The Walkers
Realizador Deniz ?engenç
Países Turkey
Duração 51 min
Sinopse
Turkish Air Force's warplanes bombed an area near to Roboski village in Turkey, near to Iraqi border on 28th of December 2011 and 34 civilians were killed. On 1st of September 2012 (on International Day of Peace), conscientious objector Halil Savda started to walk from Roboski to the capital city of Turkey, Ankara, for peace and justice. The Walkers is the film of this 1300 km walk, being on the road and the road itself. Although the walk was Halil Savda's own decision, dozens of people joined him on the way to Ankara and they created a civil movement. The road became a space to be together, to become an individual and to become together even though they come from different environments. Serap, a woman coming from the man world of the Black Sea region, İbrahim, a young man who joined the army by his own will in order to “kill the Kurdish terrorists” and was taken prisoner by the PKK afterwards, Emine, a translator who has lived in the UK for 20 years, İsmail, a man who has lived in Germany for 25 years and decided to come back home by walking, Evindar, a singer from Adana, Abdullah, a witness to the murder of Uğur Kaymaz (a 12 years old boy who was shot to death by the Turkish army in 2004), Munzur, who believes militarism is based on manhood, and of course, the first walker, Halil, who showed us that even walking is a way of resisting… The search for peace and justice that brings together lots of people from different worlds, reactions, sometimes passivity and ordinary routine of lives of the people encountered on the way to Ankara and people who walk for what they believe while track engines accompany them as the music of the road... The Walkers is the film of encounters, encounters of the people who believe that their aim is growing when it is shared with the others. And the director adopted a participant observatory methodology and walked with them for 450 km. She was both a participant and an observer who tried to balance collective and individual experiences while shooting this documentary.
Turkish Air Force's warplanes bombed an area near to Roboski village in Turkey, near to Iraqi border on 28th of December 2011 and 34 civilians were killed. On 1st of September 2012 (on International Day of Peace), conscientious objector Halil Savda started to walk from Roboski to the capital city of Turkey, Ankara, for peace and justice. The Walkers is the film of this 1300 km walk, being on the road and the road itself. Although the walk was Halil Savda's own decision, dozens of people joined him on the way to Ankara and they created a civil movement. The road became a space to be together, to become an individual and to become together even though they come from different environments. Serap, a woman coming from the man world of the Black Sea region, İbrahim, a young man who joined the army by his own will in order to “kill the Kurdish terrorists” and was taken prisoner by the PKK afterwards, Emine, a translator who has lived in the UK for 20 years, İsmail, a man who has lived in Germany for 25 years and decided to come back home by walking, Evindar, a singer from Adana, Abdullah, a witness to the murder of Uğur Kaymaz (a 12 years old boy who was shot to death by the Turkish army in 2004), Munzur, who believes militarism is based on manhood, and of course, the first walker, Halil, who showed us that even walking is a way of resisting… The search for peace and justice that brings together lots of people from different worlds, reactions, sometimes passivity and ordinary routine of lives of the people encountered on the way to Ankara and people who walk for what they believe while track engines accompany them as the music of the road... The Walkers is the film of encounters, encounters of the people who believe that their aim is growing when it is shared with the others. And the director adopted a participant observatory methodology and walked with them for 450 km. She was both a participant and an observer who tried to balance collective and individual experiences while shooting this documentary.