Alle Hunde sterben

We see a high-rise building in the west of Turkey. The high-rise building has 17 floors. There are six apartments on each floor. There is an elevator. No attic, but a cellar. We are standing in the stairwell. It is dark. Uniformed men enter the tower block via the left edge of the picture. They storm up the stairs.
(…)
It was just before sunset, but it was already dark.
You must know, it always starts when it’s dark.

In ALLE HUNDE STERBEN (2020), Sahin tells the story in nine episodes of nine people who find exile in a high-rise building in western Turkey. They have all experienced torture, violence and abduction by units of the Turkish army and police. Among them: A mother who loads her dead son onto a pick-up truck. A woman chained up in a dog kennel. As they recount their escape, the systematic terror of the Turkish military catches up with them.

Sahin writes about violence, displacement, militarism and nationalism in a remarkably sober and at the same time poetic language. Her writing is so clear and honest that it often leaves you speechless. Director Dîlan Z. Çapan stages four of the stories from the novel – without embellishment, but with a great deal of empathy. The fates stand on their own and yet interweave to form a larger whole.

THOSE WHO CANNOT TELL THE EVENTS
WITHOUT FICTION
HAS NOT EXPERIENCED THEM
DOES NOT MEAN IT SINCERELY WITH US
THERE IS NO OTHER EXPLANATION
FOR THESE PICTURES

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