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GERMANY SONGS - ALMANYA TÜRKÜLERİ
DEUTSCHLANDLIEDER - ALMANYA TÜRKÜLERİ

• Director: Nedim Bora Hazar
• GERMANY, TURKEY / 2023 / DCP / Colour / 89’ / German, Turkish; English, Turkish s.t.

• Screenplay: Nedim Bora Hazar
• Director of Photography: Jörg Gruber
• Editing: Levent Çelebi
• With: Metin Türköz, Eko Fresh, Sema Moritz, Özay Fecht
• Producer: Mustafa Dok
• Production Co.: Bredok Film Production
• World Sales: Bredok Film Production

This film is about a dozen beautiful songs by immigrants from Turkey in Germany. The singers and composers –from an 85-year-old folk singer to a young feminist rapper– tell the 60-year story of Turks and Kurds in Germany episodically through their songs. They are accompanied by a rock band, a string quartet, and ethnic instrumentalists performing together between 2021 and 2022 on renowned stages in Germany and in Istanbul. Director Nedim Hazar, the lead vocalist of a 1980s German-Turkish rock band, filmed this unique concert tour, recorded the songs, and spoke with the musicians, including his son Eko Fresh, one of Germany’s most acclaimed rappers.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.