Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times

  • November 19, 2020 / 12:00

Director: Richard Curtis
United Kingdom, 2020, 34', HDD, color
English with Turkish subtitles

Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times is a very special, first of its kind programme, created by the United Nations on its 75th Anniversary and to mark five years since the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals. In the midst of a pandemic radically transforming our world, Nations United will tell the story of the world as it is, as it was, and as it could be and set out what must be done for people and planet.

How We Grow

How We Grow

Food for Change

Food for Change

Shade Grown Coffee

Shade Grown Coffee

Climate Limbo

Climate Limbo

Jozi Gold

Jozi Gold

Seeds of Profit

Seeds of Profit

Mega Fires

Mega Fires

Hacking for the Commons

Hacking for the Commons

Lords of Water

Lords of Water

Rewilding

Rewilding

The New Breed: The Rise of the Social Entrepreneur

The New Breed: The Rise of the Social Entrepreneur

Mirror

Mirror

A Fistful of Rubbish

A Fistful of Rubbish

Biomimicry

Biomimicry

The Promise of Biomimicry

The Promise of Biomimicry

Stolen Fish

Stolen Fish

Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times

Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times

A Regenerative Secret

A Regenerative Secret

From Weedy Forests to Grassy Woodlands

From Weedy Forests to Grassy Woodlands

The Compost Story

The Compost Story

How We Live: A Journey Towards a Just Transition

How We Live: A Journey Towards a Just Transition

Midnight Horror Stories: The Landlord <br> Hakan Bıçakcı

Midnight Horror Stories: The Landlord
Hakan Bıçakcı

Three people sleeping side by side. On the uncomfortable seats of the stuffy airplane in the air. Three friends. I’m the friend in the window seat. The other two are a couple, Emre and Melisa. I’m alone, they are together. And another difference. I’ve only closed my eyes. They are asleep.

Portrait of a Bullfighter (1797)

Portrait of a Bullfighter (1797)

The man is depicted in three-quarters view, turning straight to the viewers with a penetrating glance. The background is grey, while the clothes, the hair, and cap are black. 

The First Nudes

The First Nudes

Men were the first nudes in Turkish painting. The majority of these paintings were academic studies executed in oil paint; they were part of the education of artists that had finally attained the opportunity to work from the live model. The gender of the models constituted an obstacle in the way of characterizing these paintings as ‘nudes’.