The Seven Doors (Yedi Kapı): A Film Screening and Conversation with Mehmet Kurt (Director) and Yusuf Kurt (Producer)

In the political context of Turkey, the education system has deteriorated by the year, morphed into the object of hopeless experiments to the detriment of the youth.  The Seven Doors documents seven students, who alongside their teacher attempt to develop an alternative education model where reading, thinking, discussion, and attempts of understanding are upheld in place of conflictual ideologies. 

The Seven Doors offers a unique insight into present day Turkey through these seven students' yearning for an urgent alternative in the education system, as political tensions heighten and governmental pressure on academia increases.  

Mehmet Kurt is a scholar, filmmaker, and human rights activist from Turkey, whose research lies at the intersection of political science, sociology, and ethnography with a specific focus on political Islam and civil society in Kurdish Turkey and among the Turkish diaspora in Europe. He is the FSI-Humanities Center Christopher Family International Visitor, 2018-19.

Yusuf Kurt is a film producer and youth worker who has produced a dozen of well received documentary films displaying the everyday lives of ordinary people on the borderlands of Turkey, Syria, and Iraq.