How does education shape one’s everyday life? The protagonist in Blind Folded seems stuck in a situation where he’s cut off the access to a good life. Until, eventually, he finds an unexpected way to escape it. Directed by Dastan Nuri Scenario and Assistant Director: Medea Jalal Actor: Dalovan Khudeda Producer: Bebak Dawdi DOP: Mohammad

The City of Shingal in Northern Iraq had been taken by ISIS forces in 2014 a“and was taken back by Peshmerga fighters in November 2015. Shingal is a very intimate portrait of a city shaken the most brutally by the ongoing war. The director stays in the background, letting the images speak – along with

The Boy is a young bootblacker who works on the sidewalk for a small wage. When a man passing by loses his purse just in front of the boy’s booth, he gets tempted.. Directed by Raber Ibrahim Cast: Dedar Nizar, Kosalan Rashid and Karim Omar Camera: Raber Ibrahim  

Short movie taken in one single shot by Mais Mhd showing a girl from Aleppo begging for money main businees street in Istanbul. When Mais asked her what she wants to do in future she only asks for money.

This film was produced within a workshop conducted by artist-in-residence of the Kulturakademie Tarabya, Eva Maria Stotz, at Bahçeşehir University Istanbul April 2016. An empty house, a walk to the street of a strange city and the wish to live a life in freedom…..  

Impressions from Berlin August 2013: Featuring Thomas Büsch eating pieplant lemonade and eating Currywurst at the restaurant Nola’s am Weinberg closed to Brunnenstrasse in East Berlin. We visited Kunstraum Kreuzberg at Mariannenplatz to see the show, We are not just here for fun. It was about Berlin’s subcultures and their former palces of the 1990th

This film was produced within a workshop conducted by artist-in-residence of the Kulturakademie Tarabya, Eva Maria Stotz, at Bahçeşehir University Istanbul April 2016. Love Story of a Syrian student in Istanbul by Ayob Dogoz, Lilas Nassrat and Ranim Kesibi

Massimo is from Ethiopia and lives as a homeless person for more than two and a half years in an Athenian neighborhood. He spends his time painting relentlessly in his hut while finding food and colors for his paintings in a supermarket’s garbage can. He smokes the cigarette ends thrown by cars driving by and

An introduction video to Christina Kubisch’s Electrical Walks series of works. Electromagnetic radiations can be directly translated into the acoustic domain with the help of Christina Kubisch’s custom made special headphones. Awesome sounds can be heard with the headphones everywhere near any electrical or electronical device or installation, particularly in the cities, where there density

The map of Istanbul for tourists, which includes the Sultanahmed-Region and Beyoğlu, covers only about one or two percent of the real Istanbul map. In order to go beyond these two percent you can join an „alternative citiyguiding“ (or an architectural field trip as Orhan Esen calls it). Orhan Esen is active as a researcher, writer

Acclaimed geography academic and Professor of Anthropology at City University of New York provides an interview on urban issues in the district of Tarlabaşı Istanbul, an area in the last throes of evictions for the long-standing residents. Tarlabaşı is in the process of a gentrification programme to create an upscale housing and shopping district in the centre