Queer Shorts From Turkey

  • October 16, 2022 / 17:00

9/8fight41: a 9/8 fight for all of us

Director: Gizem Aksu
Cast: Sema Semih, Gizem Nalbant, Banu Açıkdeniz
Turkey, 2022, HD, color, 29’ 

This documentary short dance film is based on Gizem Aksu's spectral friendship with Sinti-Roma boxing legend of Germany, Johann Rukeli Trollmann (1907-1944) and the inter-generational and inter-geographical journey of this friendship. Rukeli Trollmann was exposed to many forms of discrimination by the Nazi regime because of "boxing by dancing like Gypsy" and was murdered in the Wittenberge Concentration Camp. Inspired by the fight of Rukeli Trollmann, the film traces the artist's experience of immigration to Berlin and the fight for justice in Istanbul.

There Is Nothing Called Home

Director: Nur Özkaya
Cast: Aleyna Pişiren, Perihan Özkaya
Turkey, 2022, HD, color, 4’

The story of a person who is stuck with the concept of home and attaches a lot of meaning to small things, choosing herself as a weapon at a Russian roulette table and the battle of her inner roulette.

No One Would Go

Director: Tuğba Baykal
Turkey, 2022, HD, color, 39’ 

No One Would Go is a documentary about psychiatric and psychological "treatments" including physical interventions aimed at "curing" LGBTI+s in Turkey, and the experiences of LGBTI+s who have been exposed to these methods.

Circus of Life

Circus of Life

Popo Fan Films Selection

Popo Fan Films Selection

Besties

Besties

Love, Deutschmarks and Death

Love, Deutschmarks and Death

Blooming on the Asphalt

Blooming on the Asphalt

Potato Dreams of America

Potato Dreams of America

Criminal Queers

Criminal Queers

Walking After Midnight

Walking After Midnight

How the Room Felt

How the Room Felt

 Our Story

Our Story

Queer Shorts From Turkey

Queer Shorts From Turkey

Serpent Head

Serpent Head

The Greek god Apollo and his son Asklepios presided over the realm of medicine and healing. Apollo was also the god of light and sun, whose solar symbolism and association with medicine would become linked to Christ the Physician, and the resurrected.

Postcard Nudes

Postcard Nudes

The various states of viewing nudity entered the Ottoman world on postcards before paintings. These postcards appeared in the 1890s, and became widespread in the 1910s, following the proclamation of the Second Constitutional Monarchy, traveling from hand to hand, city to city. 

Baby King

Baby King

1638, the year Louis XIV was born –his second name, Dieudonné, alluding to his God-given status– saw the diffusion of a cult of maternity encouraged by the very devout Anne of Austria, in thanks for the miracle by which she had given birth to an heir to the French throne. Simon François de Tours (1606-1671) painted the Queen in the guise of the Virgin Mary, and the young Louis XIV as the infant Jesus, in the allegorical portrait now in the Bishop’s Palace at Sens.