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National Documentary Competition

HOLD STILL
DARGEÇİT

• Director: Berke Baş
• TÜRKİYE / 2024 / DCP / Colour / 82’ / Turkish, Kurdish; Turkish, English s.t.

• Director of Photography: Berke Baş
• Editing: Catherine Gouze, Eytan İpeker, Berke Baş
• With: Erdal Kuzu, Abdülaziz Altınkaynak, Hayat Altınkaynak, Hazni Doğan, Veysel Vesek, Mehmet Coşkun, Ahmet Akyön
• Producer: Enis Köstepen
• Production Co.: Hafıza Merkezi, Liman Film, inHouse projects
• World Sales: Liman Film

2024 İstanbul Best Documentary

27 years and counting... Families whose sons and brothers disappeared at the hands of state forces in the Dargeçit district of Mardin in 1995 are fighting for truth and justice within the Turkish judicial system with the help of their lawyer and the Human Rights Association. They travel for hours to each hearing of the trial, which finally began in 2015. While breaking the state’s wall of impunity may seem like an impossible task, “the truth is out there for those who want to see it.”

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.