ALMANCI! – Opposing Images June 12–20, 2009

İstanbul Modern Cinema, in collaboration with Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, presents a film program, which marks the 20th anniversary of the twinning of Istanbul and Berlin, and is also launched as part of Ernst Reuter Initiative for German-Turkish dialogue.

Having a powerful visual poetry and new kinds of protagonists who are not presented as victims anymore, these post-migrant artistic productions redefine the subject of migration while at the same time bring a new approach to the image of “Almancı” in Turkey. Focusing on the relationship between cinema and the Turkish-German migration, the program also invites a group of guest directors and actors such as Fatih Akın, Birol Ünel, Züli Aladağ, Buket Alakuş, Sinan Akkuş, Aysun Bademsoy, Mıraz Bezar, Neco Çelik, Hakan Savaş Mican, Ayşe Polat, Tamer Yiğit, Bülent Akıncı, Yüksel Yavuz.

FİLMS:

ME BOSS, YOU SNEAKERS!
Director: Hussi Kutlucan
93’, Colour, 1998, Turkish subtitlesThe story begins in a container ship in Hamburg. The ship is being used as an incoming shelter for immigrants of various nationalities. Dudie and his fiancée Nanie have arrived from Armenia. Considering their situation hopeless, Nanie leaves Dudie to marry a German citizen. However, happy-go-lucky Dudie always seems to be able to find surprising ways out of the many problems in his life.

SANİYE’S PLEASURE
Director: Sülbiye Günar
90’, Colour, 2003, English subtitles
Saniye is not interested in making a career anymore, but she becomes obsessed with having a child. Her boyfriend, Tom does not like the idea first but then accepts her wishes. When the couple has to enter into an artificial insemination, their journey of faith that will take them through the medial world begins.
- After the screening, a talk will be realized with the actress İdil Üner.

SELDA
Director: Tamer Yiğit
80’, Colour, 2006, Turkish subtitles
David’s home is his car. He can’t leave the streets. He even does not remember when he lost his love, Selda. But one day Selda comes up. She sticks in his mind hence forth.

MANYAK DÜKKÂN
Director: Neco Çelik
73’, Colour, 2009, Turkish orginal
The film focuses on different stories about a grocer shop in Kreuzberg. This shop acts an anchoring point for the lives of a series characters ranging from football fanatics and fighting couples to radical feminists. This is a wacky and funny movie about living life, off-the-cuff.

RAGE
Director: Züli Aladağ
90’, Colour, 2006, English subtitles
The film deals with the antagonism between Can, the son of a Turkish immigrant family, and Felix, the son of a liberal middle-class family living in a safe and quiet Berlin neighbourhood. For some time Felix has been in trouble with Can, who is bullying and stealing from him. While Felix simply wants to get on with life, his father Simon is becoming increasingly angry by the boy's attacks and decides to talk to Can's father, asking him to rein in his son.
- After the screening, a talk will be realized with the director Züli Aladağ.

*THE FILMS WILL BE SCREENED WITH TURKISH OR GERMAN SUBTITLES.

*THE SCREENINGS ARE FREE FOR MUSEUM VISITORS.