The lost prize of freedom
SYRIA: A filmmaker begins documenting a celebration of freedom in Aleppo but ends up documenting the devastating consequences of that dream.
Turkey
A timely tale of the age-old practice of arranged marriages
TRADITION: The moving story of a Turkish child bride trafficked to Europe –Red Moon is as much family therapy as a heart-rending road movie.
Turning national sentiments into business
The landmark of the WWI battle of Gallipoli in Turkey and the idolising of individual heroism has become the backbone for nationalist and populist sentiments – and for business.
Raising women’s voices
Turkey’s women’s festival may be a drop in the ocean of the poisoned patriarchy that pollutes the world, but its part of a current that is growing in power, pace and spread.
Exodus – Catch 22
The Chinese contemporary artist and filmmaker Weiwei delivers a captivating life and death fresco of homeless hordes of people in Technicolor.
State Of Denial
ARMENIAN GENOCIDE: Essential documentary fact checks Turkey’s sinister record of historical erasure.
Solidarity?
The West is increasingly being driven by populism and xenophobia, and time has come to exercise disobedience against the state powers.
