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Boston Turkish Film Festival

A collection of 6 posts

Review: Neandria (2023) dir. Reha Erdem

Review: Neandria (2023) dir. Reha Erdem

Turkish writer-director Reha Erdem isn’t a name many North American cineastes will recognize. Even those familiar with Turkish cinema would be forgiven for not having Erdem on their new release radar. That doesn’t stop Erdem with each new film from declaring his own relevance to the larger project

Boston Turkish Film Festival Review: Nurcan Eren Makes Suna Work

Boston Turkish Film Festival Review: Nurcan Eren Makes Suna Work

The Boston Turkish Film Festival ran from Friday, 3/24 through Sunday, 3/26 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and c0ntinues through 4/29 virtually. Click here for the schedule and ticket info, and watch the site for Joshua Polanski’s continuing coverage! I’ve always found it

Boston Turkish Film Festival: Burning Days and Sinkholes

Boston Turkish Film Festival: Burning Days and Sinkholes

The particular is universal, and the universal is particular.

Boston Turkish Film Festival: Religion and Gender in Guilt

Boston Turkish Film Festival: Religion and Gender in Guilt

The Boston Turkish Film Festival runs from Friday, 3/24 through Sunday, 3/26 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and through 4/29 virtually. Click here for the schedule and ticket info, and watch the site for Joshua Polanski’s continuing coverage! A former journalist turned filmmaker, Ümran

Boston Turkish Film Festival: The Obscure Dialogue of Kerr

Boston Turkish Film Festival: The Obscure Dialogue of Kerr

The most confounding characteristic of this little town, though, is the way everyone speaks as if the rules of conversational reciprocation do not apply to them.

Boston Turkish Film Festival Review: Anatolian Leopard

Boston Turkish Film Festival Review: Anatolian Leopard

With a premise that promises sadness, Anatolian Leopard delivers. A zoo in Ankara, Turkey on the verge of being privatized and transformed into an amusement park named “Aladdin’s Magic Lamp” by Saudi Arabian business magnates loses its endangered Anatolian leopard to a mundane illness. Aging zoo director Fikret (Uğur