»Dilim Dönmüyor – Meine Zunge dreht sich nicht is a search into my family’s past and present. In fragments from the lives of three generations, the film narrates of the painful family separation through migration, of the loss of their Kurdish identity and of the search for home.«
– Serpil Turhan

In 1973, Serpil Turhan’s parents migrated from Turkey to Berlin. For more than 30 years, her mother did not return to her home village of Erzincan in Anatolia. So, in 2011, the daughter took the opposite tack and accompanied her grandparents there, only to find an abandoned village alive only in grandparental memories. For the first time, they tell their granddaughter about their childhood – stories of a life before migration. Back in Berlin, Ms Turhan sets about documenting the lives of her parents. She talks to them about their experiences in Germany,  about their memories of the home village and why they no longer speak Kurdish.
Dilim Dönmüyor illuminates the daily life, customs and memories of a family wedged between two worlds.