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Aether

Italy, Turkey, 2019, 81 minutes, Colour, No dialogue


2019 Antalya Golden Orange FF; Special Jury Award (National Documentary Competition) Duhok FF; Special Jury Award (Kurdish Cinema Competition)

Director:  Rûken Tekeş

Cinematography: Ute Freund, Deniz Eyüboğlu, Merle Jothe, Andres Lizana Prado
Editing: Marco Spoletini, Rûken Tekeş
Music: Diler Özer, Metehan Dada
Production: Sarya Film

A filmmaker’s 21-day homage to capture the ethereal essence of her unique ancient homeland soon to be submerged by a hydroelectric dam, Aether is instinctively carried and driven by emotions, feelings and observations. It reveals the place’s truths following its own unencumbered chronology. An invitation to a free-minded voyage into nature’s cycle of birth-death-rebirth in the oldest continuously inhabited place on Earth, Hasankeyf.