Masuk
Masuk
Cevahir Çokbilir
Turkey / 2012 / 18'
Masuk
Cevahir Çokbilir
Turkey / 2012 / 18'

In a remote village in Anatolia, Aşık Hasan tries to preserve oral culture in a visual age where even written culture is dying out. This is a desolate village, abandoned by its people who left for the loneliness of the city. In the past, it was a village that crowded together to listen to Aşık sings and play. Now it lives on through the Aşık and the more than 500 traditional songs in his memory. The song and their tales are being cut short…

Director

Cevahir Çokbilir

He was born in 1988 in Gaziantep, Turkey. He attended the University of Ankara, Faculty of Communication Science, graduating from the Department of Radio, TV and Film. He currently works as a director.

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