Delikado

  • December 12, 2023 / 19:00

Director: Karl Malakunas
United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Australia, Hong Kong, 2022, 94', DCP, color
English, Filipino with Turkish, English subtitles 

An idyllic tropical island, one of the Philippines’ hottest new tourist destinations, is ground zero for a struggle between development and the environment. Against the backdrop of the climate crisis, three environmental crusaders try to stop politicians and businessmen from destroying the country’s “last ecological frontier”. 

Karl Malakunas, Director; Robert Bernardo, UNDP Leader of Governance and Peacebuilding; and Begüm Özkaynak, Economics and Sustainability expert and Professor at Boğaziçi University, will engage in a discussion after the screening.

Free admissions. Drop in, no reservations.

 

Through the Night

Through the Night

Landfall

Landfall

Delikado

Delikado

Turquerie

Turquerie

Having penetrated the Balkans in the fourteenth century, conquered Constantinople in the fifteenth, and reached the gates of Vienna in the sixteenth, the Ottoman Empire long struck fear into European hearts. 

The Ottoman Way of Serving Coffee

The Ottoman Way of Serving Coffee

Coffee was served with much splendor at the harems of the Ottoman palace and mansions. First, sweets (usually jam) was served on silverware, followed by coffee serving. The coffee jug would be placed in a sitil (brazier), which had three chains on its sides for carrying, had cinders in the middle, and was made of tombac, silver or brass. The sitil had a satin or silk cover embroidered with silver thread, tinsel, sequin or even pearls and diamonds.

Il Cavallo di Leonardo

Il Cavallo di Leonardo

In 1493, exactly 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci was finishing the preparations for casting the equestrian monument (4 times life size), which Ludovico il Moro, Duke of Milan commissioned in memory of his father some 12 years earlier.