The 40 Years After Fatma

Directed by Suha Arın in 1979 Tahtacı Fatma is one of the earliest documentaries on the ethnic Tahtacı community In an interview conducted in 1999 Suha Arın mentions that he wished to make a followup film that includes updated information about their conditions as he had not been in touch since several years However Arın passed away in 2004 without realizing his wish Why was Arın curious again about a community whom he already worked with twenty years earlier The 40 Years After Fatma observes the changes which Tahtacıs went through with the company of documentarists who worked with Suha Arın back in 1979 at their native land