While the film focuses on a mother and son’s relationship, it investigates the long-term effects of the immigration of the filmmaker’s family from Bulgaria to Turkey and the life of a widow in a patriarchal culture.
What happens when your child comes out to you? In this feature documentary, parents of lesbian, gay,...
INTENT TO DESTROY embeds with a historic feature production as a springboard to explore the violent ...
Though both the historical and modern-day persecution of Armenians and other Christians is relativel...
On the 50th anniversary of the Cyprus Peace Operation, TRT World revisits the island's turbulent his...
A thorough look at the 90's Turkish rock scene, one legendary stage band and its two members: Kerim ...
Turkey in the 1960s and 1970s was one of the biggest producers of film in the world. In order to kee...
A documentary of Turkish political history about multi-party period, Democrat Party government and t...
Explores the Ottoman Empire killings of more than one million Armenians during World War I. The film...
Bakur (North) is a documentary that invites its audience to reflect on a war that has been continuin...
Ecumenopolis: City Without Limits" tells the story of Istanbul and other Mega-Cities on a neo-libera...
An indictment of the protagonists in the Cypriot civil war.
Byzance uses a text by Stefan Zweig to describe the Ottoman conquest of the city in 1453. Before he ...
All of Pialat's Turkish films are uniquely interested in the country — especially Istanbul — as it w...
Maître Galip is the most poetic and powerful of Pialat's Turkish Chronicles, using the poems of Nazi...
La Corne d'or is mostly concerned with religious ritual, examining the mosque (and former cathedral)...
Pehlivan focuses on a three-day wrestling competition, an ancient tradition that dates back over a t...
Short doc by Maurice Pialat. The first film in the series set at Turkey, Bosphore, is also the only ...
Docudrama examining the life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey from the r...
As the forces of ISIS and Assad tear through villages and society in Syria and Northern Iraq, a grou...
At the heart of the Syrian civil war, a group of activists created an underground library in the bes...