Güneşköy - Asmin Film Production

About Film

A group of students and academicians from METU Ankara set up a cooperative to encourage people who are disconnected with the land to ecologic life and organic farming. Besides, they have been doing this in such harsh climate as Central Anatolia where there is little agriculture with low rates of production. Since 2000, they have been trying to develop a greenhouse type which can be run with natural energy, used in the rural area, economical and ecologically applicable. Professor Gönül, who calls herself a Güneşköy volunteer, the leader of the work, Professor Ali, are teachers in the department of Chemistry at METU. These days, they are pondering on the idea of establishing a lasting relationship and a language with the villagers.

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Movie Quotes

Ali: We still have time. There are still people living in the rural areas. Can we make their lives better and more qualified, and then benefit from that? I mean, my dream is how we can create that mutual relationship.

Sinan: We used to sow on a shallow bed. Then, we decided to change the method with my professor. Now, there is a difference between shallow and elevated bed. That is, the production has increased.

Ali: Sinan learnt that. Nezir learnt that. There are women who worked here.

Ali: Creating a new world culture. Can we create something as an alternative to capitalism, to the big capital market? Can we create a life style? My dream is to realize this eve in a small scale and see the results. Now, we are trying to do that within our power.

Purpose, Approach

With their structuring, crowd and chaos making our lives a torture most of the time, are big cities our only alternatives? Can there be a conscious and preferred country life in our country too? Is it possible to live without being apart from the nature or being carried away by the consumption frenzy? Can there be an urban farmer? Are all these running away from the city, these pursuits a kind of trend? We think aloud with the people whose lives we witness. We are reconsidering the cities we live in. We ask if it is possible to build a new living space with our own color and shape apart from the models that are presented to us.

In a world where everything is constructed upon the urban life are these life trials utopic?

In our narration which we used the witness method basically, we will have questions that we seek answers. Is it possible for people who have spent so much time in big cities to get rid of this urbanism that stick on them?

The work done is very important but how and what is the source of the responses of practical life?

How do people who have little or no contact with the nature have a start in the country? Is this a reunion or just a struggle with the nature? Is the word ‘it’s not the nature that needs us but we need the nature’ valid in every situation?

Is it possible for the ones who fought or struggled with the nature all the time and had a public memory to have another relationship in an instant?

Our film focuses on the ones who leave the city in order to ‘have a collective life in the country’. Although we take a stand with the ‘another life is possible’ idea, our attitude to these stories do not show it. In these life style trials, we not only witness the things created but also show the things that do not work or contradict.

Crew

Yapım – Production

TRT Belgesel Kanalı – TRT Tourism and Documentary Channel

Yönetmen, Metin Yazarı – Written and Directed by Bingöl Elmas

Görüntü Yönetmeni – Director of Photography Koray Kesik

Kameraman – Cameraman Mehmet Eren Bozbaş

Kurgu – Editing Uğur Hamidoğulları, Ali İlhan

Ses – Sound Özkan Arınkal

Müzik – Music Taner Sarf Yapım

Yönetim Asistanı – Assistants to the Director Sultan İlhan, Özgür Küçüktülü

Görsel Tasarım ve Jenerik -Color Correction and Generic Desing Ali İlhan

Ses ve Görüntü Deşifresi Aliye Düşünmez, Sultan İlhan