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Watch Online / Yeski - old, Yeni - new (2021)
Desc: Yeski - old, Yeni - new: Directed by Alexander Pukhov, Katya Zayaz. The main character of the film is old shepherd Ramazan, he is 83 years old and he was born and raised in one of Hasankeyf's caves. Physically, he is strong, but he has Alzheimer's and he remembers almost nothing. It is through the decaying consciousness of this elderly person who repeats the same stories over and over, who confuses where the boundaries between dreams and reality lie, and who mistakenly takes strangers as old friends, as we come closer to the problem of memory loss, in both, historical and personal sense. Ramazan's fading memory reflects the tragedy of Hasankeyf's slow death; both the man and the city with their long stories are forgetting who they are. The story of Ramazan and his hometown Hasankeyf is entangled with the story of two authors, who have entered the city as tourists but stayed after a car crash and slowly emerged into its last months, becoming closer, creating personal relations with the citizens, diving deeper into the slow decay, even creating their own delusion of being able to help. Still they are outsiders.