What is home? The place where you live? The place where you were born? Is it where you’re comfortable and most enrooted? It’s hard to find an unambiguous definition. People have been migrating forever, be it voluntarily or not. Usually, the departure is connected to a hope for a better future. The films TURKISH RIVIERA and DAS RADL DER ZEIT oppose the desires for either a new or the old home. (Afsun Moshiry)
A videocassette is inserted: A toddler in a paddling pool somewhere on the beach. Parents and grandparents scurry around. Pictures of Senem's first visit to Turkey, so she tells us. This is the beginning of a search for a home. Through interviews with her parents and grandparents, the filmmaker takes us through the ups and downs of the life of three generations of Turkish guest workers in Germany. The stories are accompanied by images of everyday life in Turkey. Today the family has returned to their homeland, only Senem has remained in Germany. Where does she belong? Sober reflection meets poetic collage, trying to find peace in the space between here and there.… >>>
Pia grew up in a ditch in the north of Carinthia. At the age of 17, she left her home. She rejected to speak the language and dialect for a while. Then, after some time, she started to listen again to the stories from her place of origin, and started observing how nature evolves through the seasons. Farms and Houses are disappearing and left abandoned. This film is a requiem for a place that is marked by past existences and is slowly turning back to the forest it once was. Stories of death are told. Accompanied by a Carinthian song, the film rediscovers its own language and origin, reveals the repressed, and uses this conflict to deal with the unrecognizability of one’s own identity.… >>>
- Director: Pia Wilma Wurzer
