{"id":5094,"date":"2023-10-22T05:22:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T09:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/?p=5094"},"modified":"2023-10-25T21:44:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T01:44:50","slug":"tearing-walls-down-by-serif-cicek-and-hebun-polat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/tearing-walls-down-by-serif-cicek-and-hebun-polat\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Tearing Walls Down&#8221; by Serif \u00c7i\u00e7ek and Heb\u00fbn Polat"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5094\" class=\"elementor elementor-5094\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c3cca30 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c3cca30\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-48f9d5f\" data-id=\"48f9d5f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-21f2cca elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"21f2cca\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Tearing Walls Down<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-f3cc3db elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"f3cc3db\" 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data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-82dd06c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"82dd06c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u015eERIF \u00c7I\u00c7EK and HEB\u00dbN POLAT<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>Bakur\/Turkey and Germany, 2023<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>Kurmanci and Turkish, with English subtitles<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>Documentary<\/strong><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>50 minutes<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-e5fad2b\" data-id=\"e5fad2b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-614299f elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"614299f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"609\" src=\"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/TWD-still-5-1024x779.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-5756\" alt=\"Aysel Tugluk in Tearing Walls Down\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/TWD-still-5-1024x779.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/TWD-still-5-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/TWD-still-5-768x585.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/TWD-still-5-1536x1169.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/TWD-still-5.jpg 1784w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4e0c67a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4e0c67a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-91df431\" data-id=\"91df431\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-be26add elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"be26add\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Synopsis:\u00a0<\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Turkey, opposition politicians who oppose violence, agitation and repression are dismissed, persecuted, or imprisoned. Especially since November 4, 2016, the AKP government has imprisoned hundreds of opposition politicians or forced them into exile in an attempt to silence them. This film features four Kurdish women politicians, Figen Y\u00fcksekda\u011f, G\u00fcltan K\u0131\u015fanak, Aysel Tu\u011fluk, and Sibel Yi\u011fitalp, whose \u201ccrime\u201d was to struggle for a hopeful and pluralistic world against an antidemocratic government.<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>Directors&#8217; biographies:<\/strong><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6174\" src=\"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/oldsite\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Sherif-Cicek_cropped-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Sherif-Cicek_cropped-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Sherif-Cicek_cropped.jpg 456w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/>Serif \u00c7i\u00e7ek<\/strong>, born in 1992 in Diyarbakir, worked on numerous film projects in Istanbul as assistant to the production designer and assistant to the director. In 2017 and 2018, in Rojava\/ North and East Syria, he collaborated with the <a href=\"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/oldsite\/\/rojava-film-commune\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rojava Film Commune.<\/a> He then moved to Germany and worked as a director and producer for Art Records Production. With Art Records, he has directed and produced numerous music videos and TV programs. He serves as the European representative of the Rojava Film Commune. His first documentary,<\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/oldsite\/\/prison-or-exile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i> Prison or Exile<\/i><\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2021), was previously screened by the New York Kurdish Film Festival.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5757\" src=\"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/oldsite\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/TWD-Hebun-Polat-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hebun Polat\" width=\"200\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/TWD-Hebun-Polat-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/TWD-Hebun-Polat-830x1024.jpg 830w, https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/TWD-Hebun-Polat-768x947.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/TWD-Hebun-Polat.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Heb\u00fbn Polat,<\/strong> also born in 1992 in Diyarbakir, studied philosophy at Istanbul University and now works in cinema and TV. <em>Welatek Heb\u00fb<\/em> (There Was a Country, 2018) was his first short film. He did camera work for the film <a href=\"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/oldsite\/\/kobane-by-ozlem-yasar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Kobane<\/em><\/a> (2022). For <em>Tearing Walls Down<\/em>, he headed the team in Turkey\/Bakur.<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>Link to the trailer<\/strong><\/p><p>You can watch the film trailer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uHa5_9-UtcE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ec78ecd elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"ec78ecd\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b92e3a4\" data-id=\"b92e3a4\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5c41821 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"5c41821\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">NYKFF7 Screening: Sunday, October 22, 6pm<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-02db3e5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"02db3e5\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ef0e0f8\" data-id=\"ef0e0f8\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-361db57 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"361db57\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u015eerif \u00c7i\u00e7ek and Heb\u00fbn Polat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,169],"tags":[145,141,139],"class_list":["post-5094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cinema","category-nykff7-films","tag-hebun-polat","tag-nykff7","tag-serif-cicek"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5094"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7705,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5094\/revisions\/7705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}