Kiymet (2012)

My grandmother Kiymet Oezdemir has inspired me through her own life experience and the valuable conversations I had with her on political activism and relationships. This film is portraying how she emigrated from Turkey to Germany and how she made it through life despite the difficulties she had to face: as a wife and mother, and on a political level as a socialist. Starting with my trip to her village in Turkey the story continues in Berlin where we attend a traditional pre-wedding ceremony and the May Day demonstration. An autobiographic and self-reflexive film about the history of a family told from the perspectives of a grandmother and her granddaughter, KIYMET explores how suffering can eventually be transformed into love hope for the younger generation.