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SCREENINGS

17-23/04/2020 - Tiburon International Film Festival - California - UNITED STATES (CANCELLED)

​20/03/2020 - Opening Film - Türkischen Filmtage München - GERMANY (CANCELLED)

26/06/2020 - Saz Festival - Scala - Ludwigsburg - GERMANY (CANCELLED)

15, 21, 26/01/2020 - Sofia MENAR Film Festival - Sofia - BULGARIA

14/12/2019 - International Amity Short Film Festival - Istanbul - TURKEY​

27/11/2019 - DokuBaku On Tour - Qazakh - AZERBAIJAN​

29/11/2019 - Kurdische Filmtage Leipzig 2019 - Leipzig - GERMANY

29/11/2019 - DokuBaku On Tour - Gedebey - AZERBAIJAN

13,16,17,20, 24 /11/2019 - Cine Doc Greece Festival - Athen, Patras, Thessaloniki - GREECE

31/10/2019 - Türkisches Film Festival Frankfurt - GERMANY

10/10/2019 - Arabische Film Festival Tübingen GERMANY

03/10/2019 - Doku Baku - Baku - AZERBAIJAN

23/09/2019 - Adana Film Festival, TURKEY

10, 12/09/2019 - Duhok International Film Festival, IRAK

01/09/2019 - Soundtrack Cologne, GERMANY
20/08/2019 - Kino Moviemiento BerlinGERMANY -
07/08/2019 - Kurdisch film Festival BerlinGERMANY - Closing Film - 

11/04/2019 - Deutschland FilmpremiereGERMANY - RadialSystem V Berlin - Germany -  

9/04/2019 - Istanbul Film Festivali World Premiere, TURKEY

THE FILM

In a personal quest for meaning, brilliant musician Petra Nachtmanova travels for weeks on the roads from Berlin, all the way to Iran with one question:

"Can you teach me a song

you think I should bring back home?”.

On her back, a legendary instrument opening doors and hearts: the Saz

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It’s the journey of her life:

Petra Nachtmanova journeys to both the end of the world and the centre of her heart.

 

Saz on her back, the Berlin musician heads off in search of the origins of a string instrument tangled in myths, which found its way to her in the streets of Kreuzberg.

Anchor 1

She travels from Berlin to Istanbul, through Anatolia, over the snowy peaks of the Caucasus and into the dusty desert of eastern Iran. She meets Bosnian instrument makers, music teachers who climb mountains in suits and chain-smoking Turkmen who possibly invented blues rock.

Anchor 2

She has one request for each encounter:

‘Play me a song that I can take home with me’.

 

First she meets skeptical amazement. Then enthusiasm. And finally, deep trust.

Anchor 3

‘Saz’ is a film about the power of music and the scope of the world, simultaneously a road movie and a quest for meaning,

a breathtaking trip in the border region between Europe and Asia,

which shows that despite conflict and crisis,  there is a human everyday life out there,  as well as something special that holds us together.

Anchor 4

THE SAZ COLLECTION

The Saz Collection

SAZ presents:

“The SAZ Collection”

 

After the music road-movie documentary from Berlin To Khorassan

The SAZfilm team will publish all the Music Videos filmed along the road

From 1st Dec 2019 - More than 60 songs & Musicians - Published 2 times per week. 

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The SAZ Collection - Petra Nachtmanova with Kadıköy Sessions
The SAZ Collection - Petra Nachtmanova with Kadıköy Sessions

The SAZ Collection - Petra Nachtmanova with Kadıköy Sessions

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The SAZ Collection - Erjad Karpuzi

The SAZ Collection - Erjad Karpuzi

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The SAZ Collection - Fran Kodra

The SAZ Collection - Fran Kodra

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The SAZ Collection - Hasan Kuzu Gökte - Uçan Telli Turnam

The SAZ Collection - Hasan Kuzu Gökte - Uçan Telli Turnam

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TEAM

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Stephan Talneau

Film Director, Camera & Editing

www.stephantalneau.com

Petra Nachtmanova

Protagonist & Music Researcher

Petranachtmanova.com

Florent Chaintiou

Field Sound Recording & Mixing

https://www.nadanadi.de/

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Selcen Kucukustel 

Assistant Director - Turkey

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Tea Mikic 

Assistant Director - Bosnia

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Yalda Yazdani

Assistant Director - Iran

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Verjana Abazaj

Assistant Director - Albania

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Rashid Aghamaliyev

Assistant Director - Azerbaijan

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Neda Milanova

Assistant Director - Bulgaria

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Film Music

Ceyhun Kaya, Tralalka, OKO, Amine Mesnaoui , BaBa ZuLa

Translations

Yasemin Ural , Emma Greenfield, Golnar Tabibzadeh, Selcen Küçüküstel, Rashid Aghamaliyev, Gülistan Yiğit, Denys Vasyliev

Many thanks to the musicians:

Berlin: Hasan Kuzu, Ali Ekber Akşahin, Carmelo Leotta, Bülent Emir, Deniz Mahir Kartal, Engin Işık, Erkut Kaya, Seçkin Karasu, Adir J Tekin Kosovo: Erjad Karpuzi, Reshat Murati Turkey: Murat Ertel, Arif Sağ, Engin Arslan, La Trio, Emre Dayıoğlu, Osman Kırca, Ali Ulutaş, Aydın Çekiç, Burhan Ertaş, Kul Kemal Işık, Sakine Işık, Rabia Zorlu Tbilisi: Şamil Hüseynov, Renat Hüseynov, Şöhret Hüseynova Aghstafa: Aşıq İlqar Qelemçeli, Aşıq Hüseyin Hüseyinov, Aşıq Rauf İsmayilov, Aşıq Mahir Aslanov, Gədəbəy Aşıq Məktəbi: Etibar Əliyev, Aşıq Şahin Əkberov, Aşıq Araz Hasanov, Aşıq Zülfüqar Samilov, Aşıq Mübariz Ceferov ve çocuklar

Thank you for all your support:

Volker Barth, Betrand Glosset, Emine Bütüner, Elise Lein, Jochen Sandig, Philipp Griess, Aurelie Païta, Ece Pazarbaşı, Philipp Dümcke, Brigitte Kramer, Jörg Jeshel, Thorsten Niemann, Cihan Şimşek, Yaman Kaya, Ahmet Yurdakul, Ali Ekber Akyol, Taner Akyol, Joël Betton, Hubert Kolland, Nevzat Çiftçi, TD Plattform, Metin Ürgen, Tom Ehrhardt, Mano Eigen, Eddy Wong, Bruno Quelennec, Antoine Villoutreix, Romain Grandjean, Celine Marin, Damien Orcel, Milo Orcel, Arthur Lochmann, Guillaume Breton, Małgorzata Stawowczyk, Eléonore Fourniau, Gülay Hacer Toruk, Cangül Kanat, Jerôme Cler, Prof. Dr. Mandy Schulze, Tamo Chaintiou, Naël Chaintiou, Laetitia Verbauwhede, Zoe Çelebi, Elio Çelebi

BALKANS

Selmir Šljivić, Artan Malaj, Berkant Curi, Jetmir Misini, İsmail Pireliev, Katya Barulova, Krassi Jeliazkov, Bozhko

TURKEY

Cenk Güray, Hasan Saltık, Haris Rigas, Emre Nişanci, Fatih Bildencan, Müjde Yazıcı Ergin, İsmail Altunsaray, Begüm Karahan, Doğa Okulu, Nazender Süzer Gökçe, Gürsel Gökçe, the family of Aşık Veysel, Yücel Paşmakçı, Ilgın Su, Selim Şükrü Atakan, Sevinç Yeşiltaş, Mercan Erzincan, Şener Temelli, Öner Temelli, Yener Temelli (Aşıklar Kahvesi Erzurum)

GEORGIA

Mirze Feteli Axundov Museum of Azerbaijani Culture in Tbilisi, Aşıq Mehman Memmedov (Sadaxli House of Culture),

the People of Kepenekçi Village

AZERBAIJAN

Jahangir Mamadov, Asif Ibrahimov, Olga Aghamaliyeva, Eldar Aghamaliyev, Sehfayet Əliyev and family, the family of Akif İsmayilov, Selman Tosun and family, Əlekber İlyasov, Mikayil Əsedov, Elshan İsmayilov, Ibrahim Ahmadov, Gurban Əlekberov, Naiba Şirinova,

Nargiz Baghirzade, Ali Isa Jabbarov

IRAN

Babak Rahati, Mojtaba Yousefi, Majid Tekkeh, Hamed Bolland, Eskandar Shahryari, Mehrdad Varasteh (Naghmeh Music Institute in Hamedan), Ayyoub Saeidi, Kaveh Sadeghi, Hemmat Agh and his family, Said Akbarzadeh (Atro Reisebüro), Saleh Mirsaeedi

We thank all the people we met for their incredible hospitality

and the people who helped and supported the project during the many years of development.

Developed with the support of

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A Production of

ANTHRO MEDIA GbR Wesnigk & Barth

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