AGIR!

Rasim Asan is organizing this fundraiser.

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Title: Agir

Genre: fiction, drama-thriller

Length - Duration: 15-18 minutes

Synopsies

“When a Kurdish resistance fighter returns home to see her ailing mother, she is confronted with the years she had to miss her family. With the watchfull neughbours breathing down her neck, she searches for forgiveness, tries to overcome her guilt and finally has to accept that these are the last hours she can spend with her mother.”

Hi Everyone

Cinema is fascinating. It's a love, a passion for me. Since I was a child, I loved watching movies, I watched movies with great passion. It has always been my desire to be an actor and make movies. Finally I enrolled in the cinema school in Brussels and studied film directing for four years. I got my master's degree in film directing. After school I started writing the short film story Agir with my co-screenwriter Emiel Bachot. The story is very close to my heart and the country I come from! So it speaks to my direct emotional world. As a director, I find myself in this story. It's close to my past. The events of the story are of course fictionalized, but it is a story based on real events and inspired by my own past. I couldn't visit my mother when she was sick and when she died I came back home and it was too late, because they had already buried her. For this reason, every time I read this story I get very emotional. I have a great passion in my heart to make this movie. Even now, every frame of it flashes before my eyes like a movie, and I can't wait to capture this story on film.

We plan to shoot our movie in September 2025 in Almeria, Spain.

But we still need support from an economic point of view. Two years ago we received a grant from the VAF Flemish Ministry of Culture, but this alone is not enough to make the movie, that's why I am organizing this fundraising campaign, to complete the rest of our budget and make the movie. Any kind of support from you will bring us closer to making our movie and we will be able to make our movie. Thank you all very much in advance.

Bio

Rasim was born in the Southeast Anatolian region of Turkey, in Beytüssebap. At the age of seven he moved with his family to the city of Mersin, a large port city on the Mediterranean coast in the south of Turkey. After graduating from high school in Mersin, Rasim has been working as an actor in several theater institutes/settings in Turkey.

Rasim took part in activism and Kurdish cultural activities, such as theater and language. Due to the political climate Rasim was repeatedly arrested and suppressed in his activism on democracy and

Kurdish culture.

The tension of being sentenced and jailed became most imminent, even unavoidable and there- fore Rasim had to flee the country.

Rasim came to Belgium under the status of political refugee, learned dutch and started his studies at RITCS School of Arts in Brussels.

In 2021 Rasim graduated as Master in Audiovisual Arts - Film Directing.

Rasim currently lives in Brussels.