- The 40 Years After Fatma is a documentary project about the change experienced by the Tahtacis, the actors of Suha Arin's film Tahtaci Fatma (a.k.a. Fatma of the Forest), over the past 40 years.
- It is an undeniable fact that the world and all societies have undergone radical changes in the 21st century. However, despite everything, Anatolia still hosts many cultures, communities, traditions, struggling for sustainability. Tahtacis is one of the communities that struggled in Anatolia's lifestyle that has been going on for centuries. For this reason, Tahtacis have been the subject of various fields of social sciences such as anthropology, sociology, and musicology. However, one of the most important works on Tahtacis is Suha Arin's documentary Fatma of the Forest in 1979. Fatma of the Forest, one of the first films in Turkish documentary history to deal with anthropological problems, is an influential production about the Tahtacis, their lifestyle, and professional struggles from the perspective of a 12-year-old girl, Fatma Simsek. In an interview with the said film in 1999, Suha Arin expressed that he was curious about Tahtacis because his communication with them was lost a long time ago and his will to go and make a new documentary examining today's lifestyles at the first opportunity. Suha Arin died on February 1, 2004, before he could realize this dream. So, how did Arin, who spent his life documenting the cultural heritage of Turkey, get the feeling that made him wonder about a society he met 20 years ago? What have the Tahtacis been able to do right in preserving their own culture at the end of the last 40 years? How successful have they been in this struggle for existence, which they have given right and wrong, and what changes have they shown? Are their sedentary life and efforts to stay together as a society a sufficient resistance to cultural erosion? The director of photography Hasan Ozgen and cameraman Savas Guvezne, who took part in the movie 40 Years After Fatma, accepted Suha Arin's intention as a testament. After 40 years, they will search the Tahtacis and 'Fatma' of the Forest, who continue their lives in the Akçaenis village of Antalya's Elmali district. While examining the self-identities, struggles, traditions, and living standards of Tahtacis that they are about to lose today, the reasons for Suha Arin's interest in them in 1979 will be revealed through archival documents, interviews, and undiscovered work files.
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