Film Sans Is

In 2009, Cihangir Beautification Association from Istanbul and Kolonie Wedding from Berlin organised an artist exchange project. Titled as Amongst Neighbours 01 and realized under the main sponsorship of Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency, the project brought together artists from Cihangir and Mitte neighbourhoods of two cities who hosted each other for three weeks in two gatherings. While working on concepts of neighbourliness and foreignness, they questioned the bridges they built with each other and their vague relations with their own neighbours.

A short poetic evocation by Sara Gómez of Isla de Pinos, the island where Fidel Castro was imprisoned by Batista, where the revolution builds a new society. A juxtaposition of the Presidio Modelo prison with citrus production.

Cybernetic memories of jugs, tuned cars and pills kept in a drawer emerge with the anthem of the best time in the history of Spain in terms of having a good time.

Every encounter with an image, every interaction searches for its own form. She is the other gaze is a collaboration with five female visual artists of an older generation who have been part of the Viennese art scene since the 1970s and engaged in the women's movement. In dialogue with the filmmaker Renate Bertlmann, Linda Christanell, Lore Heuermann, Karin Mack and Margot Pilz share their early works and artistic practices. They remember how their self-determination evolved between artistic ambitions, economic constraints, adaptation and resistance to the prevailing patriarchal social structures. In their role as feminist pioneers, the protagonists are a great influence on the contemporary art scene and the self-understanding of younger artists today. With their voices and narratives, they become collaborators passing on feminist thinking and artistic experiences.

Istanbul - the city between East and West - is considered among insiders to be the gay Mecca of Europe. Although European lifestyles have been adopted easily and often in Istanbul, today the city and her residents face a growing number of conservative, traditional forces. Within the tension between the old and the new, between the traditional and the revolutionary, and between stagnancy and change, we find our protagonists: gays and transsexuals from every walk of life. The Other Side of Istanbul is a film that follows these young men as they come to terms with their "otherness," and traces their struggles with the authorities, with the military, with society, with their families and, of course, with themselves. Theirs is a fight for human rights, for freedom, for a self-determined life, and with each success and failure they experience, we are offered a glimpse at The Other Side of Istanbul.

A look into the life of Holger Meins, the German cinematography student who became a revolutionary and a prominent voice in the Vietnam War protest movement. This film is comprised of interviews with his associates. 16mm, color & b/w

What happens to history’s forgotten people? How did a young Polish woman manage to spend years living in a Tanzanian village in the 1940s? Through this ambitious, highly personal film, Jonathan Durand exposes the tragic fate of nearly 1,000,000 Poles who were deported to Siberian labour camps during the Second World War, and the thousands of them who wound up in Africa after periods of exile in Iran and India. Featuring the unforgettable recollections of his own grandmother, meticulous historical research and a gripping personal quest, the film exposes a deliberately erased chapter of history, and questions the nature of identities rooted in exile.

Unconfident Sanjar receives another refusal in the competition of screenwriters. On the way home, he meets a charming girl Aisulu and they have mutual feelings. In an attempt to impress the girl, Sanjar comes up with a story about shooting his film in America. Lovers talk on the phone all the time. Romantic girl Aisulu decides to surprise the young man and goes to the USA. Sanjar is forced to fly on his first flight to America to beg forgiveness from his beloved.

In a culture immersed in technology, Instagram is reviving adventure, face to face community and real relationships. Through sharing the stories of friends old and new, "Instagram Is" sets out to discover the answer to the question "How can something so digital get people out from behind their devices and into the analog world?"

Documenting the tenth of twelve battles near the Isonzo River bordering Italy and Austria-Hungary. World War One.

MAWE! is an exclamation in Rutooro used to express surprise, and the story of two Ugandan women who have a life-changing conversation.

The terrorists in the so-called Islamic State (IS) look down on women. They enslave, rape and sell women for next to nothing. But the dreaded militants fear fighting female soldiers. In this documentary we follow the battle of two extraordinary women who, with no fear for themselves, fight the brutal extremists in IS.

A non-film, with a non-story. moments to keep, moments to hold, moments.

Şebnem Ferah's İstanbul Concert on March 10th 2007. She sings songs from her previous 5 studio albums with band and Istanbul Symphonic Project.

A young man's obsession with capturing the beauty of his wooden figure gets in the way of his personal life, his passion for his art driving a wedge between himself and his best friend.

The film tells about the life of 25-year-old Intigam, who lives in a remote village in the south of Azerbaijan. His grandmother filmed Intigam's dance with sheep and put it on YouTube. With more than 10 million views on YouTube, Intigam is life-changing. An invitation comes to him from Baku and he has to come to Baku. They want to use the purity of the main character and embezzle the 2 million manat allocated to the author of the most viewed video of the year. Before long, the premeditated ruse is revealed and the fraudsters can't get their way. Getting used to village life, Intigam gets into funny situations in the city. In the end, there is a scandal at the award ceremony, and the ground is laid for a video that can collect the next number of views for YouTube.

My Name is Pengungsi (Refugee) follows the lives and families of two children, both named “refugee”, who were born and currently being raised in parts of West Papua distant from their families’ places of origin.

Wenya's parents separated when she was two, and after that she lived with her father and stepmother. Her stepmother couldn't stand her and was always arguing with her father. He had little choice-he had to send Wenya to her mother's house, but her mother was fully focused on running her business and didn't have any time to take care of Wenya, so she was often shuttled off to her relatives' and friends' homes to be fostered. After so many years of a life of foster care, young Wenya felt lonely and helpless, and longed for the warmth of a home.

Three weeks with the Kurdish fighters of Sinjar, on the front line against the jihadists of the Islamic State