‘Love is Over’ Documentary Available Online on the 7th Anniversary of Gezi

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"Love is Over" documentary will be available online for two weeks from May 31, the 7th anniversary of Gezi Resistance, to June 14.

In the days when the Gezi Park was occupied in 2013, people in Brazil were also in the streets, protesting the bus fare rise and sending their greetings to Gezi Park. "Love is Over" follows the story of its "Gezi protester" narrator whose past is connected with Brazil.

Hearing the greetings of Brazilian people as they chanted through the streets "Love is over! This is Turkey now!", the narrator of the documentary set out for Brazil to find answers about these concurrent protests.

Acabou o Amor | Love is Over | Aşk Bitti from Mert Kaya on Vimeo.

Directed by Mert Kaya, "Love is Over" made its premiere at the 36th İstanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) İstanbul Film Festival in 2017 and received JvdK New Talent Special Jury Award in the same year.

'Hope in recalling the memories of the streets'

The team of the film addresses its audience as follows: "While the increasing political pressures around the world have reshaped the peoples relationship with the streets in recent years, the images of empty streets caused by Covid-19 may have strengthen the feeling of despair that we have fallen into. That is why, we find hope in recalling the memories of the streets once again.

"We go through a time where we need to remember that we are still together against all pressures and to contemplate and to imagine. We are glad to share Love is Over with our friends who feel the need of a collective memory. With the hope of the better days we will build up together!"

From the synopsis of the documentary:

"On the days of June 2013, people from two different parts of the world went to the streets to shout out their dissatisfaction. This dissatisfaction had been accumulating over the past years with rising violations of civil rights and freedoms and neoliberal discipline methods in all over the world.

"On those days when the Gezi Park was occupied, people in Brazil who were also in the streets protesting the bus fare rise were sending their greetings to Gezi Park. This documentary follows the story of its 'Gezi protester' narrator whose past is connected with Brazil.

"Hearing the greetings of Brazilian people as they chante through the streets 'Love is over! This is Turkey now!', the narrator sets on a journey to Brazil to find some answers about these concurrent protests.

"After introducing his personal story to the audience, he introduces the streets of Sao Paulo, occupied homes, and demonstrators of different age, gender and backgrounds. So the audience starts to travel between personal and social memory. 

"'Love is Over' is a documentary aiming to refresh our own memories of struggle by listening to the stories from another part of the world."

(RT/SD)