Synopsis
A filmmaker’s 21-day homage to capture the ethereal essence of her unique ancient homeland soon to be submerged by a hydroelectric dam, AETHER is instinctively carried and driven by emotions, feelings and observations. It reveals the place’s truths following its own unencumbered chronology. An invitation to a free-minded voyage into nature’s cycle of birth-death-rebirth in the oldest continuously inhabited place on Earth, Hasankeyf.
Director
Rûken Tekeş
Born on 1976 in Diyarbakir, Turkey. She is an international human rights expert who has worked a number of years for United Nations and following that as lecturing Professor on human rights. She started scriptwriting and directing on social, political and environmental issues in 2015. Her international-award-winning first fiction short Hevêrk / The Circle (2016) has participated to over 200 festivals worldwide and was nominated for European Film Awards – European Short Film 2017. Her feature documentary debut Aether (2019) premiered in official competition at 50th Visions du Réel Film Festival, Aether continues to be screened at international festivals and received prizes from festivals such as Antalya Golden Orange FF, Inconvenient Films Human Rights FF, Duhok FF, Meditaren FF. Tekeş is a member of the European Film Academy, makes up films with a team dominated by women.