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Faultlines engages radically with silent contributors to the disaster, such as systemic corruption, contractors and unplanned development. It also chronicles problems earthquake victims experienced during the rescue effort, and in post-quake issues such as relief aid, housing, heating, health, and schools. Unified in their belief that the government abandoned them during and after the disaster, the film documents a resistance movement organized by survivors the year following the earthquake.
The film's main character is 19-year old Bora, who lost 28 people from his family. His emotional and political transformation is juxtaposed with events following the quake.
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Faultlines
is an exposé of the aftermath of the earthquake that hit Turkey
at a magnitude of 7.4 on the Richter scale, killing 40,000 people. It
is a personal chronicle in that the director, Eylem Kaftan goes back to
her hometown -- the quake's epicenter -- to find it in shambles. The film
adds a political dimension to disasters by showing that the effects of
the earthquake weren't solely linked to a "sudden release of energy
in the Earth's crust."
The
1999 earthquake in Turkey showed two conflicting sides of humanity: those
who give unconditionally and those who take advantage.
Shot
in Turkey through survivors' testimonies, Faultlines shows that
there are silent dimensions to any disaster which scar a people no less
than the disaster itself.