Depuis, je vole

A sixty-year-old man, who grew up in a nomadic tribe in the mountains of southeast Turkey, recalls moments from his youth that have shaped his life. He takes us back to his idyllic childhood with his mother, his first love found in a cotton field and lost in the woods, and the mistreatment suffered at the hands of the police, in a cold and dark place.

"Vakıf, a sixty-year-old Kurd who grew up in a nomadic tribe on the mountains of south-eastern Turkey, remembers moments from his youth that marked his life. He goes back on his idyllic childhood with his mother, his first love found in a cotton field and lost in the woods, and the abuse suffered from the police in a cold, dark place. In Aylin Gökmen’s suggestive short film, faces, landscapes, and words blend and give life to the heart-rending account of a man whose memories over time get impregnated with an ancestral value; their very persistence helped him endure the harshest moments of imprisonment. A tender cotton flower detaching from its stem and a kiss that tastes like pomegranate accompany the story towards an open, liberating ending in which darkness and the sorrow for all that was lost open up with lightness onto a new light."
(Festival dei Popoli)