Elif Dizdaroğlu

5.0 MovieIt may look like a Labubu unboxing, but it is actually an unpacking of socioeconomic trends...

Labubu Unboxing Video

2025

MovieEver-innovative and pioneering contemporary composer İlhan Usmanbaş celebrated his 100th birthday! Usmanbaş shared his life story with #BirGünTV.

Composer İlhan Usmanbaş Turns 100!

MovieWe take a closer look at Istanbul’s cats, their history, and their place in civilization during a short tour of the Cihangir neighborhood with Gündüz Vassaf, the...

Catstanbul

2025

MovieA live documentary experience built around archival footage of the 90s psychedelic band ZeN and their 1996 concert at Cihangir Park. Directed by Elif Dizdaroğlu, the...

ZeNistaN A Live Documentary Experience

2026

MovieAn archival biography in three chapters, exploring the revolutionary potential of being a cinephile... A war pilot, a radical revolutionary, and a cinephile... This...

Blue, Revolution and VHS Tapes

2025

MovieA collection of 8mm film reels from İlhan Mimaroğlu’s archive—once tucked away in whisky boxes—has found new life through art. Curated by director Serdar Kökçeoğlu...

Mimaroğlu Remix Project

2025

MovieTürkiye’s modernization adventure is an intermittent one that carries the pains of transition from empire to republic and of geographical liminality in every aspect...

Usmanbaş: Modernist

MovieQueen Elizabeth I commissions a magnificent mechanical organ for Sultan Mehmed III, crafted by the famed Thomas Dallam. The organ, adorned with singing birds and...

Sultan's Organ: A Gift

2025

MovieIn an age where silence is complicity, Muslimgauze: Electronic Intifada resurrects the haunting pulse of Bryn Jones—the Manchester-born musician who devoted his...

Muslimgauze: Electronic Intifada

2025

MovieThe hundreds of letters left behind after Latif Demirci's passing describe not only a illustrator's fanbase, but the troubles and dreams of a certain era in Turkey,...

dear caricaturist,

2026

MovieTo speak of jazz in Turkey is to speak of Kerem Görsev. In this intimate short documentary, director Levent Türkan sits down with the maestro to unravel İstanbul’s...

Kerem Görsev and All That Jazz

2026

MovieBrought to life from the outtakes of director Deniz Yüksel’s long-running Lale Müldür documentary, "Lale Müldür and All the Nightclubs of Istanbul" brings to light a...

Lale Müldür and All the Nightclubs of Istanbul

2026

MovieIn the late 1960s, Istanbul was the eastern gateway of the hippie trail to Kathmandu. The cheap hotels of Sultanahmet and the tables of the Pudding Shop were crowded...

We Knew Her Well: Hippie Perihan