Zîn Koçer

Zîn Koçer was born in 1980. She has worked in documentary film and photography for two decades, focusing on war, memory and the everyday life that continues alongside them. MÎRZA is her feature documentary about a fighter who keeps building after his body stops obeying.

I did not want to make a film about a wound. I wanted to film what happens after it — the long, unspectacular work of beginning again. Mirza builds tunnels; I filmed the tunnels he builds inside himself. Faith, love and stubbornness are the same material there.

When the body falls, resistance does not end; it changes address. It moves underground, into the hands, into the everyday. That is the film I tried to make: quiet, close, and refusing pity.