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Premiered at Dok Leipzig in 2016, THE RETURN<\/a><\/strong> is an independent film produced in Turkey by Armenian director Hale G\u00fczin K\u0131z\u0131laslan, reflecting on present-day Eastern Anatolia, or the Armenian Highlands\u2014a region where Christian Armenians had historically lived alongside Muslim Kurds. Through scenes from the everyday life of present-day occupants, K\u0131z\u0131laslan unravels the generational memory of the Armenian Genocide, remembered as the Medz Yeghern (\u201cGreat Catastrophe\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through expropriation, displacement and extermination, the Armenian population in this region of the Ottoman Empire dropped from around two million<\/a> to less than 500,000. Despite the ethnic cleansing committed against Armenians during the First World War, Turkey has refuted claims of genocide. The memory of Armenian settlements in present-day Eastern Anatolia has likewise been erased by the Turkish government, without even memorials or plaques to mark the memory of these atrocities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

K\u0131z\u0131laslan\u2019s eye lingers over scenes of villages like Kahta, where old stone homes and bridges seamlessly meld into the mountainous region surrounding Mount Nemrut. Here, survivors persist, building their lives amid these landscapes of silence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE RETURN is especially relevant in a moment of unfolding conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, where Turkey has been implicated through its military alliance with Azerbaijan. 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