Hello My Dear
Merhaba Canım
Watch hello my dear Gomovies. The documentary is titled after Arkadaş Z. Özger’s poem “Hello My Dear” which had caused much controversy in the period it was first published. Considered to be in defiance of heteronormativity, the said poem includes references to the poet’s personality, his family, his relationship to the society, and his “unexpected” death, which came three years after its publication. Today, 50 years after it was written, the documentary follows these same lines in the poem utilising cinematic elements. The documentary also rediscovers the poetics; reaches out to the family, the comrades, the friendships, departing from the official historical accounts, cognizant of his experience of otherness, in pursuit of the “lost” portrait of Arkadaş Z. Özger.
- Genre: Documentary
- Country: Turkey
- Director: Ulaş Tosun
- Cast: Arkadaş Z. Özger, Ahmed Saka, Ahmet İnam, Akın Evren, Cavit Kürnek, Deniz Ziya Temeltaş, Ertuğrul Kürkçü, Eşber Yağmurdereli, Halit Özboyacılar, Hüseyin Peker, İsmet Tokgöz, Necla Zarakol, Nejat Yetişir,
