AYLAN BABY

By Omer SARIKAYA

BRIDGE OF PEACE FILM FESTIVAL - as FEST / PROMO

Drama - Completed 2019

Alan Kurdi (Kurdish: Alan Kurdî ), initially reported as Aylan Kurdi, was a three-year-old Syrian - The bodies of Kurdi and another child were discovered by two locals at around 6:30 am. The two men moved the bodies from the water,

Festivals
& Awards

Bridge of Peace 2023
Best Feature film
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Drama, Action/Adventure, Crime
    • Countries
    • TURKEY
    • Languages
    • TURKISH
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 80 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Omer SARIKAYA
    • Synopsis
    • Aylan Baby was one of a million. In the summer of 2015, the three-year-old Syrian boy of Kurdish origins and his family fled the war engulfing their country, hoping to join relatives in the safety of Canada. They were part of a historic flow of refugees from the Middle East to Europe this year, and they followed the dangerous route taken by so many others.
      In the early hours of Sept. 2, the family crowded onto a small inflatable boat on the beach of Bodrum, Turkey. A few minutes into the journey to Greece, the dinghy capsized. Alan, his older brother Ghalib and his mother Rihanna all drowned