The Thing that Goes through Everything

20 min., The Netherlands/Turkey, 2022

Directors
Aylin Kuryel, Fırat Yücel

Producers
Özgür Doğan, Aylin Kuryel, Fırat Yücel

Editing
Aylin Kuryel

Participants
Kawa Nemir, Armağan Ekici, James Joyce Topluluğu, Cemil Yıldız, Ceren Kuşdemir Özbilek, Theater RAST, Şanoya Bajer a Amade

Cinematography
Aylin Kuryel, Fırat Yücel, Şener Özmen, Roy van Egmond

Sound mix
Özgür Doğan

Kawa Nemir undertakes a literary mission considered to be impossible: Translating James Joyce’s Ulysses to Kurdish, an oppressed language in Turkey, his country of origin. Due to the political conditions in Turkey, he takes refuge in Amsterdam as a writer in residence at Anne Frank’s former house where he continues this mission.
The Thing That Goes Through Everything is a piece that emerges from the translation process that evolved into the feature-length documentary Translating Ulysses.