The Circle
In Mesopotamia, there are children of different ethnicities, religions and languages. Zelal, a 7 years old petite girl, is an ethnic Kurd as well as religiously an Ezidi. Zelal along with her schoolmates, Zeki and Bekir, attends a school where the one and only official education based on Turkish. An ordinary school day turned into a life-changing event for Zelal and her introvert admirer Zeki after their teacher introduces the letter of the week ‘O’…
- Turkey
- 2016, 14 min
- Director: Rûken Tekeş
- Director of photography: Deniz Eyuboglu
- Editor: Ozcan Deniz
- Screenplay: Rûken Tekeş
- Music: Kardes Turkuler Music Group
- Cast: Delila Kaya as Zelal, Emircan Kaya as Zeki’ Sehmuz Demirtas as Bekir, Mufir Aytekin as Teacher + 36 children of Mesopotamia
- Contacts: Sarya Films
- Art Director: Rûken Tekeş
- Producer: Rûken Tekeş
- Production: Sarya Films Collective
Rûken Tekeş
Rûken Tekes, Kurdish born on 1976 in Diyarbakir -Turkey. She has a Master's Degree on Human Rights and Democratization from European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation in Venice / Italy. She worked a number of years as human rights expert for United Nations and following that as lecturing Professor in the university. 'Hevêrk / The Circle' is her first short film.