Bitter Sweet

Nermin moves to Germany with her three daughters in 1963. A single mother, she works as a tailor in factories. Nermin is 83 now, diagnosed with Alzheimer disease, staying at a nursing home in Stuttgart. Her daughter looks for ways to rebuild the memories of Nermin. Didem is a documentarist who was born in Dortmund, now living in Istanbul. She has a special relationship with her grandmother whose footprints she decides to follow. She goes to Germany from Istanbul by train just like her grandmother did in the 60s. This train takes us on a time travel. Bitter Sweet shapes around the filmmaker’s inner voice and approaches the migration issue through a personal and emotional mirror.

DİDEM ŞAHİN

She graduated from the TV and Cinema Department of the Marmara University and studied scriptwriting at Birkbeck University. She completed her MA in Documentary Filmmaking at the Brunel University in London. Her first film Don’t Tell My Mum That I Am Going to Beirut was named the Best Turkish Documentary by Turkish Film Critics’ Association in 2007. She was one of the “Talents” in Berlinale Talent Campus, 2010. She produced and directed documentaries for one of the major TV Channels for 3 years. Her documentaries shot in several countries like Malaysia, Gambia, Mongolia, Russia, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Turkey were screened and awarded in many festivals.