Countdown for 'In the Footsteps of Börklüce': 'It's not over, the fight is still going on...'

The documentary film titled 'In the Footsteps of Börklüce' will be screened in İzmir/Selçuk on September 6, 2025, and in Karaburun on September 13, as part of the Börklüce and Culture and Arts Festival.

A photography exhibition bearing the same name as the film will also be opened.

The film, which touches upon Börklüce Mustafa (Dede Sultan) and his comrades, who rebelled against the deep poverty, power struggles and oppression of the people during the Ottoman Empire's Interregnum period approximately 600 years ago, traces the rebellion and the Karaburun commune from Tire to Karaburun, from Selçuk to Chios Island, through the narratives of historians.

The film and photography exhibition, shot with the contributions of İzmir Eğitim-Sen Branch No. 6, offers a contemporary perspective on Şeyh Bedreddin and Börklüce's understanding of a fairer, more equal world based on shared ownership.

Sheikh Bedreddin's words, "The moon and the sun are everyone's lamps, air is everyone's air, water is everyone's water. Why isn't bread everyone's bread?" come from centuries ago and are brought to the present day by Nazım Hikmet's lines, "From the beloved's cheek, everywhere, in everything, we are all together."

The director of the film and the curator of the photography exhibition is documentary photographer Serkan Çolak.

From Aristonicus' "Helipolitai" to the Karmatis

From the Truth of Hallaj-i Mansur to Husayn al-Ahlati

From the utopia of Sheikh Bedreddin Börklüce to today's world;

'It's not over, that fight is still going on.

and it will continue

Until the earth becomes the face of love!'