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Award-winning Turkish director Özcan Alper’s second film “Future Lasts Forever” (“Gelecek Uzun Sürer“) will hit screens in Turkey today. The film had its world premier at the Toronto International Film Festival in September this year.
The only Turkish representative at the event this year, Alper’s film, starring Gaye Gürsel, Durukan Ordu, Sarkis Seropyan, Osman Karakoç and Erdal Kirik, was shown in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the festival, a new addition to the program this year.
Sarkis Seropyan, who plays Antranik in the film (pictured above), is the editor of the Armenian pages of Istanbul based bilingual weekly Agos. Also among the film’s cast and crew is Assistant Director Lusin Dink, cousin of Turkish-Armenian journalist and editor of Agos Hrant Dink who was assassinated in 2007, and Dink’s youngest daughter, Sera Dink, who worked on graphic design.
As reported by Today’s Zaman: Shot in a range of locations across Turkey, including İstanbul, Diyarbakır, Van and the southeastern Kurdish province of Hakkari, the story, which touches upon Turkey’s ethnic Turkish and Kurdish tensions, follows the tale of a young ethnomusicologist, Sumru, who leaves İstanbul in order to conduct research for her doctorate in what turns out to be a much longer trip than she could ever have imagined. In Dıyarbakır, where she stays for three months, her new acquaintances speak of an “unnamed war.” Searching for testimony, Sumru, however, finds herself having to confront unpleasant memories from her own past, which she had tried hard to keep buried.
A Turkish, German and French co-production, the film also references Sourp Giragos Armenian Church in Diyarbakır which was restored and opened a couple of weeks before.
