The Hindu Business Line : Turkish-German film fest in Hyderabad

"The third generation Turkish-German cinema gives us a mixture of familiarity and foreignness and of understanding and obstinacy. This will allow us to take a close look at the social reality of the country," a Hyderabad Film Club press release said.

The club would screen nine films in the festival. These included I Think about Germany: We forgot to go back; Sevda means love; Weed; and German policemen.

The question of migration in Europe had left scars and memories that permeated through generations. While the first generation faced loneliness, the second generation experienced the drama between integration into the promised land and returning to the homeland. The third generation faces a daunting task - search for role models and patterns for living.

The third generation of migrants encountered a different problem altogether. It could neither contemplate going back to the motherland nor into the enclave of family and neighbours.

But, unlike its predecessors, it had got an advantage. It was equipped with art and other forms of expression to tell how it was like to live in two cultures.

It was in the sixties, the New German Cinema started focussing on the `guest workers'.

Protest against poverty and latent contempt was one of the key themes in the films that followed.

The pressure on the Turkish-German families reduced in the nineties. This phase marked the end of power of the parents and beginning of the search for role models and patterns for living in the third generation.

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