The 'Istanbul Express,' a cinematic project exploring languages in Europe today, began its journey on September 20 with 45 talented young filmmakers setting out to produce short documentaries on the theme of European multilingualism. The journey will take in 24 cities in 18 countries before arriving in Istanbul, the 2010 European Cultural Capital, on October 10.
The filmmakers, who are divided into three groups, produce creative short films on the theme of European multilingualism. The groups will meet in Istanbul on October 10.
Forty-five young filmmakers from various European countries have begun visiting 18 cities by train and making short documentary films on the life and languages of the different societies they encounter – focusing especially on Turkish.
When the films for the "Istanbul Express" project are complete, the young filmmakers will meet in Istanbul on October 10.
While visiting different European countries, the mission of the 45 filmmakers is to produce creative short documentaries on the theme of European multilingualism by crossing multiple borders and experiencing linguistic situations first-hand, exploring the Europe of the new generation and how it speaks.
One of the groups, during the ones doing the final shooting in Stockholm, included Turks living there in their film. Turks from different groups and ages acted in the film with their own languages.
The second group in the project, working in San Sebastian, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Essen, Vienna, Budapest and Sofia, will arrive in Istanbul on October 10, as will the third group, which is working in Turin, Ljubljana, Zagreb, Pécs, Belgrade, Skopje and Thessaloniki. While choosing these cities, the difference between the languages spoken there was taken into consideration.
The films made by the young filmmakers will be made into 15 short documentaries. The main theme of the 15 films will be "Turkish in Europe." The film will feature the relations of Turkish immigrants in Europe with their native language.
Award-winning filmmakers on board
Award-winning documentary filmmakers are accompanying the whole filmmaking process of the young film crews in each train.
The directors include Macedonian Atanas Georgiev, director of "Cash & Marry," Serbian Boris Mitic, director of "Goodbye, How Are You?" and Bulgarian Andrey Paounov, director of "The Mosquito Problem" and "Other Stories." The teams are also undertaking intense preparations via regular online meetings and research tasks.
Some of the thematic outlines decided on so far include "Graffiti as urban dialogue," "Cities speaking to one another," "The possibilities – and impossibilities – of multilingual love," "Linguistic contexts of Armenian-Turkish communities" and "Second and third generation immigrants’ perspectives on language."
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