How Kirkcaldy became a new home for Polish war veterans

people posed in front of a building

The Polish Club in Kirkcaldy, Fife, has been a centre of social and cultural life for almost 70 years. It was founded by veterans who were unable to return home after fighting in World War Two. The club still provides an extended family to the children and grandchildren of those soldiers – along with a […]

‘Ayla: The Daughter of War’

turkish korean war veteran with his wife and the korean family

The touching real-life tale of a Turkish sergeant who saves a small Korean girl becomes long, heart-tugging fiction in Ayla: The Daughter of War, directed by Can Ulkay. The story is well-known both in South Korea and in Turkey, and was told in the 2010 South Korean doc Kore Ayla, which inspired the present film. A documentary feeling still […]