This was Hasankeyf (2015)

• 78%
• 2015
• Documentary
• Tommaso Vitali

Imagine a marvelous rural place, millenary caves carved in the limestone, inside which you were born. Imagine playing along the mythical Tigris river with your best friends or sleeping on the roof during summer, tucked between your siblings, under quiet starry nights. This is Hasankeyf, a stunning trove of history in Anatolia. This treasure will disappear forever in 2015, totally flooded by the immense lake created by the Ilisu Dam Project. This was Hasankeyf is our deep political and poetic ethnography within this small community, where beauty derides death - the only and last possibility to live, for one day, among its citizens, their epic memories and magic landscapes, one sublime and intense day living as rural heroes, exploring the petrifying perception of loss and change.