
Hold Still + Shorts + Q&A
N/A 120 mins
27 years and counting... Families whose sons and brothers disappeared at the hands of state forces in the Dargeçit district of Mardin in 1995 are fighting for truth and justice within the Turkish judicial system with the help of their lawyer and the Human Rights Association. They travel for hours to each hearing of the trial, which finally began in 2015. While breaking the state’s wall of impunity may seem like an impossible task, “the truth is out there for those who want to see it.”
Plus documentary short HABIBULLAH; Habibullah Zandi has been singing for decades, but as a local mullah tries to silence his song, he proves that music and poetry can also be sacred, and documentary short A PICTURE FOR CALMNESS; Three young men are trying to create a fake asylum case through (Kolbari) peasantry in order to obtain asylum outside Kurdistan (Iraq).