Ümit Kıvanç

The story of two people and a machine.

Eylem is a young woman. She lives in a small Kurdish town and works at a rug workshop. She thinks her nose is too large, and dreams of having cosmetic surgery. However, one of her brothers has joined the political organization, and many others from the same town have died in clashes. Will Eylem manage to find a way out of this challenging dilemma?

One night, a law student wakes up from his sleep on a bus ride and strikes up a conversation with the bus driver.

What kind of a person was Ahmet Kaya? What kind of music did he compose? How did he become a controversial pop icon? What did he think and say about homeland, democracy, human rights and Kurdish reality? and what did we do to him?

The film ‘System Memory Too Low For Words’ devised and produced by Ümit Kıvanç, which transforms Hrant Dink’s words to color, shape and sound, lays before us the ‘errors’ in the ‘system’ which did not allow space for Hrant Dink and his words.

Kazim Koyuncu was one of the most important musicians in Turkey, having introduced a universal sound to the Karadeniz Lazuri music. He died during treatment for lung cancer in 2005. It is generally assumed that the Chernobyl disaster was the cause of Koyuncu's cancer, as believed by many citizens of the country. Now, Kazim's documentary is out. More importantly, now it cannot be destroyed. Even after generations, people will know how Kazim was as a person, how he lived the "other way", how he opposed the system and the life itself. —Turhan Karadeniz

Being a project of Madımak Massacre Memorial Centre, this documentary is so far the most extensive work on Madımak Massacre. With the interviews of 127 people, archive footage and testimonies, the four-hour long documentary covers the massacre by diving into historical and ideological motives behind it. In this way, it presents a panorama of the oppression against the Alevi community and their growing struggle in recent history of Turkey.