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Turkey between Home and Abroad

Turkey is an exciting, complex and complicated country full of contradictions

"Whisper your dreams - or rather, don't tell anyone at all!" This is what it once said in the Turkish film "Bal - Honig" (2010) by director Semih Kaplanoğlu. For Turkish filmmaking, "Bal", with its rigorous poetry and silent beauty, was an extraordinary, but certainly not representative event. And yet, ten years ago, the film had a lasting worldwide impact on the impression of great Turkish cinematic art: powerful images, self-confident and very courageous - at least until the attempted coup in Turkey in 2016. Many filmmakers, including master directors such as Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Kaplanoğlu, fell into oblivion, similar to the fate of internationally acclaimed directors Yilmaz Güney and Şerif Gören. Our collection on Turkish film is a less discursive, more open and associative collection of themes and material on various aspects of Turkish reality, both on life in the country itself and on complicated sensitivities in the diaspora.

"Whisper your dreams - or rather, don't tell anyone at all!" This is what it once said in the Turkish film "Bal - Honig" (2010) by director Semih Kaplanoğlu. For Turkish filmmaking, "Bal", with its rigorous poetry and silent beauty, was an extraordinary, but certainly not representative event. And yet, ten years ago, the film had a lasting worldwide impact on the impression of great Turkish cinematic art: powerful images, self-confident and very courageous - at least until the attempted coup in Turkey in 2016. Many filmmakers, including master directors such as Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Kaplanoğlu, fell into oblivion, similar to the fate of internationally acclaimed directors Yilmaz Güney and Şerif Gören. Our collection on Turkish film is a less discursive, more open and associative collection of themes and material on various aspects of Turkish reality, both on life in the country itself and on complicated sensitivities in the diaspora.

"Whisper your dreams - or rather, don't tell anyone at all!" This is what it once said in the Turkish film "Bal - Honig" (2010) by director Semih Kaplanoğlu. For Turkish filmmaking, "Bal", with its rigorous poetry and silent beauty, was an extraordinary, but certainly not representative event. And yet, ten years ago, the film had a lasting worldwide impact on the impression of great Turkish cinematic art: powerful images, self-confident and very courageous - at least until the attempted coup in Turkey in 2016. Many filmmakers, including master directors such as Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Kaplanoğlu, fell into oblivion, similar to the fate of internationally acclaimed directors Yilmaz Güney and Şerif Gören. Our collection on Turkish film is a less discursive, more open and associative collection of themes and material on various aspects of Turkish reality, both on life in the country itself and on complicated sensitivities in the diaspora.