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"I want to thank our associate producer Çiğdem Mater. She is not with us today because she was put into jail after a ridiculous show trial. She is not with us but our minds and hearts are with her." said director Emin Alper before the premiere of his latest film “Burning Days” at Cannes.

The short titled “Hevêrk/the Circle” by Ruken Tekeş telling the tragedy that a 7-year-old Yezidi Kurdish girl goes through in school environment will be screened in short movie section of 69th Cannes Film Festival.