Co-sponsored by Turkish American Cultural Alliance (TACA)

4 Turkish movies are a part of Doc Films series called “Urban Encounters” thanks to the efforts of one of our TACA members, Esra Tasdelen.

"Urban Encounters" Doc Films by University of Chicago

The City in Middle Eastern Cinema Urban spaces are often the central locations or intersections for the production of social and cultural identities. And it is within the city that these identities are exchanged and manipulated, fostering historical shifts that are inscribed both in the city itself and beyond. This film series intends to spark reflection upon the Middle Eastern city as a location for exchange, full of gray areas between high and low culture, official and popular positions. The Middle Eastern city, in other words, becomes a stage upon which identity and all of its variations is performed and considered.

The movie names and dates are as follows:

• Thursday, April 8 at 7:00 • 101m
  
  • Climates - Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2006
• Thursday, April 15 at 7:00 • 122m
  
  • The Edge of Heaven - Fatih Akin, 2007
• Thursday, May 13 at 7:00 • 90m
  
  • Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul - Fatih Akin
• Thursday, May 20 at 7:00 • 109m
  
  • Three Monkeys - Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2008

Tickets: ($5) go on sale half an hour before the screening.
Location: Max Palevsky Cinema in Ida Noyes Hall at The University of Chicago (1212 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637)

For details visit http://docfilms.uchicago.edu/dev/calendar/2010/spring/thursday1.shtml