Films by Ali Gözkaya

2017, 72 min
by Axel Koenzen, Ali Gözkaya

Patara tells the story of the reconstruction of the world’s first federal parliament, built 50 BC in Anatolia, Turkey. At the beginning of this millenium the Turkish government decided to reconstruct the ancient assembly hall of Patara to set up a stage for a meeting between U.S. president Barack Obama and the Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Apparently Obama never came. Therefore the film looks at both sides of the coin of what Obama once called a ‘model partnership’, a strategical