North American Premiere
As the unfolding genocide in Gaza is streamed around the world, resistence persists for a group of activists and immigrants in Amsterdam sabotaged by insomnia.
Netherlands/Turkey
2025
English
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Credits & Director
Screenwriter
Fırat Yücel, Aylin Kuryel
Editor
Fırat Yücel
Original Music
Metin Bozkurt
Fırat Yücel
Firat Yücel is a documentary producer and editor who lives and works in Amsterdam and Istanbul. He curates the video series Altyazı Fasikül: Free Cinema, a part of the Altyazı Cinema Association, which is dedicated to supporting political film and video makers at risk in Turkey and elsewhere. His work centers around collective filmmaking and resistance against censorship, while his documentaries focus on topics like exile, surveillance, and the right to the city, taking forms that include video essays, desktop documentaries, and biopics, among others. Yücel is part of the BAK Cell, Utrecht, in the Fellowship for Situated Practice.
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