Hold Still
Original title: "Dargeçit"
Directed by
Berke Baş
A producer and director, Berke Baş’s films deal with pressing social and political issues including undocumented migration (In Transit, 2005), women’s political rights (What a Beautiful Democracy!, 2008), Armenian orphans of 1915 (hush!/La Chanson de Nahide, 2009), trials of manhood (Concrete Park, 2010), power of sports to to rise above economic and political turmoil (Bağlar, 2016, with Melis Birder) and struggle for truth and justice in the aftermath of enforced disappearances (Hold Still, 2024).
Cinematography by
Berke Baş
Edited by
Catherine Gouze, Eytan İpeker
Music by
Cenker Kökten
Color: color, Running time: 82, Format: HD, Countries: Türkiye, Languages: Turkish, Kurdish
Producer(s)
Enis Köstepen
Enis Köstepen studied international trade and sociology at Boğaziçi University and anthropology at The New School for Social Research. His filmography includes Dark Cloud (Bahtı Kara, Theron Patterson, 2009), Beyond the Hill (Tepenin Ardı, Emin Alper, 2012), Lifelong (co-producer, Hayatboyu, Aslı Özge, 2013), Abluka (Emin Alper, 2015), A Tale of Three Sisters (co-producer, Kız Kardeşler, Emin Alper 2019), Hold Still (Dargeçit, Berke Baş, 2024), Yellow Letters (co-producer and co-screenwriter, Sarı Zarflar, İlker Çatak, post-production).
Production company(s)
Liman Film, inHouse projects, Hafıza Merkezi
Synopsis
27 years and counting... Families whose sons and brothers forcibly disappeared by state forces in the Dargeçit district of Mardin in 1995 are still fighting for truth and justice in Turkey's broken judicial system. While breaking the state’s wall of impunity may seem like an impossible task, “the truth is out there for those who want to see it.”
