Friday 3 July 2026 2:30pm to 5:00pm
Fitzpatrick Hall, Queens' College Fitzpatrick Hall
Queens' College, Silver St, Cambridge CB3 9ETJoin us for a screening of Romeyka with community documentarist Mehmet Sarı, followed by a discussion with Professor Ioanna Sitaridou and interpretation by Dr Birgül Yılmaz. Discover the voices, language and heritage of the Romeyka-speaking community.
About
We are delighted to invite you to a Romeyka—or perhaps Roman?—related event this year: an afternoon of Romeyka voices and images with community member and filmmaker Mehmet Sarı.
Following the success of Sarı’s first film, The Sweat of Tears, which was screened at the Golden Tree International Documentary Festival in Frankfurt in 2019 and discussed by Professor Ioanna Sitaridou, we are pleased to present, for the first time, clips from his new documentary, The Cursed Forest. This new work brings together environmental storytelling and cultural documentation, offering a powerful reflection on language, memory, landscape, and community.
The event will celebrate Türkiye’s rich linguistic and cultural past and present, while exploring the many ways in which Greece and Türkiye share intertwined histories, experiences of loss, and common hopes for the future—rooted in respect and mutual understanding.
The screening will be followed by a discussion between filmmaker Mehmet Sarı with Professor Ioanna Sitaridou of the University of Cambridge, with interpretation by Dr Birgül Yılmaz of the University of Exeter.
To register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/empowering-romeyka-voices-an-afternoon-of-romeyka-films-tickets-1991450520114