Screening
Asian New Force Category Finalist
The Blue Identity
Mumin Baris / Turkey / Col / 19' 58" / In Kurdish with English subtitles
Two men with a Blue (refugee) passport living in Berlin try to deal with the idea of not being able to go back to their homeland forever.
Artist's Statement
Nasnameyek Hêşîn (The Blue Identity) is a realistic film about the everyday lives of two refugees living in Berlin. The story is actually a real-life story which makes my film a docudrama. I didn’t really try to write a story but only wrote a script from the story my friend told me. Both of my characters and their dramas are real. I tried a new style of filmmaking by combining documentary and fiction together with the modern art values such as minimalism. In Nasnameyek Hêşîn, I tried to create a film which not only tells a story to the audience but also gives something deeper and makes the audience feel and think about it, too.