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Taskafa, Stories of the Street

Synopsis

Takafa is a documentary essay, a film about memory and the most necessary forms of belonging, through a search for the role played in the city by Istanbul´s street dogs and their relationship to its human populations. Despite several major attempts by Istanbul´s rulers, politicians and planners over the last 400 years to exterminate them, the city´s street dogs have persisted thanks to an enduring alliance with widespread civilian communities, which recognize and defend their right to co-exist. Takafa is structured around readings by internationally acclaimed storyteller, essayist, and critic John Berger. The film opens a window on the contested relationships between power and the public, community and categorisation (in location and identity), and the ongoing struggle / resistance against a single way of seeing and being.

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Details

Year: 2013
Type of film: Features
Running time: 66 mins
Format: HD
Director: Andrea Luka Zimmerman 1st Feature
Producer: Gulen Guler
Editor: Alper Sen
Screenwriter: Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Gulen Guler
Director of Photography: Andrea Luka Zimmerman

Genre

Experimental

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Yalan Dunya Film Yapim Ltd.

Mumhane Cad. Nimet Han 45
9-10 Karakoy, Beyoglu 34425
Istanbul
Turkey
Fax: +90 245 9032

gulen@yalandunya.biz gulengulerhurley@hotmail.com

Andrea Luka Zimmerman

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London E2 8GH

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