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A stone room with sedir benches along the walls, tea on a low table, lamps in niches; in the wall, a window that is a screen

Ahıska Club TV · evening broadcast

The cinema of our people.

Films by Orpola studio and everything others have filmed about us. Sit closer — the lights are going down.

All films

Evening screening · a sample schedule — the community will set the time

One film — for everyone at once.

One time for Bursa, Almaty and Ohio: the film starts for everyone together, as it once did in the village club.

A sample evening · Orpola Studio

Dağlar ağladı

A historical and poetic musical film about the 1944 deportation — from the rainy mountains of Ahıska to the dusty stations of Central Asia. Dedicated to the author’s grandmother and to everyone who walked that road.

at 21:00 Istanbul time

This is an example: the community will choose the evening’s time and film. Then a reminder will appear here.

Channel 1

Orpola Studio

Our own films: we shoot, edit and write the music ourselves. Here they play right in the room.

ORPOLAour own films

ORPOLA ORIGINAL · Memory

Dağlar ağladı

A historical and poetic musical film about the 1944 deportation — from the rainy mountains of Ahıska to the dusty stations of Central Asia. Dedicated to the author’s grandmother and to everyone who walked that road.

Orpola Studio · also on YouTube

Watch in the room

Ahıska HikâyeleriAnimated series · short episodes about our people: history, food, customs. In Turkish.

Channel 2

From the web

Documentary series and programmes about our people. The video stays on the author’s channel, their name is on every work, and the views go to them.

Ahıska SürgünüTRT Avaz · 4 parts · Memory

Büyük Sürgün KafkasyaTRT Nostalji · 4 parts · Memory

Ahıska TürkleriTRT Avaz · 6 parts · Stories

Programmes

Suggest a film

Work by other authors is published only with their permission, with the author’s name and a link to the original. The rights stay with the authors.

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A documentary or report about the Ahıska people
A vlog about a trip to Ahıska, the family homeland
Food, wedding customs, songs and dances
A mother-tongue lesson or a look at the dialect

Orpola Studio films and other authors’ work play through YouTube: we do not copy the files, and the views go to the authors.