Loosely inspired by Stefan Zweig’s novella, in which playing chess is depicted as a means of surviving fascism, The Avalanche recounts the events of the Armenian genocide, still contested by the Turkish state. Pinar Öğrenci uses archives and present-day footage of the region to uncover the traumas left by the Armenian people on their landscape and their memories.
Cast
Crew
Pınar Öğrenci
Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer
Eytan İpeker
Editor
Ercan Yılmaz
Director of Photography
Serdar Karslı
Second Assistant Camera
İlker Rukan
Sound Designer, Sound Mixer
Emir Buğra Kazak
Sound Engineer
Ayhan Hacıfazlıoğlu
Visual Effects
Hayrik Mouradian
Music
Asya Yaghmurian
Researcher
Ece Eldek
Graphic Designer
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