Dirty Money
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.
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A short clip in three takes by Ali Ali tells us a story of someone – homeless, displaced or emigrated – who stays in the cold during the winter. Sleeping in the cold he awakes in his dreams in a comfortable bed, but the reality returns when this dream ends. Director – Ali Ali Camera […]
In The Dark Times
Culture in Exile Full HD, 85 min. Teaser of the documentary In The Dark Times by Thomas Büsch and Sabine Küper-Büsch. World premiere of the movie, June 15, 2016 at Pera Museum, Istanbul. IndieFest Film Awards, La Jolia, U S A 2016 – Section Documentary Feature, Award of Special Recognition „When a thousand were butchered and […]
RANTISTANBUL – TAKSIM MEYDAN II
Taksim square just one month before the Gezi Park uprising 2013 in Istanbul video created by mythones music: devrim ck (mythones), nilüfer ormanlı shootings and editing 28.02.2013 camera: jvc everio hdd (720×576) edit: fcpx
Left Over Work in Istanbul / Dolapdere − Beyoğlu
In this seven-minute documentary, we get to see how lively a flea market in Dolapdere/ Beyoğlu can be. We get the sense of a typical Turkish flea market where people bargain, break into conversations, have discussions on everything from the things we find in this market to musing about life itself. The camera captures all […]
Our Terrible Country
Our Terrible Country’ takes us on the perilous journey of Yassin Haj Saleh, a well-known Syrian intellectual and dissident, and the young photographer Ziad Homsi who travel together in an arduous and dangerous route from the liberated area of Douma/Damascus to Raqqa in northern Syria, only to find themselves eventually forced to leave their home […]
This is Why…
Members of the Shabia at a checkpoint in Syria. The nightmare of every Syrian oppositional is to be stopped by them. They are mistreating, torturing and killing people randomly. “This is Why…” is trying to put the spectator in the place of a Syrian civilian being stopped by two Shabia. The fear of the Syrian […]
Left Over Work in Istanbul / Taksim Meydanı − Beyoğlu
Since summer 2013, Taksim Meydanı has lost a lot of its usual sights but still many people pass by; businessmen, businesswomen, tourists, students and dustmen. The documentary focusses on dustmen and their daily walk through the Taksim Square and its surroundings. It shows their hard work of lugging around tonnes of garbage stashed in one […]
I Am No Bird
“Toyour” meets the reality of politics when the Trump administration’s travel ban forces Samer, a green card holder, to cancel international shows and puts into question the upcoming release of his album in Beirut.
Black Land
In this ongoing crisis we all experience, we discuss economic indicators or we focus on the impact of the crisis on people, whereas we flagrantly disregard the environment, as if we owned its natural wealth, renouncing any responsibility for its protection. Through a devastating fire that broke out in August 2012, Chios’ residents experienced in […]