İsmet Arasan

Directed by Suha Arın in 1979, Tahtacı Fatma is one of the earliest documentaries on the ethnic Tahtacı community. In an interview conducted in 1999, Suha Arın mentions that he wished to make a follow-up film that includes updated information about their conditions as he had not been in touch since several years. However, Arın passed away in 2004 without realizing his wish. Why was Arın curious again about a community whom he already worked with twenty years earlier? The 40 Years After Fatma observes the changes which Tahtacıs went through, with the company of documentarists who worked with Suha Arın back in 1979, at their native land.

The documentary “Balkanların Türkçe Hafızası” (The Turkish Memory of the Balkans) is an effort to trace the pathway of the Turkish language in the Balkans and to set light to people living here in terms of their languages and cultural quests by focusing on the lives, art, and works of Prof. Nimetullah Hafız and Prof. Tacida Zübceviç Hafız, the Turkologists who live in Prizren, Kosovo.

The documentary “Balkanların Türkçe Hafızası” (The Turkish Memory of the Balkans) is an effort to trace the pathway of the Turkish language in the Balkans and to set light to people living here in terms of their languages and cultural quests by focusing on the lives, art, and works of Prof. Nimetullah Hafız and Prof. Tacida Zübceviç Hafız, the Turkologists who live in Prizren, Kosovo.

The documentary “Balkanların Türkçe Hafızası” (The Turkish Memory of the Balkans) is an effort to trace the pathway of the Turkish language in the Balkans and to set light to people living here in terms of their languages and cultural quests by focusing on the lives, art, and works of Prof. Nimetullah Hafız and Prof. Tacida Zübceviç Hafız, the Turkologists who live in Prizren, Kosovo.