Parallel Trips is a 2004 Turkish-Greek-Cypriot documentary film

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

, written, produced and directed by Derviş Zaim

Dervis Zaim

Derviş Zaim is a Turkish Cypriot filmmaker and novelist, who has twice won the Golden Orange for Best Director for Elephants and Grass and Dot ; Golden Oranges for Best Film and Best Screenplay for Somersault in a Coffin ; and the Yunus Nadi literary prize for his debut novel Ares in Wonderland...

 and Panicos Chrysanthou

Panicos Chrysanthou

Panicos Chrysanthou is a Cypriot filmmaker and documentarian, who has won the Abdi İpekçi Peace Award for his film Our Wall.- Biography :...

, in which the two directors, from opposite sides of the divided island of Cyprus

Cyprus

Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...

, 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.

Festival Screenings

• Bodrum International Documentary Film Festival (2004)
• Istanbul International Film Festival (2004)
• 12th London Turkish Film Festival (2004)

Reviews

Time Out London says that this, ambitious documentary, is a lengthy, slow-paced series of anecdotes narrated by those who experienced the horror of the troubles in Cyprus, both Turkish and Greek, which is, at times difficult to watch and poorly subtitled, This is a film, by the end of which peace, community and the experience of war take on much deeper meanings, where, the good nature of the people recounting their stories makes the actions of the past all the more incomprehensible.