Edition: 2013

Selected by the Festival: JEAN ROUCH FILM FESTIVAL 2012, Paris, France

Award winner: SPECIAL MENTION “INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE PRIZE”

Year of production: 2011

Country of production: France, Turkey

Production: Amandine Faynot Production

Set in: Turkey

Duration: 23'

Film: Color

Directed by: Amandine Faynot

In Istanbul, the sacrifice of the sheep which used to be performed by the head of the household, is now practiced in a municipal public place. A recently adopted law prohibits individuals from carrying out this sacrifice in a non-specified place. Professional sacrificers now stage a codified, perfectly realized, mass killing. However, the transformation of the codes governing these rituals raises some questions: does the catharsis brought into play by sacrifice still exist when violence is institutionalized?