The film that is setting eyes on a war, to which the whole of country is exposed differently, through a shattered family, is focusing on a man’s ‘fatherhood‘, who is described as a ‘terrorist’ by some, whereas a ‘guerrilla” by some others. I Flew, You Stayed sets the audience out on a sad, full of conflict and realistic odyssey through the eyes of a young woman in pursuit of her father who had participated in the Kurdish guerrilla movement shortly after she was born.
I Flew, You Stayed is a movie recounting how the director, Mizgin Müjde Arslan, looks for her father in 2009 in order to make after her childhood in Mardin and then how she goes to the Makhmour Refugee Camp. Meanwhile she goes on asking the same question: Had he ever loved her?

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This feature documentary has received a number of awards, including the International Mirella Galetti Award, Turkish Federation of Film Critics 2012 Documentary of the year award and the International Amed Film Festival Best Documentary of the year award.
Festivals: Istanbul Film Festival, Golden Orange Film Festival, Trento Film Festival, London Turkish Film Festival, Hamburg Kurdish Film Week