The documentary titled ‘Two Locks of Hair: The
Missing Girls of Dersim,’ which sheds light on the
painful incidents of the 1938 Dersim Operation,
four 80-year-old women tell of the trauma they
experienced during the tragedy. The film will be
shown during the International Istanbul Film
Festival next month. Concomitant with an
increasing questioning of Turkey’s official history,
a new documentary on the women who were lost
following the 1938 Dersim Operation seeks
to illuminate a dark period in Turkish history.
March 23, 2010

Kazim Öz travels with pastoral Shawaks from
Dersim villages to Dersim mountains when
spring starts with heavy rain. The journey that
ends at the zeniths of mountains starts again in
autumn after long working days during the hot
summer in the highlands. Shawaks get on the
road to return their village this time. After weeks of
travelling with herds, Shawaks reach their village
and the cycle begins from the start. Stating an
aesthetic and creative sentence about human,
nature, and labor, The Last Season: Shawaks
invites the viewer to an unusual journey

Director Hüseyin Karabey, who has been
selected at the 63. International Cannes Film
Festival with his film project ‘Sesime Gel’ (Come
to my voice), is adapting a real story in Kurdistan
in 1980’s into a film. Karabey was selected by the
‘Cinefondation-Atelier’ of the festival with his film
project. There was no Turkish or Kurdish film at
this year edition of the French festival.