"Love Is A Verb" is an examination of a social movement of Turkish Muslims that began in Turkey in the l960s, The group called “Hizmet”, the Turkish word for “service” or The Gulen Movement after its inspiration and beloved teacher Fethullah Gulen. Through travels around the world the crew met teachers who crawled through a tunnel to open a school in Sarajevo during the war and the students whose lives they changed and a Sufi conductor whose orchestra is composed of children whose parents were once at war. They met a Kurdish teacher in Iraq who credits everything she is to her former Turkish teachers who stayed during the bombings, in Somalia we followed doctors putting their lives at risk in a place where other relief organizations have deemed too dangerous, a place where they sleep under armed guard.
