Based Down South is a 2010 German-Turkish 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 and directed by Martina Priessner about four Turks born in Germany but who now live in Istanbul. The film was selected for the 29th International Film Festival Istanbul, where it premiered, 53rd International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Films, 16th London Turkish Film Festival

16th London Turkish Film Festival

The 16th London Turkish Film Festival is a film festival held in London, England which ran from November 4 to 18, 2010. During the course of the festival seventeen feature films and two programmes of shorts were presented at the Apollo Theatre and the Rio Cinema.The festival began with an opening...

 and the 13th Istanbul International 1001 Documentary Film Festival.

Synopsis

What Buelent, Murat, Fatos and Ciğdem share are memories of their childhood and youth in Germany. Now all of them live in Istanbul, three against their will. Fatos and Murat were forced to go to Turkey by their parents, Buelent was deported five years ago. Only Cigdem, the young manager with a German passport freely opted for a life in Istanbul. But even after decades in their parents country of origin, the other three have never really managed to make it their home. Insteas, they have constructed a surrogate Germany for themselves.

Festival screenings

• 29th International Film Festival Istanbul (April 3-18, 2010)
• Documentarist: Documentary Days of Istanbul (June 22-27, 2010)
• 16th Film Presentation Baden-Württemberg (December 1 – 5, 2010)
• 16th London Turkish Film Festival
  16th London Turkish Film Festival
  The 16th London Turkish Film Festival is a film festival held in London, England which ran from November 4 to 18, 2010. During the course of the festival seventeen feature films and two programmes of shorts were presented at the Apollo Theatre and the Rio Cinema.The festival began with an opening...
  
  (November 4-18, 2010)
• 13th Istanbul International 1001 Documentary Film Festival
• 53rd International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Films (Oktober 18-24, 2010)