23 Cents Soldier

23 Cents Soldier is shaped around the memories of 4 Turkish (Ali Dagbağlı, Mehmet Aksoy, Mehmet Cemil Yasar, Yüksel Yildirim) and 3 Korean (Jonghwan Kim, Imbum Lee, Eulchol Moon) war veterans. The interviews begin with the lives of the veterans before the beginning of the war and continue with memories of war and post-war era. The veterans who participated in the Korean war over 70 years ago are now in their 90s. The vast majority of them passed away so every sentence they utter can be considered as a legacy for the future. After returning from the war, the veterans named their shops "Korean" and they were nicknamed "the Korean" for life. In the end, being a veteran was a great honor for all of them and maybe that was their biggest gain.

Mümin Barış
Mumin Baris was born in Kircaali, Bulgaria in 1984. After studying film directing in FAMU, he received his master’s degree in Film Studies from King’s College London. Currently, he's studying in Filmuniversitat Babelsberg Konrad Wolf as a PhD candidate in artistic-theoretical film studies and working as a lecturer in the Fine Arts Faculty of Akdeniz University. His last short A Fertile Day competed at the Trieste Film Festival in 2021.