Synopsis
Krunk, meaning crane in Armenian, takes its name from
a traditional song about a bird that carries messages
between those in exile and their lost homeland. This poetic
documentary follows Tuğçe, a young woman volunteering
at a Christian retirement home in Istanbul, where she forms
a deep friendship with Astğik, a hundred-year-old survivor
of the Armenian catastrophe. On her deathbed, Astğik
entrusts her with her only photograph of her father and
uncles, taken before they were killed in 1915, and begins to
recount a story she had kept hidden for a century. Tuğçe
then travels to Astğik's hometown, Merzifon, where she
learns to read the small hints that uncover the erased
history of its previous inhabitants. Her search into her
friend's past becomes an archeology of the threads and
knots that hold many lives together, including her own.
a traditional song about a bird that carries messages
between those in exile and their lost homeland. This poetic
documentary follows Tuğçe, a young woman volunteering
at a Christian retirement home in Istanbul, where she forms
a deep friendship with Astğik, a hundred-year-old survivor
of the Armenian catastrophe. On her deathbed, Astğik
entrusts her with her only photograph of her father and
uncles, taken before they were killed in 1915, and begins to
recount a story she had kept hidden for a century. Tuğçe
then travels to Astğik's hometown, Merzifon, where she
learns to read the small hints that uncover the erased
history of its previous inhabitants. Her search into her
friend's past becomes an archeology of the threads and
knots that hold many lives together, including her own.