Güneşin - Asmin Film Production

About Film

Güneşin is after the knowledge of the old. She is trying to revive our values even the villagers gave up and forgot. At the same time, she is trying to share ecological life. They organize ‘Life in Nature Workshops’ for the people coming from the city in the earthen-roofed Ecological Life Center they have built.

Güneşin lives both the city and the country life together in the village. Of course there is a never ending work cycle in the village like olives, wood or harvest. In addition to all these, she has been carrying out the activities of the Wheat Association. While conducting the ‘Saving the Nature and Biological Diversity Act’ works, she is reading the laws and legislations and doing research as an environmentalist. At the same time she is trying to make up to her neighbor Aunt Hatice whom she has neglected. When she goes to the door, she becomes a villager but when she is on the computer, she turns to the urban life. With this documentary, we witness Güneşin’s and her friends’ dual lives.

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Movie Quotes

Güneşin “I think, at the bottom of every cruelty and all actions of injustice that mankind do each other such as man to woman adult to child, strong to weak lies the distortion of the relationship between man and nature. How can we be compassionate? How can we live together without destroying each other? Before, people were learning all of this from the nature. Now, it doesn’t work like that.They don’t care and also the nature is really being destroyed. It loses its ability to teach. In the past, people were living for each other. Actually it’s still in this way in our village. Everyone lives for each other. Instead of surviving as an individual, their priority is the society itself, they work for it. Everyone works for the prosperity of the village. They know that in the end, it returns to all.”

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