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Memories of the Wind

Golden Anchor Competition

  • Archive - Festival 32
  • Director: Ozcan Alper
  • Turkey, Germany, France, Georgia 2015
  • 126 minutes
  • Turkish
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English


World War II. Turkey is working with Nazi Germany and using similarly brutal methods against minorities and members of the opposition. For Aram, an Armenian dissident, painter and poet, life in Istanbul is growing more dangerous. In the winter of 1943, he flees to the Turkish-Georgian border, where Mikhail and his young wife Mereyem give him shelter. Here, Aram waits for the papers he needs to escape to the Soviet Union.
Memories of the Wind is a well crafted drama, beautifully shot by cinematographer Andreas Sinanos, who shot Theo Angelopoulos’ films.
Filmography: Future Lasts Forever (2011), Autumn (2008).


  • Director Ozcan Alper
  • Production Soner Alper, Mustafa Oguz, Ali Bayraktar
  • Script Ozcan Alper, Ahmet Buke
  • Cinematography Andreas Sinanos
  • Editing Baptiste Gacoin, Ozcan Alper
  • Music Francois Couturier
  • Festivals Montréal World, Rotterdam, Antalya (Audience Award)
  • Actors Onur Saylak, Sofia Khandamirova, Mustafa Ugurlu, Ebru Ozkan
  • Source Nar Film, Istanbul

Memories of the Wind