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Land, Labor and Alienation in Gentrifying Istanbul—‘Saf’, dir. Ali Vatansever, 2018

Migrant and local workers compete for jobs, as the urban sprawl overtakes the neighborhoods: a searing second feature centered around a young couple, where the husband suddenly goes missing

August 18th, 2020|Country: Germany, Romania, Turkey|

One Afghan Family’s Clandestine Perspective of the Contemporary Global Refugee Crisis in ‘Midnight Traveler’, dir. Hassan Fazili, 2019

An urgent documentary about a family seeking asylum provides an intimate perspective of the way that countless people plea for state powers to recognize their humanity

January 14th, 2020|Country: Afghanistan, Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey|

Book: Gaston Dorren, Babel, 2018

A book of wildly entertaining and illuminating essays on the world’s top 20 languages that celebrates the planet’s differences and similarities in a new way and makes you want to learn a new language

July 11th, 2019|Country: Brazil, Cameroon, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Netherlands, North Korea, Pakistan, Portugal, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Suriname, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tamil Eelam, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, USA, Vietnam|

Film: A Regular Woman, dir. Sherry Hormann, 2019

Seeking to give voice to the German-Kurdish victim of an honor killing

May 5th, 2019|Country: Germany, Kurdistan, Turkey|

Film: Noah Land, dir. Cenk Erturk, 2019

A man's father wants to be buried beneath a tree: but is it just a tree he planted in his youth or a relic of the Biblical flood?

April 28th, 2019|Country: Turkey|

Film: Meteors, dir. Gürcan Keltek, 2017

September 29th, 2018|Country: Kurdistan, Turkey|