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FUTURE LASTS FOREVER

by Özcan Alper

synopsis

An achingly reflective road movie, tracing a young Turkish woman’s voyage to find her Kurdish lover, who has left to take up the fight of his people. Sumru, an ethnomusicologist armed with a tape recorder, decides to find and record the elegies, or testimonies, of Kurdish survivors of Turkish atrocities. These are eloquently delivered, mostly by women whose men have been killed — often right before their eyes. But the underlying reason for Sumru’s trip is to find the man who claimed her heart.

international title: Future Lasts Forever
original title: Gelecek Uzun Surer
country: Turkey, France, Germany
year: 2011
genre: fiction
directed by: Özcan Alper
film run: 108'
release date: IE 24/02/2012, FR 18/04/2012
screenplay: Özcan Alper
cast: Gaye Gursel, Durukan Ordu, Sarkis Seropyan, Osman Karakoc, Erdal Kirik
cinematography by: Feza Caldiran
film editing: Ayhan Ergürsel, Thomas Balkenhol, Özcan Alper, Umut Sakallioglu
art director: Tolunay Turkoz
music: Mustafa Biber
producer: Ersin Celik, Soner Alper
production: Arizona Films Productions, unafilm, Nar Film/Kadıköy
distributor: Arizona Films Distribution

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