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202167 minPGdocumentary

Patrida

202167 minPGdocumentary

Ayça follows her father Ismet's 50-year-old path from Zürich to Istanbul, addressing family ties, historical context, and identity issues across the Bosporus.

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Ayça Damgacı,

Tümay Göktepe

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Ayça follows her father Ismet's 50-year-old path from Zürich to Istanbul, addressing family ties, historical context, and identity issues across the Bosporus.

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Ayça Damgacı

Ayça Damgacıdirector

Tümay Göktepedirector

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Ayça rewinds the route that her father Ismet had made 50 years ago from Zürich to Istanbul. Family business meets great history, with its hightlights and its shadows. Father and daughter go through joie de vivre and pain, with the feeling of being rooted and uprooted on both side of the Bosporus.

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