A Cup of Turkish Coffee
Turkey, France, 2014, Blu-Ray, Color, 8’, Turkish, English Subtitled
Director: Nazlı Eda Noyan, Dağhan Celayir
A woman looks at old family photos with her grandchild, on a table. She looks at her youth, at her childhood forced to marry at an early age, at the way she survived… She looks at photos of the past, at the present reflections of feelings about the past, during a short Turkish coffee break
Doodle
Turkey, 2014, Blu-Ray, Color,17’, Turkish, English Subtitled
Director: Selmin Çalışkan
Serra is looking for a job. She can’t get along with women and the atmosphere in employment interviews and always feels excluded. Her only time passer while waiting in interviews is crosswords. In a desperate moment, she invents a secret world in crosswords. And things get out of hand…
Child’s Play
Turkey, 2014, Blu-Ray, Color,4’, Turkish, English Subtitled
Director: Gizem Bayıksel
As she leaves home, Derin hides a secret of adults’ world in her toy box bearing childhood memories. She would fulfil the requirements of being an adult and then leave home…
Ziazan
Turkey, 2014, Blu-Ray, Color, 15’, Turkish, English Subtitled
Director: Derya Durmaz
Little Ziazan’s uncle earns his life by shuttle trading between Turkey and Armenia. As the border between two countries is closed, each time, he has to make a 36-hour journey through Georgia. The uncle brings small presents for his little niece every time he returns from Turkey. Ziazan likes chocolate cream tubes, most.
One day, Ziazan wants to have an adventure; he would hide in uncle’s luggage, go to Turkey secretly and buy lots of chocolate cream tubes… Would he?
Inspired by the exhibition Istanbuls Today, Today's Stories series continues with Özge Baykan Calafato's story "Cihangir"! This series gathers short stories written by authors encouraged by the photographs in the exhibition.
He had imagined the court room as a big place. It wasn’t. It was about the size of his living room, with an elevation at one end, with a dais on it. The judges and the attorneys sat there. Below it was an old wooden rail, worn out in some places. That was his place. There was another seat for his lawyer. At the back, about 20 or 30 chairs were stowed out for the non-existent crowd.
When regarding the paintings of Istanbul by western painters, Golden Horn has a distinctive place and value. This body of water that separates the Topkapı Palace and the Historical Peninsula, in which monumental edifices are located, from Galata, where westerners and foreign embassies dwell, is as though an interpenetrating boundary.
Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 19:00
Friday 10:00 - 22:00
Sunday 12:00 - 18:00
The museum is closed on Mondays.
On Wednesdays, the students can
visit the museum free of admission.
Full ticket: 300 TL
Discounted: 150 TL
Groups: 200 TL (minimum 10 people)
