Director: Lourdes Portillo
Participants: Ofelia Almeida, Oscar Ruiz Almeida, Jesus de la Torre, Luz Ruiz De La Torre
Mexico, USA, 1994, 87', DCP, color
Spanish, English with Turkish subtitles
The documentary by Lourdes Portillo begins when Portillo receives the news of her uncle Oscar's death, which is first ruled a heart attack and then suicide. Portillo travels to her hometown of Chihuahua, Mexico, to uncover the truth about her uncle's death. Through interviews with Oscar's friends and family, he unveils previously unknown details about his uncle and offers a personal and complex picture of his uncle's life and death.
Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz discovered the Orient in 1877, touring Syria, Egypt, Turkey, and the Crimea with Władysław Branicki. This experience made a profound impression on him, and he was to continuously revisit Eastern themes in his works for the rest of his life.
Pera Museum’s Cold Front from the Balkans exhibition curated by Ali Akay and Alenka Gregorič brings together contemporary artists from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia.
About a year ago, Ela was dead for seven minutes. Death had come to her as she was watching her younger brother play gleefully in the sandpit at the park. A sudden flash that washed her world with a burning white light, a merciless roar resembling that of a monster…
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