30th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

23. 10.–1. 11. 2026
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Ebb&Tide

Ebb&Tide

Akile Nazli Kaya / Türkiye, Czech Republic / 2010 / 11 min.


synopsis

A family is departing. Footage of a married couple relocating to Germany in the 1970s is intercut with the voiceover of their daughter, who decided to live in the Czech Republic. Diary entries and footage of the parents as a witness to people’s departures from Turkey, a country to which they are constantly trying to define their relationship.

biography

Âkile Nazlı Kaya (1980) earned a bachelor’s degree in Ankara, studied animation in Zlín and graduated from the audiovisual studies program at FAMU in Prague. She is the author of several animated and documentary films, which she makes in collaboration with Tomáš Doruška.

film details

director: Akile Nazli Kaya
cast: Sezan Kaya, Altan Kaya
producer: Akile Nazli Kaya
script: Akile Nazli Kaya
photography: Altan Kaya, Sezan Kaya, Taner Özek
editing: Tomáš Doruška
sound: Tomáš Doruška

contact

NAZLI KAYA / Akile Nazli Kaya / nazlikaya@gmail.com

Film at festival

festival edition:2016
section:Transparent Landscape: Turkey
language:Turkish
subtitles:English
colour:Colour

Info

director:Akile Nazli Kaya
original title:GelGit
country:Türkiye, Czech Republic
year:2010
running time:11 min.

Festival partners

Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
Creative Europe Media
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms

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