Birds Fly Back

10min, 2022

With:
Hikmet
Abdurrahman
Hamza
Aziz
Neșat
Ayșegül
Yaren
Sıla
Meryem
Kadri
Ahmet

Credits:
Director & Cinematography - Jiyan Düyü
Edit - Jiyan Düyü
Camera & Sound - Melle van Herwaarden
Sound Design - Rick Haring
Grading - Barend Onneweer
Production - Recep & Jiyan Düyü, Murat Karademir

Special Thanks To:
Jeroen Vermandere
VAV-Moving Image
Gerrit Rietveld Academie

Birds Fly Back consists of a linear edit and a two channel video installation and was the graduation work of Jiyan Düyü. It was presented at the Eye Filmmuseum and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie during the graduation show of 2022. The work got selected for the Best of Graduates Show at the Ron Mandos Gallery where it won the Lakeside Collection Award.

The film also got selected for the NFF (Nederlands Film Festival) Studentcompetition and won the Dutch Film Fund (Nederlands Film Fonds) Wildcard. The film will also be shown at the Kurdsich Film Festival in Berlin.