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Category: Yilmaz, The Little Boy of Istanbul

Turkish Films at TIFF

18 September, 2009 (11:00) | Characters, Favorites, Films, istanbul, Photographers, Yilmaz, The Little Boy of Istanbul |

For the last three years I have had the pleasure of attending the Toronto International Film Festival and managed to be able to watch some wonderful films that may or may not have made it to the public cinemas. Of course, I am always excited to watch Turkish films, especially tales from Istanbul, but sometimes [...]

Yeşim Ustaoğlu’s Pandora’s Box – Pandoranin Kutusu

10 September, 2008 (12:29) | Characters, Films, human rights, istanbul, Yilmaz, The Little Boy of Istanbul |

In my previous posting I described my disappointment at not being able to obtain tickets to see Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s film “Three Monkeys” so instead, I bought tickets for another Turkish film of which I knew absolutely nothing called Pandora’s Box. Sometimes, we find a little treasure unexpectedly and what a jewel of a find [...]

The Galata Tower Istanbul

14 June, 2008 (11:33) | Characters, istanbul, Photographs, Yilmaz, The Little Boy of Istanbul |

In the village of Galata in old Istanbul on the north side of the Golden Horn stands the Galata Tower, a structure measuring 66.90 meters tall. It dominates the skyline of the city where one can view the Golden Horn, the Sea of Marmara and the Bosphorus. Since early Greek and Roman times, a tower [...]

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