Directed by Şenay Kızılateş
Karanfili Doğan was the child of a family from Lesvos who were settled in Foça as part of the ‘exchange’ of Greek Muslim and Turkish Christian populations in the 1920s. Doğan, aka Badovoğlan, spent his entire life in Foça. For years he earned his living as the driver of a horse-drawn carriage, but then protests started to occur all over the world, including in Turkey… While the tale of how Karanfilli Doğan came to abandon his profession as a carriage driver can be considered a victory for animal rights activists, some may see it as a tragic tale of the loss of cultural heritage. In Şenay Kızılateş’s short documentary, Karanfilli Doğan reminisces about the past, and viewers can listen to his stories accompanied by photos documenting the history of Foça’s cultural past.
Born in Ardahan in 1967, Şenay Kızılateş grew up in Ardahan and Izmir. In addition to studying sociology, Kızılateş received training in photography and spent many years working in the theater. She has also participated in numerous cinema workshops. and has shot two short fiction films, Choose Me, Me" and Insufficient Balance. In addition to The Last Coachman, which was screened in the short film competition section of the 8th Turkish World Documentary Film Festival, she has also directed the short docs Hayyam (2023) and Temran (2024), which received an award for Best Film in the Çarpışan Aramalar section of the 14th Sinepark Short Film Festival.
