Sister Plants - Asmin Film Production

About Film

A group of friends from Ankara set up a group called ‘Sister Plants’. They have bought land and they are doing permaculture there. They are doing farming trials with the sister plants technique.

Sister Plant Technique: It is based on a principle that the plants that are beneficial to each other (in shading feeding the soil, driving the hazardous insects away, attracting helpful insects, etc.) are planted next to one another and disagreeable ones are planted far away. It is one of the best effective methods for ecological agriculture.

This group is collecting their crops and distributing them to their members. By distributing food and information, they are working like a cooperative. With the sister plants group, we witness a life one part in the city and the other part in the village. We track down the clues on how to live in our urban lives without breaking the bonds with the nature.

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Movie Quotes

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.”

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