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Category: Yilmaz, The Little Boy of Istanbul

Turkish Films at TIFF

18 September, 2009 (11:00) | Characters, Favorites, Films, Photographers, Yilmaz, The Little Boy of Istanbul, istanbul | No comments

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, Yilmaz, The Little Boy of Istanbul, human rights, istanbul | 1 comment

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 [...]

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