Documentary, Animation, Docu-drama
director: Can Türe
producers: Nilüfer Neslihan Arslan, Seda Portakal, Can Türe
In the words of the poet Küçük İskender, a close friend of Kanat Güner, “in Turkey, there is no underground but Köprüaltı (literally translated under bridge; a term that describes a bohemian lifestyle blending misery, fun, pleasure and freedom). Following the life of Kanat and the story of her book, the film seeks an answer to the question of why the Turkish equivalent of the subculture universally called underground is Köprüaltı.
The documentary tells of the last ten years of Kanat Güner, who penned Turkey’s first underground novel based on her own life, through the eyes of the real characters of her book and of her closest fellows. Kanat lived and died as she described in her novel. The film takes the audience from communal night clubs under the Galata Bridge in the 1980s through smoky, filthy and shabby bars of the 1990s Istanbul to dark, dirty streets, university student clubs, apartments stuffed with books, where people live in communes.
