Director: Wes Hurley
Cast: Jonathan Bennett, Lea Delaria, Lauren Tewes
USA, 2022, HD, color, 97’
Russian-US director Wes Hurley's autobiographical comedy Potato Dreams of America deals with the adventure of a teenage queer living in Soviet Russia who dreams of America and starts a new life in the United States with his mother. The first half of the film, set in Vladivostok, one of the port cities of Russia neighboring Japan, portraits the daily life of Potato who is still a child in the Soviet Union during the Gorbachev era, his attempts to get to know himself, and his social ties through an absurd American sitcom aesthetic. In the second part of the film, we watch the new life of Potato and his mother, who could not see a future for themselves in the Soviet Union, in Seattle, where they moved after hardships, through a melodramatic and more autobiographical narrative. Bringing the dualities of the 20th century into our eyes, Wes Hurley tells his own life story by using dark humor successfully.
Inspired by the exhibition Istanbuls Today, Today's Stories series continues with Hande Ortaç's story "Felis"! This series gathers short stories written by authors encouraged by the photographs in the exhibition.
Mersad Berber was born in Bosanski Petrovac, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, on January 1st. He was the first son of Muhammed Berber and Sadika Berber, a well-known weaver and embroiderer. A year later, the family moved to Banja Luka after the city had suffered damage from the World War II.
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.
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