‘Autumn’ Gives a Face and a Voice to Hemshin Narrative at the MFA

BOSTON, Mass. (A.W.) — On April 5, the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) presented the last installment of its 8th Annual Boston Turkish Film and Music Festival with the U.S. Premiere of Hamshen-Armenian director Ozcan Alper’s film “Autumn” (“Sonbahar”). The film revolves around Yusuf. Imprisoned for demonstrating against the Turkish government as a student in the Communist party, he is released after 10 years after contracting tuberculosis while in prison. He returns to his kind but s