2014, Blu-Ray, Color, 72’, TürkTurkish, Kurdish, English Subtitled, Turkey
Director: Devrim Akkaya, Cinematographer: Meryem Yavuz, Editing: Ebru Karaca, Erdal Bilici, Sound: Anna Maria Aslanoğlu, Music: Barkın Engin, Metin Bozkurt, Production: Devrim Akkaya, Cem Doruk
Devrim is a yoga trainer living in Istanbul. She attends a therapy workshop about the effects of traumas in the family, like migration, death of a child or a rejected individual, on the following generations. She will find out the reasons for her loneliness and non-belonging, and her resistance to form her own family…
Three figures in Eastern dress are shown in repose against an exotic landscape, smoking pipes and playing mangala. Inventories of the royal collections from 1739 identify the members of this group as the royal eunuch Matthias and two odalisques.
Knowledge of plants and the practice of healing are closely entwined. The toxic or hallucinogenic nature of some roots, and the dangers associated with picking them, conferred a mythical or magical character and power.
When Karl XII of Sweden was defeated by Tsar Peter the Great of Russia in 1709, he fled to the Ottoman Empire and settled in Bender with his entourage for five years.
Tuesday - Friday 11.00 - 18.00
The museum is closed on Mondays,
Saturdays and Sundays.
On Wednesdays, the students can
visit the museum free of admission.
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