Odyssey
2018, film, 70 min


AWARDS
Istanbul Experimental Film Festival  - Best Feature
Doc Alliance Selection Award - Best Film 
FESTIVALS 
Doclisboa Int. Comp, WINNER Doc Alliance Award Best Film (Portugal)
Transcinema International Competition (Peru)
Cinemigrante Festival Internacional de Cine (Argentina)
FIDMarseille International Film Festival (France)
Doclisboa Doc Alliance Screenings (Portugal)
Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, (Czech Republic)
Istanbul Experimental International Competition (Turkey)
Pravo Ljudski Film Festival International Competition (Bosnia)
ICA: Institute of Contemporary Arts London (UK)
New Horizons Film Festival, Visual Front (Poland)
Kinu #3, Azkuna Zentroa Bilbao (Spain)
BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts Brussels (Belgium)
Gudskul 100 Hari Documenta 15, Jakarta (Indonesia)
Light Cone  / Rencontres du Cinéma Documentaire (France)
ReCNTR at Filmhuis Den Haag (Netherlands)
Festival Film Dokumenter, Utopia/Dystopia (Indonesia)
Beirut Art Centre (Lebanon)

FULL REVIEWS
Debordements Revue de Cinéma, Connecter Les Points (link)
Film Comment Magazine, Festivals: Doclisboa 2018  (link)
Film Krant (link)

"An outstanding, innovative, ambitious and formally rigorous essay film, which treats a very contemporary topic of our society in a unique and playful manner.  The film provides a complex, multi-layered rendering of the parallel and intertwined histories of nationalist, colonialist and thus racist structures in society." 
— Jury Doc Alliance Award 2019

“Complex and rewarding (...) pointing to cinema’s potential to render strange the act of seeing and to the fragility of truth as a highly mediated, constantly renegotiated construct.” 
— Ela Bittencourt / Film Comment

"It is through a poetic way that what is found behind these images ​can find a place into the visible from which it has been excluded."
— Debordements Magazine

​"The winner of the section is Odyssey for the amazing re-orchestration of the archival sources, the original cinematic dispositif for narration, the cleverness of a critical/political analysis of the images, shifting from the past to the present and future."

— Paolo Simoni / Jury Istanbul Exp. FF