Özcan Alper, director of the International Antalya Film Festival "Competition" award for his film Rüzgarın Hatıraları" (Memories of Wind), starring Tuğba Büyüküstün, Onur Saylak and Menderes Samancılar, came together with cinema lovers in Bursa. During the panel session, Alper talked about his film that focused on Aram, the protagonist. Aram is a dissident poet and painter who has to leave Turkey at the end of World War II, and hides in a small mountain village near the Soviet border until his travel papers are arranged.Özcan AlperSaying that cinema cannot change the world, Alper stressed: "It is not right to deliver hope via films. If we search for the truth in all branches of art and the audience begins to talk about these truths, then we will have hope. Cinema cannot change the world, but the world might change if the audience begins to appreciate the world more than they appreciate themselves.""Cinema cannot change the world, but the world might change if the audience begins to appreciate the world more than they appreciate themselves," director Özcan Alper said.The director stressed that all social problems should be discussed publically, yet claimed that people cannot talk about most social problems. "As we cannot discuss our problems, the problems grow bigger and bigger, turning into something else. If we cannot talk or conduct politics at universities, meeting halls and on the streets, things can get out of our hands," Alper said. He argued that cinema should not get involved in politics. "We - the artists - may have social sensitivity; however, this does not require us to conduct politics on the silver screen. On the contrary, we have to tell people what is going on around us," Alper added. He also touched on the issue of the lack of public cinema halls in Turkey, and said: "We always say 'cinema is the art of our era,' but there are not enough cinema halls. There are only three public cinema halls in Turkey: One in Bursa, one in Batman and one in Şanlıurfa's Viranşehir district."