UNTOLD STORY OF FATMA KAYACI

FATMA KAYACI'NIN BİLİNMEYEN HİKAYESİ

By Orhan TEKEOGLU

MEDYA TON - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2021


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SILK ROADS AWARDS 2021
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NUOVA MONDI 2021
JURY AWARD
TREBINJE 2021
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TURKISH FRANKFURT FILM FESTIVAL 2021
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    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Drama, Environmental, Documentary
    • Countries
    • TURKEY
    • Languages
    • TURKISH
    • Duration
    • 40 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Orhan TEKEOGLU
    • Writer(s)
    • Orhan TEKEOGLU
    • Producer(s)
    • Nurdan TEKEOGLU (MEDYA TON)
    • Synopsis
    • Year 1985. Everybody talks about 16-year old Ali Kayacı who died by falling into the fire, while staying with his aunt on the mountain pasture of 2000 metres. Ali’s step mother, their neighbour Aunt Emine say that the kid falling victim to this accident was because of Fatma Kayacı’s neglect.After this painful incident, when Fatma Kayacı hears about the accusations from her relatives and neighbors, she resents them tremendously and leaves her village not to see anyone from the relatives again.
      Fatma Kayacı starts to live in a stonehouse on mountain pastures, away from people. She names every tree she plants “Ali” as if she wants to keep him alive. The surroundings of the house become a forest. She says the incident took place in 1985, when she was around 50 and was living with the son of Abdurrahman brother, Ali Kayacı, who was 16 at the time and suffered from seizures, on the Karakısrak mountain pasture that is 2000 m high in Tonya.“As every morning, we left the house with our two cows and our calf for grazing. I brought my cows back home. I opened the door of the house, saw Ali in flames.