SONGS OF FRATERNITY
Director: ÇAYAN DEMİREL-AYŞE ÇETİNBAŞ
Time: 106’
Year of Production: 2025
Language: KURDÎ-TIRKÎ-ERMENKÎ-EREBÎ
Subtitle: KURDÎ-TIRKÎ-ERMENKÎ-EREBÎ
Synopsis
“Kardeş Türküler: 30 Yılın Öyküsü” is a feature-length project that tells the musical and political journey of the ‘Kardeş Türküler Project, which started within the Boğaziçi University Folklore Club in 1993… in a way a chronicle of“togetherness”, children, women, trees, rivers, a fraternity of cultures and languages that cannot be divided by borders. Not only languages, but history, culture, poetry, writers and artists meet on the stage.
Biography
Çayan Demirel was born in Istanbul in 1977. After he graduated from the faculty of economics, he started working on documentaries with oral history projects. In 2006 he completed his first documentary ’38’ about the Dêrsim Massacre and then he founded Surela Film Production in 2009. ‘Prison Number 5: 1980-84’ directed by Demirel in 2009 won Best Documentary Award from various festivals. After that, he directed the documentary ‘Dr. Şivan’ telling Sait Kırmızıtoprak who was the MD and also one of the leaders of Kurdish movement. And in 2015 he directed ‘Bakur’ together with Ertuğrul Mavioğlu.
Born in 1979 in Germany, Ayşe Çetinbaş completed her BA in Economics at Istanbul University in 2002. After she received her MA in European Public Policy at Greenwich University, she started as production assistant at various national and international documentary film projects. During 2008-2014 she was the member of executive board of International 1001 Documentary Film Festival held by BSB (Association of Documentary Filmmakers in Turkey). Ayşe Çetinbas, who has provided production services to various international TV channels, newspapers and magazines, was also one of the founders of Surela Film Production. She produced ‘Prison Nr.5: 1980-84’ (2009), ‘My Child’ (2013), ‘Dr.Şivan’ (2013), ‘Bakur’ (2015) at Surela Film Production. ‘Yıldız Alpar: From Bedii Raks Till Today’ (2011) is the first documentary she directed.