With the festival more than halfway done as of Thursday night, Bezar's “Min Dit” was among the debut features that stood out in the competition, considering the reaction of the audience, who gave the film a lengthy standing ovation.
Following a press conference after the showing of the movie, which is an independent production, young moviemaker Bezar noted that the movie was shot in 2007, yet was only able to make it to the screen for this year's festival. Stating that the cast of the movie as well as some in the crew of the production did not earn any money from the project, he further said his family financially supported the production of the movie and his mother sold her house for the film. “I did not make the movie for the festival. I did not even know whether it would be shown or not. I just wanted to tell the story to people,” he said and added he did not know if the movie will be shown in theaters.
The Germany-based director was born and lived in Turkey until he was nine, and then moved to Germany with his family.
While the movie was applauded by a majority of the audience, a small group of festivalgoers accused it of being one-sided, claiming that it was propaganda.
Filmed in its entirety in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır and featuring dialogue in both Kurdish and Turkish, “Min Dit” follows the story of two children whose parents die during an armed clash in Diyarbakır.
