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Denge Radyoya Rewanê li ku ye? / Erivan Radyosunun Sesi Nerede?
Turkey, 2022, 48'
Mustafa Orman
Kurdish, Turkish with Turkish and English subtitles

In the documentary, the voice of the generation who listened to Yerevan Radio is listened to. The children of that time, who grew up around a radio in the past, have grown up, and now they are old and they remember their memories thanks to the radio. In the years when Yerevan Radio started broadcasting, voices echoing in the memories of those who listen to the broadcast can be heard. Along with the memories that make people smile about those days, the importance of radio that keeps people together and speaks like them is explained. We know the radio in the naivete of people who think that it is a headless person, or a guest coming to a yacht or dinner. Radio is also a mythological hero for the Kurds. It is a legend. Radio is also a renunciation for the Kurds living at that time. Because there is a crowd selling their horses, cows, land, property just for the sake of listening to Yerevan Radio. Those listeners, who are trying to reach existence with Yerevan Radio when they are in poverty, are complaining about today’s life while expressing their longing for those days. It is mentioned that people who gather around the radio and listen to the folk songs and stories on the radio, remembering the historical difficulties experienced, have increased their hopes for life. On the other hand, Yerevan Radio is the story of those who left their homeland and hoped to find people lost in the world through radio, and those who found their relatives.