Min Dît: The Children of Diyarbakır (Kurdish: Min Dît / Turkish: Ben Gördüm) is an award-winning 2009 Turkish drama film, written, produced and directed by German-based Kurdish filmmaker Miraz Bezar, based on a story co-written with Alevi-Kurdish journalist and short-story writer Evrim Alataş, who died of lung cancer shortly after the film was released. The film, which is about street children in the eastern Turkish city of Diyarbakır and was the first film from Turkey to feature the Kurdish language, won awards at numerous festivals including the 57th San Sebastian International Film Festival, where it premiered, the 46th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival and the 29th International Istanbul Film Festival.
The lives of 10-year-old Gülistan and her brother, Fırat, are turned upside down one quiet and dark night on the Diyarbakır-Batman highway while they’re on their way home with their parents from a wedding in a nearby village. Their father, a journalist working with a local newspaper, and their mother, who gave birth just six months ago to their baby sister, Dilovan, are murdered by paramilitary forces. The kids are taken care of by their aunt, the sister of their late mother. However, a few weeks on, their aunt goes missing, too. Left alone to look after their baby sister at such a young age, when they are not even capable of taking care of themselves, the kids are left penniless, and a few weeks later, they are forced to live on the streets of Diyarbakır, where they will have to fight really hard to survive. —Wikipedia
