Actress Ayça Damgaci, together with photographer Tümay Göktepe, follows the paths of her father's emigration years ago. While the journey that started from Istanbul with Ismet Damgaci, 87, a Thracian immigrant, continues to Xanthi, Thessaloniki and Athens, Patrida makes us think about the concept of homeland.—MUBI
Directory Ayca Damgaci sets out with her father Ismet Damgaci in this documentary. They are doing the forced migration journey that he started during Ottoman Empire with his family, in reverse to Greece and Switzerland. Meanwhile, they question the identities ascribed to them throughout their lives.