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Awakening: A Fairy Tale

“Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The Sleeper must awaken”.

Filmed in a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Cappadocia, Turkey , the documentary tells the story of a man and his son trying to revitalize the traditional methods of vine keeping through fertilization of the volcanic ash soil with pigeon guano. A unique relationship between people, pigeons and fairy chimneys a sentient ecology is to be revealed in a magical yet experimental fairy tale. The film questions what heritage is to a landscape emptied by internal migration and is linked to a broader local community empowerment & storytelling project. www.fairydustcappadocia.com

  • Eda Elif Tibet
    Director
  • Eda Elif Tibet
    Writer
  • Eda Elif Tibet
    Producer
  • Ahmet Turke
    Key Cast
  • Mehmet Turke
    Key Cast
  • Mehmet Ozel
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    60 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    March 1, 2024
  • Country of Origin:
    Türkiye
  • Country of Filming:
    Türkiye
  • Language:
    Turkish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:09
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Ethno Kino (rough cut)
    Bern
    Switzerland
    March 7, 2019
    Swiss Premiere
  • International Wine Film Festival (rough cut)
Director Biography - Eda Elif Tibet

Eda Elif Tibet is an independent documentary film maker and a visual anthropologist from Istanbul. She filmed and directed award winning documentary films under her own label www.karmamotion.com , a non- hierarchical collective run by academics, artists and activists. Her recent films are ; Awakening a Fairy Tale (forthcoming, 2021), Ait Atta: Nomads of the High Atlas (2020), Ballad for Syria (2017), Refugee Here I Am (2015), Hey Goat! (2014) AMCHI (2013), 28 Days on the Moon (2012).

She is currently a Post-Doc researcher at the Institute of Geography (University of Bern). She has obtained her PhD from the University of Bern (Switzerland, 2019) and holds an MPhil degree on Social Anthropology from the University of Kent (UK, 2013). As part of her research funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, she followed the lives of the unaccompanied asylum seeking youth in Turkey right at the time of the drafting processes of the EU & Turkey deal (2015-2016), Project Web Site: www.transeduscapes.com .

Her research and teaching encompass the relations between postcolonial thought and mobilities, the commons and the sustainability transition movements, sentient ecologies between nature and culture, the application of critical pedagogies, as well as strategies of non-formal education, to social movements and the promotion of participatory action research.

She is an advisory member of the Enacting Global Transformation Initiative at the University of Oxford and a founding member of ETHNOKINO, a curatorial ethnographic film screening program taking place at the Kino in der Reitschule cinema in Bern, Switzerland.

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Director Statement

I make films not for states or currency, our stories are told by us the common people for a more just world.