Rekin Teksoy

In 1961, the young writer Onat Kutlar goes to Paris to study philosophy. After discovering his passion for cinema at the Cinémathèque Française he decides to found a Cinematheque in Istanbul to bring the world of art cinema to Turkey. Although the Turkish Sinematek came to a tragic end in 1980, it quickly established an intellectual film culture that continues to influence Turkey today.

Turkey in the 1960s and 1970s was one of the biggest producers of film in the world. In order to keep up with the demand, screenwriters and directors were copying scripts and remaking movies from all over the world. This documentary visits the fastest working directors, the most practical cameramen and the most hardheaded actors to have a closer look into the country's tumultuous history of movie making.

A cinema enthusiast who questions the reality around him uses his camera like his own eyes to examine the morality, rules, and lawlessness of the area he lives in, encountering layers of social schizophrenia. With his hidden camera, he witnesses the searing narratives that surround him. His recording camera (his eyes) is stolen by children in his neighborhood: The childhood versions of a young generation that doesn't hesitate to kill when they grow up The film, which shows the dysfunctionality of justice and social institutions in many places, validates a few sentences spoken years ago.