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Min Dt The Children of Diyarbakr Kurdish Min Dt Turkish Ben Grdm both meaning I saw is a 2009 kurdish drama film, written, produced and directed by Germanbased Kurdish filmmaker Miraz Bezar, based on a story cowritten with AleviKurdish journalist and shortstory writer Evrim Alata, about street children in the eastern Turkish city of Diyarbakr. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on April2,201020100402 , was the first film from Turkey to feature the Kurdish language and won awards at film festivals in San Sebastian, where it premiered, Antalya and Istanbul.

Some in the audience ask if children face these situations in real life,, With some exceptions, all live under such circumstances they grow up in an atmosphere of peak violence. Hakan Karsak, who features in the film, added, We, in Turkey, try to understand the children in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Palestine, but we never consider the situation of the children living in the kurdish part of Turkey. Now it is time to look at life from the perspective of a kurdish child. In the end this is a film about violence, the history of violence here in Turkey, the director has concluded, I want people to understand that violence produces violence. This is a story of children who want to stop or at least escape this violence.Miraz Bezar cast the actors himself. enay Orak and Muhammed Al were cast after the director met them on a bus trip to Urfa. Their highly acclaimed performances have been attributable to the fact that they are not only very talented childactors but are also children who suffered experiences similar to the characters in the film. ........

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