From Far Away

Aus der Ferne

Turkey seen through the eyes of a filmmaker who rediscovers a country where he spent part of his childhood. Turkish-German director Thomas Arslan himself held the camera to record a journey he undertook over two months in 2005 that led him from Instanbul east to Doğubayazit near the Iranian border. His beautiful, carefully framed long-takes let us observe how people, towns and landscape slowly change as we follow his unconventional route.

Germany | 2005 | col | 89 mins | dir. Thomas Arslan

Berlin International Film Festival 2006