Aynı Gecenin Laciverti (Same Night Different Blue) is a crime thriller where comic animation and live action merge. The film starts out with a homeless man looking through the small hole of his shelter. Light is seeping in like a laser beam, but what’s the catch here? Elsewhere are two thieves – Kadir and Yağmur […]
British born, Turkish Cypriot inter-disciplinary daughter of a Tottenham DJ and artist, Tice Cin weaves a quirky, beautifully poetic depiction of a community and world hitherto unrepresented in English literature. Both lyrically and visually, Keeping the House is full of evocative descriptions of ‘Turkish Cypriotisms’. Could this be the only widely publicised, mainstream British novel […]
Plastic Dream delves into the life of Belma (Nihal Yalçın), a woman nearing her 40s – an age dreaded by those living in our while not totally ruthless, but still highly sexist society. Belma goes to a cosmetic dermatologist for dry skin problems, but she leaves with a whole new parasitic consciousness of her aging […]
This short sci-fi comedy was the most entertaining film at the recent Taste of Anatolia – Films From Turkey 2022 film festival, and got a good laugh out of me for its ending! Kika, a drag queen, enters this virtual hedonistic club game called ‘Free Fun’ where everyone, both players and non-player characters (NPCs), are […]
The world is most transfixed at the “death or glory” of a musician’s career, especially at that moment when they’re either making a comeback after a long absence from music or marrying new genres into their music. Gaye Su Akyol is having a go at both with her latest album Anadolu Ejderi (Anatolian Dragon). She […]
A dystopian patriarchal world, where in the absence of women, plants are the substitutes for men to fully control. Each man owns an empty pot called a ‘void’, which they must fill with a plant purchased from the “Board of District Void and Matchmaking Administration” at some point and take care of it’s living conditions. […]
A nostalgic glimpse at Şimuni and Hurmüz Diril’s last reunion with their family in their home village of Meer (Kovankaya), one of the only remaining Chaldean Catholic villages in Türkiye today. Director Etna Özbek films the family as they prepare for the winter season, stocking supplies and wrapping up the fine honeycombs to share out […]
On Sunday evening, 3,500 lucky Londoners had the chance to hear the King of Arabesque, İbrahim Tatlıses, live at Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith. The entertainer performed his classic songs of the past five decades in a show that ran for over two hours. It was the singer’s first concert in the capital in 19 years, […]
PRU is a BBC Three comedy series revolving around four teenagers Halil, Jaeden, Sienna and Belle who find themselves navigating through the trials and tribulations of teen life in a Pupil Referral Unit, or PRU for short, under the guidance of two teachers, who are more like the parental figures these kids need. Think of […]
Among heaps of colourless films on Netflix, Paper Lives (‘Kağıttan Hayatlar’) stands a lustrous tree topper awaiting to be watched. Paper Lives unquestionably swings in as one of the finest Turkish films to be released in the past two years. Director Can Ulkay and writer Ercan Mehmet Erdem unveil a reality through the eyes of a […]
