The Memory of the Stone

In 2015 the Turkish state’s violence in the Kurdish south-east took a new form, as towns across the region were placed under curfew and besieged by the army. Sur, the historic old town of Diyarbakır, was cut off for 116 days.

Despite the ban, a cameraman slipped into the district and filmed life under siege. The Memory of the Stone, by the Diagonal Break Film Collective, returns to his footage and to the people of Sur, who want the outside world to hear the hidden history of what happened there.