“Sürgün” Installation. Media. Happening
Modern art project dedicated to the 74th anniversary of the deportation and genocide of the Crimean Tatar people.
The project was created by:
► Vlodko Kaufman – Lviv artist and performer (Dziga, Week of Modern Art / Lviv)
► Rustem Skibin – Crimean Tatar ceramist (El Cheber / Crimea, Kiev)
► A team of Crimean Tatar directors, cameramen and photographers
Curator: Alim Aliev
Documentary «ARZU | DREAM» (2018)
About the stolen dreams of the deported in 1944 generation of Crimean Tatars and about today’s childhood dreams of the new Crimean Tatar generation.
The video was created within the art project “Sürgün: Installation. Media. Happening.”
Feature film “87 Children” (2017)
Another story from director Akhtem Seitablayev, based on real events, tells the story of a real historical character – kindergarten teacher Saide Arifova. During the German occupation of Crimea, Saide Arifova rescues 87 Jewish children from imminent death, pass them off as Crimean Tatars. She gives each of them a Crimean Tatar name and teaches them Muslim prayers. She manages to mislead the Germans, but it does not save her from the deportation of Crimean Tatars. When she was being taken to the station to be put in a freight wagon and sent to a distant exile, the Jewish children she had rescued ran after the truck and shouted: “Bring our mother Saide back.”
Directed by: Akhtem Seitablayev
Feature film “Haytarma” (2013)
“Haytarma” is the first Crimean Tatar feature film and the first feature film about deportation. It is about the tragic page in the history of the Crimean Tatar people – the criminal deportation of indigenous people from their homeland. The main character of the film is Amet-Khan Sultan who was twice awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. After the liberation of Sevastopol, he comes to his native Alupka and witnesses the tragedy of the deportation. The most striking thing in “Haytarma” is the scenes of the expulsion itself, in which hundreds of people took part, many of them survived the deportation when they were young.
Directed by: Akhtem Seitablayev
The documentary “1944” (2019)
On may 18, 1944, at about 5 am, there was a knock on the door of every Crimean Tatar house. Men had gone to the front at that time, there were women, old men and children in Crimea. They were taken out of their homes, loaded into freight wagons intended for transporting livestock, and were unloaded in Central Asia and the Urals. In the film, the story of the deportation is told by people who survived it. They share their memories of the day of deportation, when they were woken up from the knocks of the buttstock on the door, they remember the freight cars in which they were taken out of Crimea, the first years in exile, when thousands of men were dying of starvation and disease and how they managed to survive in these inhuman conditions.
Directed by: Fatima Osmanova, Yunus Pasha
