My dear friends, I invite you all to set out with me today and breathe a little differently. Sir, I have been in Adana for a week. On the occasion of the 33rd Golden Boll International Film Festival, I am a little embarrassed to say that my 78-year-old life has become a documentary film; her name is Matryoshka! I did not interfere at all, I just handed over the requested documents and photographs, and my director named her Matryoshka. “Why Matryoshka?” I asked. My director said, "Sir, you are a person of the 68 generation, you are the indispensable actress of the Theater of Movement for Revolution. Then, if there was a resistance or a painful event in almost every part of Turkey, you ran as a journalist, and after Yaşar Kemal and Fikret Otyam, you made interviews about the people of this country, about nearly a hundred people. You wrote scripts, stories, shot films, held dozens of short film workshops, there are not many countries in the world you haven't visited, you are a matryoshka!" he replied.
How can I object? He was once my student in short film workshops. She was a compassionate nurse, and when she retired, she bought herself a camera and started shooting short films. His short films opened up a whole new horizon for him and he started traveling around the world. It's my turn. I would like to thank my director Melihat Özdoğan Ağgül, our Iranian friend Ali Kazem Zadeh, the director of photography, Uluç Erdem Ersen, the editor and producer, and the Adana Altın Koza festival team, who undertook the special screening of the film, and decided to take you to a dream.
My dear friends, these days I have become interested in the caves of Turkey and I asked my friend from Adana, Haluk Uygur, a doctor and photographer, one of the important touchstones in the cultural field of Adana, one of the founders of Adana Altınoran Thought and Art Platform and Adana Cinematheque, and who tries to introduce us to the aboveground and underground richness of our beautiful country with the photographs he took, to take me to Taşkuyu Cave on the Adana-Mersin road.
Of course he didn't mind, we set off. We came to Taşkuyu Cave, discovered by engineers working in road construction. When I entered the cave, which was formed over 500 million years, I instantly felt like I had stepped into another world. Haluk Hodja also takes photos. He explained my cave situation like this, and I would like to thank him.
I was like this in the cave: "He used his fingers as a lens and shot a movie there. I realized that there is no need for a camera to make a movie. You can shoot with your mind, as long as you are impressed. Sometimes he flew into the air like a drone. Sometimes he talked to the stones. He also found the patterns of the cardigan knitted by his mother in the texture of the stones. He even showed me Dali's melting clocks. He even showed me Michelangelo's Pieta. I have been there so much that I have not seen it. I realized that I was blind. I said, 'That's right,' "Facts are variable, when you look at them, you see what you think."
Enough already, I've talked too much about myself. There are so many films from around the world and from us at the festival that you may wonder which one to go to. At the festival, where feature films, shorts, documentaries and student films are shown, films made with artificial intelligence are also shown for the first time this year. My dear, linen halva is burned! In addition, this year, film screenings are held in the surrounding provinces and districts especially affected by the earthquake. In Kadirli, Arguvan, Adıyaman, Nizip, Elbistan, Dörtyol, Arsuz. I really liked this. It must continue and spread further. I also came up with a great slogan: Movies are for everyone!
In addition, this year the festival addresses the people of Adana and the whole world: "We will not be the garbage dump of the West!" Because especially the Ceyhan region of Adana has become the plastic garbage dump of the West, you cannot even enter the garbage dump of the region. Those who buy this garbage said they will recycle it, but they burn it. The healing air of the Taurus Mountains is getting polluted.
Hamiş: Let me remind you again, Adana is a late Hittite state. The Hittites, who discovered beer, loved pleasure and enjoyment. Well, genetic codes do not change much even over the years. Adana is a city that always refuses to lose its joy. Well done.
