Meteors

Sometimes an extraordinary political situation suddenly awakens us, reminding us that there are entire societies that, each day, continue resisting against the state of repression, crime and violence in which they find themselves living. Sometimes the cinema and the arts in general explicitly react to those situations and then we talk about those films as politically necessary cinema, making that (and only that) a virtue. But works such as Meteors, by Gürcan Keltek, also remind us of the formidable expressive power that film offers. On the cinema screen, the largest military operation by the Turkish government against the Kurdish people becomes a fascinating vision of horror through its poetic texture and contrast of its images, reminding us of the best Béla Tarr, and through a sound created around the memories and recordings of the Kurdish writer Ebru Ojen. From the urgent testimonies recorded with mobile phones to an exceptional meteor shower, there is a wonderful space, without complexes, where the most personal cinema is in dialogue, in capital letters, with our History. The best political film of the year. FERNANDO VÍLCHEZ