Hello My Dear

Hello My Dear (2021) is a documentary film directed by Ulaş Tosun rated 7.5/10.

The documentary is titled after Arkadaş Z. Özger’s poem “Hello My Dear” which had caused much controversy in the period it was first published. Considered to be in defiance of heteronormativity, the said poem includes references to the poet’s personality, his family, his relationship to the society, and his “unexpected” death, which came three years after its publication. Today, 50 years after it was written, the documentary follows these same lines in the poem utilising cinematic elements. The documentary also rediscovers the poetics; reaches out to the family, the comrades, the friendships, departing from the official historical accounts, cognizant of his experience of otherness, in pursuit of the “lost” portrait of Arkadaş Z. Özger.

Cast

Arkadaş Z. Özger

Ahmed Saka

Narrator

Ahmet İnam

Akın Evren

Cavit Kürnek

Deniz Ziya Temeltaş

Ertuğrul Kürkçü

Eşber Yağmurdereli

Halit Özboyacılar

Hüseyin Peker

İsmet Tokgöz

Necla Zarakol