Aytaç: I want to eat vegetables without chemical fertilizers. Don’t I have a right to do so? Now, you have to fight for that. Also, I want the climate not to change. Likewise, I do not want nuclear power plants in my country, in the neighboring countries, in Europe or in the world. They constantly explode. I don’t want to eat genetically modified food. That means there is something wrong.

Aytaç: We thought we needed to do something. Then we set up Yeryüzü Association.

Aytaç: We have a dream. We want to build an Eco Village. We set a 10-year time limit for that. This is not easy. Leaving the city is really difficult. Maybe we will lose interest or somebody from our group will lose interest, we do not know that yet. Therefore, the best thing is to experience. Hence, we need to bethroth with the land immediately, and then get engaged. After that we will get married. These traditions are there for a reason.

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.

TRT Belgesel Kanalı – TRT Tourism and Documentary Channel

Yönetmen, Metin Yazarı – Written and Directed by

Bingöl Elmas

Kameraman – Camera

1. Eren Bozbaş, Sultan İlhan

Kurgu – Editing

Uğur Hamidoğulları, Ali İlhan

Müzik – Music

Taner Sarf

Yapım , Yönetim Asistanı – Assistants to the Director

Sultan İlhan

Görsel Tasarım ve Jenerik – Color Correction and Generic Desing

Ali İlhan

Ses ve Görüntü Deşifresi – Sound and Image Design

Aliye Düşünmez, Sultan İlhan

Çeviriler – Translation

İngilizce- English: Gülşen Altun

Rusça – Rusia : Emine Beldağ

Almanca- German: Veronika Hartman

Altyazı Uygulama – Subtitle Application

Onur Çakır

Muhasebe – Accounting

Metin Açar

Arşiv Görüntüleri

Sevgi Okay

© TRT Belgesel Kanalı  – 2012

Aytaç Tolga Timur, Ceyda Saygıner Falay, Fatma Denizci, Emet Değirmenci

Katkılarından Dolayı Teşekkürler

Belgesel Sinemacılar Birliği (BSB) – The Association of Documentary Filmmakers in Turkey (BSB)

Teknik Destek

Çan Film Prodüksiyon – Çan Film Production

Kutup Ayısı Belgesel Yapımlar – Kutup Ayısı Documentary Productions

Akademi Prodüksiyon- Akademi Production

Özel Teşekkür

Ayça Gülgeç, Aylan Sağlam, Belgin Döven, Murat Cenk Topuzyan,

Deniz Toka Emir, Ece Fatma Aslan,

Ege Kocahan, Ercüment Yıldırım, Gözde Cüce,

Günsel Yıldız, İdil Kışlal, İpek Keyder, İsmail Cerekmen,

Kadir Karabulut, Kandemir Sarısoy, Mehmet Gürmen,

Şandan Çakmak İlhan, Sevgi Akar, Sevil Çakmak, Umut Burcu Tasa,

Yeliz Mert, Selen Çağlayık Eloğlu, Mehmet Ali Yıldız,

Emrah Yelboğa, Arzu Yakut  ve

Zeytinburnu Tıbbi Bitkiler Bahçesi Çalışanları

Banu Uzpeder, İncilay Erdoğan, Melek Toraman,

Mehmet Aksoy, Zuhal Kaynak, Hakan Paşalı

Çiğdem Kesik, Hayriye Savaşçıoğlu ,Zeycan Elmas,

Ayfer Tokatlıoğlu, Alev Elmas Kemal Öner, Mehmet Eryılmaz,

Taner Sarf, Erdem Z. Demirkol

“Bu Program TRT tarafından Asmin Film’eyaptırılmıştır.

Pınar: Now, while buying food, people do not know where that product came from or what is the story behind. None of us do. How much work there is, how much exploitation behind or how many steps there was in that tomato, cucumber or whatever it is, we have no idea. As consumers we are isolated from all those stories behind it; we just buy and eat.

Cihan: Students decided to invade Starbucks through the end of BÜKOP, we started talking about how we could interfere with the school’s food system and create a new space besides the invasion. The idea of a farm came up then.

Handan: I think people should start change locally. Hence, what we are doing here is to change something at school. We actually want to create something schoolwide, small, and sustainable on the campus. This might be a bigger dream but here we have a mini version of it. This is, at least, a start.

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.

TRT Belgesel Kanalı – TRT Tourism and Documentary Channel

Yönetmen, Metin Yazarı – Written and Directed by

Bingöl Elmas

Kameraman – Camera

1. Eren Bozbaş, Uğur Hamidoğulları

Kurgu – Editing

Uğur Hamidoğulları, Ali İlhan

Müzik – Music

Taner Sarf

Yapım , Yönetim Asistanı – Assistants to the Director

Sultan İlhan

Görsel Tasarım ve Jenerik –Color Correction and Generic Desing

Ali İlhan

Ses ve Görüntü Deşifresi – Image and Sound Design

Aliye Düşünmez, Sultan İlhan

Çeviriler – Translation

İngilizce- English: Gülşen Altun

Rusça – Rusia : Emine Beldağ

Almanca- German: Veronika Hartman

Altyazı Uygulama – Subtitle Application

Onur Çakır

Muhasebe – Accounting

Metin Açar

Arşiv Görüntüleri

Tuğba Özbilgin, Esra Özban

© TRT Belgesel Kanalı  – 2012

Cihan Tekay, Çiğdem Artık, Handan Musabaşoğlu, Pınar Ercan, Zeynep Kadirbeyoğlu

Contributors

Acknowledgements

The Association of Documentary Filmmakers in Turkey (BSB)

Technical Support

Çan Film Production KutupAyısı Documentary Productions

Akademi Production

Special Thanks to

Emre Kaya, Cengiz Holoğlu, Olcay Bingöl,

Nalan Özdemir, Sinem Güldal, Çağrı Çevrim,

Sumru Tamer, Erdem Baçinkaya, Tuğba Özbilgin,

Fatih Tatari, Tuğba Hançer, İsmase Arı, Suat Yalçın,

Mustafa Kaba, Ezgi Hamzaçebi, Esra Özban ,Sidar İnan,

Togay, Ece, Ali, Tobias

Banu Uzpeder, İncilay Erdoğan Melek Toraman,

Mehmet Aksoy, Zuhal Kaynak, Hakan Paşalı

Murat Erün, Kemal Öner, Mehmet Eryılmaz,

Taner Sarf, Erdem Z. Demirkol

“This documentary has been produced by Asmin Film by TRT”.

Mustafa: At this point, I have a serious problem. I clearly see all the troubles that our so called civilization will bring. Let me explain this with a quotation: Even an evil mind could not have created a thing so destructive as agriculture. We have actually invaded the world with agriculture and we are creating what we call food deserts such as square miles of corn in Iowa, the USA. There is no such thing in the nature. This has been created by man and it is totally against the nature’s laws. The most serios erosion is the result of this mono cultural, big scale and conventional agriculture.

Mustafa: Permaculture is a design science. This is its simplest explanation. It is very important to highlight that permaculture is not an agricultural method, ecological method or fisheries method. It’s not a water harvest method, nor is it an alternative economy method. It is not an alternative corporate structuring method, either. It is the blending the positive reciprocal effects of all of them in a life web.

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.

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

Çeviriler – Translation

İngilizce- English: Şirin Bahar Demirel

Rusça – Rusia : Emine Beldağ

Almanca- German: Veronika Hartman

Altyazı Uygulama – Subtitle Application Onur Çakır

Muhasebe – Accounting Metin Açar

© TRT Belgesel Kanalı – 2012

Mustafa Fatih Bakır, Erkan Buğday, Saydam-Pelin Beyazıt,

Selen-Murat-Tibet Akhuy, Leyla-Ezel Beyazıt,

Dijan Albayrak, Hira Doğrul, Hazal Sıla Akduran,

Kayhan Uğur, Gözde Cüce, Mehmet Tirgil

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Belgesel Sinemacılar Birliği (BSB) – The Association of Documentary Filmmakers in Turkey (BSB)

Technical Support

Çan Film Prodüksiyon – Çan Film Production

Kutup Ayısı Belgesel Yapımlar – Kutup Ayısı Documentary Productions

Akademi Prodüksiyon- Akademi Production

Special Thanks to

Ümit Kılıçgedik, Füsun Köksal Çağrı Gürbüz,

Pınar-Mete Hacaloğlu, Yasin-Rana Sancak,Deniz Erdoğan,

Marmariç Permakültüre Giriş Kursu Katılımcıları,

Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Permakültüre Giriş Kursu Katılımcıları,

Yeşil Ev

Banu Uzpeder, İncilay Erdoğan Melek Toraman,

Mehmet Aksoy, Zuhal Kaynak, Hakan Paşalı

Murat Erün, Kemal Öner, Mehmet Eryılmaz,

Taner Sarf, Erdem Z. Demirkol “

Bu Program TRT tarafından Asmin Film’e yaptırılmıştır.

Ahmet: Not earning money; just living by. This is very important in rural life as when you start eraning money, there is no end to that. You cannot stop since the land and land income is much higher than agricultural income. The places in Aegean and Mediterranean, where the rural fabric has been destroyed are some examples to that.

Ahmet: I’m from Istanbul. I was born and raised there. I am a graduate of Istanbul Technical University. I left Istanbul when I was in Levent, which had been a very nice place in the past. After years, what we see is higher buildings and giant skyscrapers. Now, here we host people from there. I call them city sick. They are so sick of the city that they have to come here and breathe once in a while.

Ahmet: This is ecological life farm. This is the place for farm production. The main here is to produce something. There are beneficiaries. I call them shareholders.

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.

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

Çeviriler – Translation

İngilizce- English: Şirin Bahar Demirel

Rusça – Rusia : Emine Beldağ

Almanca- German: Veronika Hartman

Altyazı Uygulama – Subtitle Application Onur Çakır

Muhasebe – Accounting Metin Açar

© TRT Belgesel Kanalı – 2012

Ahmet Kizen, Hatice Aslan, Şenel Aslan,Gülcan Aslan, Müfide Kizen, Tamarra Han, Nurgül Söğüt, Çimen Koyuncu, Ayfer Aksakal

Contributors

Acknowledgements

The Association of Documentary Filmmakers in Turkey (BSB)

Dedetepe Organic Farming

Technical support

Çan Film Production

KutupAyısı Documentary Productions

Akademi Production

Special thanks to

İncilay Erdoğan

Alemdar Family: Erkan, Tamahine, Rüya, Nehir

Banu Uzpeder, Melek Toraman, Mehmet Aksoy,

Zuhal Kaynak, Hakan Paşalı

Çiğdem Kesik, Hayriye Savaşçıoğlu

Zeycan Elmas, Ayfer Tokatlıoğlu, Alev Elmas

Mehmet Eryılmaz, Taner Sarf, Erdem Z. Demirkol

This documentary has been produced by Asmin Film for TRT

Batur: Generally, there’s a perception of luxurious goods. Actually, organic products are not luxury. They are not products for one group of people, either. When they become common, their prices will decrease, too. When we have a look at the customer profile of our markets, families with children take the lead. These families are generally between 30-40 and they just had children. They have had cancer in the family or they are gourmets. Also, they are from the group we call as intellectuals. As Wheat Association, we have never regarded these markets as a trading place. We did not embrace a model like that. Unless we share the philosophy of ecological life and culture or generalize it for everyone, we do not think that the sale of organic products will increase in Turkey. People may come to the market because it is the trend. They only come for a short time but that is their mentality.

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.

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

Çeviriler – Translation

İngilizce- English: Şirin Bahar Demirel

Rusça – Rusia : Emine Beldağ

Almanca- German: Veronika Hartman

Altyazı Uygulama – Subtitle Application Onur Çakır

Muhasebe – Accounting Metin Açar

© TRT Belgesel Kanalı – 2012

Batur Şehirlioğlu, Bahri Artuğ, Serkan Kırmızı,

Şaban Burhan, Safiye Başak, Hamdiye Burhan,

Şule Şenol, Yusuf Cebeci, Alper Kul

Thanks for Their Contributions

The Association of Documentary Filmmakers in Turkey (BSB)

Technical Support

Çan Film Production – Çan Film Production, Polar Bear Documentary Productions – Polar Bear Documentary

Productions Academy Production – Academy Production

Special Thanks

Semra Bozacı Okumuş, Mine Eloğlu, Selma Yılmaz,

Özlem Çarkçıoğlu, Leyla Ünlüboy, Zerrin Cebeci,

Volkan Arslan, Gizem Altınnance, Berkay Atik,

Oya Ayman, Yeşim Aydemir, Şehnaz Sam,

Erkan Alemdar, Güneşin Aydemir, Buğday Association and Eko Pazar employees,

Banu Uzpeder, İncilay Erdoğan, Melek Toraman,

Mehmet Aksoy, Zuhal Kaynak, Hakan Paşalı,

Mehmet Eryılmaz, Selda Meral, Mustafa Ünlü,

Taner Sarf, Özge Gökçe, Erdem Z. Demirkol

“This program was commissioned by TRT and produced by Asmin Film.

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.

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.

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

Çeviriler – Translation

İngilizce- English: Şirin Bahar Demirel

Rusça – Rusia : Emine Beldağ

Almanca- German: Veronika Hartman

Altyazı Uygulama – Subtitle Application Onur Çakır

Muhasebe – Accounting Metin Açar

© TRT Belgesel Kanalı – 2012

Ali Gökmen, İnci Gökmen, Çetin Göksu, Nezir Çetin, Sinan Erten, Celal Taştan

Thanks for Their Contributions

The Association of Documentary Filmmakers in Turkey (BSB)

Technical Support

Çan Film Production

Popular Bear Documentary Productions

Akademi Production

Special Thanks

Banu Uzpeder, İncilay Erdoğan

Melek Toraman, Mehmet Aksoy

Zuhal Kaynak, Hakan Paşalı

Çiğdem Kesik, Hayriye Savaşçıoğlu

Zeycan Elmas, Ayfer Tokatlıoğlu, Alev Elmas

Mehmet Eryılmaz, Mustafa Ünlü, Taner Sarf

Özge Gökçe, Erdem Z. Demirkol

“This program was produced by TRT for Asmin Film.

Murat: “We left Istanbul in 2006 and came here. Since then, we have had lots of ups and downs in our lives here. Yet, this collective life and our union here is quite valuable for me.”

Erkan: “We are in an agreement without any contracts as we have responsibility we have to others is the responsibility that we have to ourselves. Also, we don’t bring anyone to account because we accept everything anyone can do. We say to each other ‘You can make mistakes, so are you still with me? I’m with you because no matter how many mistakes I do, I have to continue to be with myself. Our root is the time we have spent together, our body is our presence and the things we have done in this place, and our arms are everyone we can reach.

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.

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

Çeviriler – Translation

İngilizce- English: Şirin Bahar Demirel

Rusça – Rusia : Emine Beldağ

Almanca- German: Veronika Hartman

Altyazı Uygulama – Subtitle Application Onur Çakır

Muhasebe – Accounting Metin Açar

© TRT Belgesel Kanalı – 2012

Erkan Buğday, Saydam-Pelin Beyazıt, Selen-Murat Akhuy, Tibet Akhuy, Leyla-Ezel Beyazıt, Dijan Albayrak, Hira Doğrul, Hazal Sıla Akduran, Kayhan Uğur, Mustafa Fatih Bakır, Ümit Kılıçgedik, Çağrı Gürbüz, Pınar-Mete Hacaloğlu, Yasin-Rana Sancak

Contributors

Acknowledgements

The Association of Documentary Filmmakers in Turkey (BSB)

Technical Support

Çan Film Production

KutupAyısı Documentary Productions

Akademi Production

Special Thanks to

Kaya Hacaloğlu, Birsenİncedayı, Ayşe İncedayı

BanuUzpeder, İncilayErdoğan

MelekToraman, Mehmet Aksoy,

ZuhalKaynak, HakanPaşalı

ÇiğdemKesik, HayriyeSavaşçıoğlu

ZeycanElmas, AyferTokatlıoğlu, AlevElmas

Mehmet Eryılmaz, TanerSarf, Erdem Z. Demirkol

“This Documentary has been produced by Asmin Film for TRT”

Ülkü: “The people feeling disturbed by man’s domination on man and its projection on ecosystem, obtain an awareness in time and they somehow find each other. It’s a process developing naturally on shared dreams. That’s how we got together. The dreams, ideals and aspirations grow by sharing them like this. “We can do this and do that.”

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.

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

Çeviriler – Translation

İngilizce- English: Şirin Bahar Demirel

Rusça – Rusia : Emine Beldağ

Almanca- German: Veronika Hartman

Altyazı Uygulama – Subtitle Application Onur Çakır

Muhasebe – Accounting Metin Açar

© TRT Belgesel Kanalı – 2012

Ali İhsan Başgül, Sevtap Kavruk, Ceyhan Temürcü,

Nihal Temürcü, Cemal Ersin, Nilüfer Akay Ersin,

Murat Tekin, Evren Yılmaz Tekin, Mehmet Kocabey,

Nurhayat Varol, Tolga Tuğbay Özçelik, Ülkü Sayılan

Thanks for Their Contributions
The Association of Documentary Filmmakers in Turkey (BSB)

Technical Support
Çan Film Production
Kutup Bearısı Documentary Productions
Akademi Production

Special Thanks

İncilay Erdoğan

Banu Uzpeder, Melek Toraman, Mehmet Aksoy,
Zuhal Kaynak, Hakan Paşalı

Çiğdem Kesik, Hayriye Savaşçıoğlu

Zeycan Elmas, Ayfer Tokatlıoğlu, Alev Elmas

Mehmet Eryılmaz, Taner Sarf, Erdem Z. Demirkol

“This program was produced by TRT for Asmin Film.

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.

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

Çeviriler – Translation

İngilizce- English: Şirin Bahar Demirel

Rusça – Rusia : Emine Beldağ

Almanca- German: Veronika Hartman

Altyazı Uygulama – Subtitle Application Onur Çakır

Muhasebe – Accounting Metin Açar

© TRT Belgesel Kanalı – 2012

Barçın Ailesi: Hakan, Selda, Can, Tan

Contributors

Acknowledgements

The Association of Documentary Filmmakers in Turkey (BSB)

Technical Support

Çan Film Production

KutupAyısı Documentary Productions

Akademi Production

Special Thanks to

Enis Rıza Sakızlı, Bahriye Kabadayı Dal, Burak Dal

İncilay Erdoğan

Banu Uzpeder, Melek Toraman, Mehmet Aksoy,

Zuhal Kaynak, Hakan Paşalı

Çiğdem Kesik, Hayriye Savaşçıoğlu

Zeycan Elmas, Ayfer Tokatlıoğlu, Alev Elmas

Mehmet Eryılmaz, Taner Sarf, Erdem Z. Demirkol

“This documentary has been produced by Asmin Film for TRT.”

Mustafa: “Firstly I have to say that we’re not city runaways. We didn’t flee. Our presence here is a conscious choice and based on philosophical reasons. It’s an initiative set out with good and strong intentions. Our object is to reach the healthy and the real food. Our intention is to produce for ourselves and then share the rest with our friends. Even this reason is enough for me to do that. I mean living in good houses in healthy conditions, producing and having a connection with nature, all of this is enough to leave the city and its relationships to choose this life. I want to enclose here with a fence for planting some trees, this part is a rocky place.”

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.

Yapım – Production
TRT Belgesel Kanalı – TRT Tourism and Documentary Channel

Yönetmen, Metin Yazarı – Written and Directed by
Bingöl Elmas

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

Çeviriler – Translation
İngilizce- English: Şirin Bahar Demirel
Rusça – Rusia :Emine Beldağ
Almanca- German:Veronika Hartman

Altyazı Uygulama – Subtitle Application
Onur Çakır

Muhasebe – Accounting
Metin Açar

© TRT Belgesel Kanalı – 2012

Ramazan Kuruoğlu, Rukiye Akıncı