FINALIST KARDEŞ TÜRKÜLER: 30 YEARS WITH SONGS OF FRATERNITY Kardeş Türküler: 30 Yılın Öyküsü Directed by Çayan Demirel, Ayşe Çetinbaş Doc. | 106 min. | 2025 | with English subtitles The documentary is a feature-length project that chronicles the musical and political journey of Kardeş Türküler, which began within the Boğaziçi University Folklore Club in 1993. It presents a kind of chronicle of "togetherness"—a fraternity of cultures and languages that cannot be divided by borders, encompassing children, women, trees, and rivers. Not only languages, but history, culture, poetry, writers, and artists meet on the stage. This film brings forward for the first time the 30-year-old story of Kardeş Türküler as they navigate and reflect through their music the political and social realities of Türkiye's recent history. Selected Festivals and Awards Adana Golden Boll Film Festival, Türkiye (2025): Special Jury Prize Çayan DEMİREL and Ayşe ÇETİNBAŞ Çayan Demirel (Istanbul, 1977), after graduating from the faculty of economics, started working on documentaries with oral history projects. In 2006 he completed his first documentary '38' about Dersim Massacre and then he founded Surela Film Production in 2009. 'Prison Number 5: 1980-84' directed by Demirel in 2009 won Best Documentary Award from various festivals. In 2013 he directed the documentary 'Dr. Şivan' telling Sait Kırmızıtoprak who was the MD and also one of the leaders of Kurdish movement. And in 2015 he directed 'Bakur' together with Ertuğrul Mavioğlu. Ayşe Çetinbaş (Germany, 1979) completed her BA in Economics at Istanbul University in 2002. After she received her MA in European Public Policy at Greenwich University, she started as production assistant at various national and international documentary film projects. During 2008-2014 she was the member of executive board of International 1001 Documentary Film Festival held by BSB (Association of Documentary Filmmakers in Turkey). Ayşe Çetinbas, who has provided production services to various international TV channels, newspapers and magazines, has also been one of the founder of Surela Film Production. She produced ‘Prison Nr.5: 1980-84’ (2009), ‘My Child’ (2013), ‘Dr.Şivan’ (2013), ‘North’ (2015) at Surela Film Production. ‘Yıldız Alpar: From Bedii Raks Till Today’ (2011) is the first documentary she directed   FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2025 7:30 p.m. Goethe-Institut Boston 170 Beacon Street GET YOUR DAILY PASS With the Daily Pass you can watch any or all the films screened on this day.