This film is part of the Silk Screen Film Festival. Admission is free to Pitt students with an ID. Rarely explored in film, Memories of the Wind tackles the Armenian genocide in a subtle, yet affecting way. Aram is a poet on the run in the winter of 1943. Suspected of being a communist sympathizer, he is forced to flee Istanbul during the latter half of World War II. He winds up in secluded expanse of forest on the Soviet-Georgian border where a boorish Turkish man named Mikhail and a beautiful young Russian woman named Meryem provide shelter. A city man unable to cope with his new forest home, Aram is overtaken by recurring nightmares of his adolescence, namely a particular, traumatic event in 1915.

Director: Ozcan Alper
Cast: Onur Saylak, Sofya Khandemirova, Mustafa Ugurlu
Language: Turkish, with English subtitles