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Parallel Trips is a film of genre Documentary directed by Derviş Zaim

Parallel Trips (2003)

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Parallel Trips (Turkish: Paralel Yolculuklar) is a 2004 Turkish-Greek-Cypriot documentary film, written, produced and directed by Derviş Zaim and Panicos Chrysanthou, in which the two directors, from opposite sides of the divided island of Cyprus, record the human dramas that unfolded during the war of 1974 and the legacy that remains today. The film was screened at the Istanbul International Film Festival and the 12th London Turkish Film Festival.
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