FUTURE LASTS FOREVER

FUTURE LASTS FOREVER, 2011
Director: Özcan Alper
France-Turkey-Germany, 35mm, Color, 108’ Turkish with English subtitles

Sumru is a music student at a university in Istanbul. She sets off for southeastern Turkey to gather and record Anatolian elegies for her thesis. As she is searching for the stories of elegies in Diyarbakır she confronts her own delayed grief; she “lost” the man she loved and, though she does not admit it even to herself, has come after him to “a violent region.” Here Sumru’s path will cross with Ahmet’s, a man wounded by the region who sells bootleg DVDs on the street. As they both slowly touch each other’s wounds they in fact put their finger on an entire country’s great bleeding wound, one that never heals. This new film by Özcan Alper, who won many awards with his previous film Autumn, is a multilingual and multicultural road movie in which a journey turns into a quest.