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Do Not Forget Me Istanbul

This anthology film is made up of six 15min shorts dedicated to the city that used to dominate the East and the West for centuries.

This anthology film is made up of six 15min shorts dedicated to the city that used to dominate the East and the West for centuries. Filmmakers from the Balkans and the Middle East - whose families stem from Istanbul in one way or another - wrote and directed «Do Not Forget Me Istanbul» as a tribute to a metropolis that has remained a crossroads between the Western World and the Orient throughout the centuries. The project is designed to showcase the cultural influence of Istanbul on the collective consciousness of countless nations, who still share memories born on the same soil. K.Th.


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Σκηνοθεσία / Directors: Hany Abu-Assad, Stefan Arsenijevic, Aida Begic, Josefina Markarian, Eric Nazarian, Stergios Niziris, Omar Shargawi

Σενάριο / Screenwriters: Hany Abu-Assad, Stefan Arsenijevic, Aida Begic, Gul Dirican, Nazli Elif Durlu, Josefina Markarian, Eric Nazarian, Stergios Niziris, Omar Shargawi

Φωτογραφία / DoP: Emre Erkmen, Baris Ozbicer, Eken Ozgur, Emre Tanyildiz, Burak Turan, Erol Zubcevic

Μοντάζ / Editor: Mary Stephen

Ηθοποιοί / Principal Cast: Ali Suliman, Derya Durmaz, Yorgos Symeonidis, Salima Hamed, Svetozar Cvetkovic, Jacky Nercessian

Τουρκία, Ελλάδα / Turkey, Greece

2011

Εγχρωμο / Color

119'

Σέρβικα, Βοσνιακά, Τούρκικα, Ελληνικά, Εβραϊκά / Serbian, Bosnian, Turkish, Greek, Hebrew

* Screened on September 25th


    Publication date: 2012-09-13 12:10:00

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