Nosema is a story of death in the guise of rebirth, of a couple before their disappearance last summer. Hürmüz and Şimuni Diril had to rebuild their homes for the eighth time as it was bombed and burned down in the middle of an armed conflict which forced them several times to leave their village Meer, one of the last remaining Chaldean Catholic villages in Turkey. On October 2019, they reunited with their children as usual, but this time proved to be the last as they disappeared from their home several months later. Şimuni Diril’s body was eventually discovered, Hürmüz Diril is still missing.
Technical Specs2021 - 16:9 - 2K DCP - Color - 5.1 - Syriac, Turkish, Kurdish with English, German, Italian, Turkish subtitles
CrewDirector Etna Özbek
Producer Burak Karamete
Editor Özgürcan Uzunyaşa
Cinematography Etna Özbek
Composers Joe Conchie, Anıl Bozkırlı
Screenings22nd Boston Turkish Film and Music Festival, Screening Selection. 2023
Festival L'Europe Autour de L'Europe 2022, Compétition Prix Sauvage Corto
Ischia Film Festival 2022, Location Negata
9th Vancouver Turkish Films Festival, Short Film Screening Selection. 2022
20th Filmmor International Traveling Women's Film Festival, Women's Cinema Section, Screening Selection. 2022
4th Taste of Anatolia Films from Turkey, Cambridge, Screening Selection. 2022
10th Seattle Turkish Films Festival, Documentary Screening Selection. 2022
54th SİYAD Turkish Cinema Awards, Short Documentary Nominee. 2022
33rd Munich Turkish Film Days, Documentary Section, Special Screening Selection. 2022
3rd Orient Express Film Days, Switzerland, Screening Selection. 2022
17th Boston Turkish Documentary and Short Film Competition, Documentary Category, Special Mention Award. 2022
42nd İFSAK National Short Film and Documentary Competition, Documentary Category, First Prize. 2022
IDFA 2021 Frontlight
40th Istanbul International Film Festival, National Documentary Competition, Mention Award. 2021
22nd Izmir Short Film Festival, Panorama Section, Screening Selection. 2021
14th Documentarist Istanbul Documentary Days, Turkey Panorama Section, Screening Selection. 2021
11th Which Human Rights? Film Festival, Turkey Screening Selection. 2021
11th European Union Human Rights Film Days, Screening Selection. 2021
