In the Press (Selection)

“Both the CD and the DVD release of “Our Islands” is truly an ANTIDOTE. A remedy to extract and eliminate the poison of those who have turned the country against each other through discrimination.

Nedim Hazar, who has produced dreamlike works in Germany with the group Yarınistan, directed this documentary. It is a bright document of how magnificent works can be produced when the director is completely free.”

“‘Women of the Island’, with its focus on female subjectivity and women’s experiences, is a work that should not go unmentioned for its feminist sensitivity. It is also possible to consider its creator, Nedim Hazar, within a ‘pro-feminist’ line. Here’s hoping for more like this!..”

“The official name of the series-documentary is ‘Valley’ but it reveals its originality right from the start with “Ah, this is the Senoz stream”. There is none of the boredom and monotony of documentaries made with the ‘let’s visit our villages’ mentality, because people narrate their lives, the place they live, and their relationships with all their naturalness.”

“In the 70s, Nedim Hazar was recorded in police records as ‘inciting strikes with an accordion’. Now, following the tracks of songs that have become part of our personal history, from the backstreets of Beyoğlu with its folk music bars to the highlands of Sivas and the Kırkpınar area, he records songs from the 60s and 70s that are still not forgotten today, thus ‘provoking the Soundtrack of Our Lives’!”