Turkey
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State Of Denial
ARMENIAN GENOCIDE: Essential documentary fact checks Turkey’s sinister record of historical erasure.
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Solidarity?
The West is increasingly being driven by populism and xenophobia, and time has come to exercise disobedience against the state powers.
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TURKISH WOMEN’S OUTLOOK: From the Bridge between East and West
Although there is practically no market for documentary films in Turkey, a vivid, independent film scene has developed over the past few years, reflecting the lebensgefühl and the social and political awareness of filmmakers who grew up in the dual culture of a country struggling to define its pivotal place as a bridge between East…
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Not a Word about Belly Dancing
TUE STEEN MÜLLER visited Istanbul just before the Iraq War started. He found an isolated, politically engaged, relatively big documentary community that organizes a festival, a conference and numerous other promotional activities all based on a cultural political vision. A community of activists who prefer to debate the filmmaker’s role in society rather than dwell…
