Turkish Film to Show in Hackney

A TURKISH FILM by award-winning director Hüseyin Karabey and featured in the Berlin Film Festival is to be shown in Dalston Hackney this Saturday (5 December) at the Rio Cinema.

The second long reel film ‘Come to My Voice’ (Sesime Gel) was also shown at the Kurdish Film Festival in London, with the support of Hackney Film Club, it will show for a second time, but this time at a local cinema.

‘Come to My Voice’ showing will be at 15.15 this Saturday. Tickets are priced at £3 for Hackney Library member and £6 for non-members.

What is the film about?

In a snowy Kurdish mountain village, in the east of Turkey, an old woman Berfé and her young granddaughter Jiyan are troubled when the only man in the household, Temo, the son of one and the father of the other, is arrested and taken into custody by the local gendarmerie. The Commanding Officer has got the information that the villagers are hiding guns from them. It is announced that all the men in the village will be kept arrested until their family resigns and hands over the guns they are hiding…..

You’ll have to watch to find out what happens.