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On the last days of May 2013, the Taksim Square at the center of Istanbul witnessed one of the largest civic uprisings in the history of modern Turkey. Millions took to the streets in a movement triggered by the local authorities’ attempt to demolish Gezi Park – the only remaining green area in the center of the city – by bulldozing the trees in order to build a shopping mall in its place. This documentary narrates how people from very diverse lifestyles and ideologies fought together to convert Gezi into a model of the world they dreamt of.
TUR, 105 min, 2014, Turkish with English subtitles
Regie Reyan Tuvi
Q & A with Ayşe Çavdar & Diren Demir
Part of 6. Berliner Herbstsalon GEZİ – TEN YEARS AFTER. Ein Prolog im Frühling.
The series GeZinema was created in collaboration with the H2020 MSCA-IF project, VIDEOACT, a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 101025524.
