Documentary/Film Screenings

Since 2022, the Ibn Haldun University Sociology Days, which we have turned into a tradition, has included a documentary/film screening accompanying the academic panels in accordance with the theme and concept determined each year. Visual narratives offer a strong and multidimensional opportunity to understand how broad issues discussed within the theme each year, such as oppressed bodies, migration, resistance, power, identity, and the production of knowledge, are experienced and brought into discussion in everyday life. For this reason, by including film/documentary screenings in the symposium program, we aim to reopen social experiences for discussion in the light of an academic setting.

Within the scope of Sociology Days, by bringing documentaries that shed light on different social experiences to the audience each year, we expand the space of discussion into the dimension of media. In this framework, documentary screenings organized in different years aim to enrich academic discussions with visual narratives and invite the audience to think from different perspectives.

2022

In the Sociology Days that we organized for the first time in 2022, the documentary/film screenings were initiated with Crossroad / Üç Yol directed by Faysal Soysal. Through individual life stories, this film addressed social ruptures, migration, and questions of belonging, offering the audience the opportunity to reflect on the points where different life experiences intersect. The discussions held after the screening contributed to evaluating the themes addressed in the film from a sociological perspective.

2023

In 2023, the documentary Ahıska Türkleri Belgeseli (Director: Ömer Beyoğlu) was screened. The documentary addressed the historical migration experiences of the Ahıska Turks in the context of collective memory and identity construction, offering the audience the opportunity to reflect on issues such as historical trauma, belonging, and diaspora. This screening opened migration, memory, and identity debates to reconsideration within an academic framework.

2024

In 2024, Bir Gün Ben de Öleceğim (Director: Neslihan Kültür) was screened. Through individual life experiences, the film opened a space for reflection on human vulnerability, the temporariness of life, and the meaning of social relations. The discussions held after the screening contributed to the sociological evaluation of the relationship between individual experiences and social reality.

2025

In 2025, the documentary Kutsal İşgal (Director: Aslıhan Eker Çakmak) was screened. Through this documentary, issues such as sacredness, space, and power relations were opened for discussion. While the film provided an opportunity to reflect on the social and political meanings of places considered sacred, it invited the audience to question how space turns into a field of power and meaning production.

As part of the 5th Sociology Days Symposium, organized in 2026 around the theme Changing Society: Transformation in Power, Identity, and Knowledge, a documentary/film screening will accompany the academic panels.