A third grant of $10,000 goes to Turkish filmmaker Erhan Arik for his project Our Seeds

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

In northeastern Turkey, a farming couple — who are still keeping a 1,500-year-old ancestral seed alive —face the fact that they cannot leave the fate of the seed in the hands of their children. ORUC and GUNES’s faith in nature begins to be tested by the emerging dreams of their children and the test deepens as the harvest of this year is harder than usual. A dark picture has emerged due to the changing and indistinct climate and the clearer fragmentation of the family, the incredible rise of inflation, the political instability in the country and accompanying agricultural policies that do not support the production of farmers. It is painful for both of them to imagine that the family-seed will not be planted when they are gone, and it gradually turns into a nightmare for them. The farming couple starts looking for other ways to keep the seed alive.