{"id":74,"date":"2011-10-17T09:25:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T09:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/turkishfilmchannel.com\/blog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2017-11-30T01:33:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T01:33:47","slug":"interview-with-inan-temelkuran-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/interview-with-inan-temelkuran-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Inan Temelkuran – Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inan Temelkuran<\/strong>\u00a0Turkish filmmaker\u00a0Inan Temelkuran was born in Izmir in 1976. He studied film making in Spain after he received his degree in law in Ankara. He is the director, writer and producer of the award-winning films\u00a0Made in Europe<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Bornova Bornova<\/a>, both of which are part of Filmpot catalog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Filmpot’s \u0130lker Cengiz recently sat down with him in Istanbul and talked about many things over the course of an hour. This is Part 2 of our interview. For Part 1 here is your link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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FP: In Made in Europe<\/a> you told stories of immigrants. Where did the idea come from?<\/strong><\/p>\n

IT: I spent 5 years in Spain. I was working in kebab shops in Spain while studying film making. I lived with immigrants. While I was living with those guys, I witnessed some dialogs and psychology, which were different than any other thing I had seen before in my life, and different than any other immigrant movie had contained. Typical immigrant movies are all same about a big family, a girl wants to get married but there is a conflict between 1st and 2nd generation, integration issues, and drug mafias, should-we-go-back-or-stay questions. Bullshit! That existed in 70ies and 80ies for Turkish immigrants.<\/p>\n

But there is this new thing; millions are immigrating seeking a better life, people always migrate, but psychology is very different. There are lots of factors.\u00a0For example Turkish boss in Germany is the real exploiter of Turkish workers, but you don’t see that in those movies.\u00a0Friendship takes a form in a different way in Europe. For example, same curse words that can cause murder in Turkey won\u2019t have same affect in Europe because they need each other. There is a different form of kinship.<\/p>\n

Definition of being man changes for immigrants in Europe. In Turkey it is about taking care of family, being strong, and honor. There a man\u2019s honor is constantly crittered and he has to live with it.\u00a0And their weird relationship with women and with immigrants from other countries is another aspect. Turkish people with their own inferiority & superiority complexes compare themselves with other immigrants and think they deserve better. When they see a beautiful Spanish girl with an Arab guy, they question why. They think \u2018the girl should be with me not that stupid guy\u2019.<\/p>\n