Jennifer Hattam

1 week ago | lonelyplanetitalia.it | Jennifer Hattam

Con il suo inestimabile patrimonio culturale, le innumerevoli attrazioni e una scena gastronomica strabiliante e adatta a ogni budget, İstanbul è una città da cui è davvero difficile staccarsi. Vale però la pena guardarsi intorno e fare qualche gita nei dintorni per scoprire le spiagge, le foreste e i graziosi paesini che si trovano appena oltre i confini della metropoli.

2 weeks ago | istanbuletcetera.substack.com | Jennifer Hattam

Founded by a group of documentary filmmakers, Documentarist has been bringing artful, diverse, and impactful real-life stories to cinema screens in Turkey since 2008. Their latest Istanbul Documentary Days festival, which kicks off tomorrow, is no exception, with timely selections of films on Palestine (this yearÔÇÖs focus country) and on historical student uprisings in Mexico, Lebanon, Brazil, and the USA.

3 weeks ago | istanbuletcetera.substack.com | Jennifer Hattam

It’s just a mini newsletter this week to wish a good Kurban Bayramı holiday to all my readers. For those getting out of town, stay safe on the highways and bring plenty of snacks and good music for those inevitable traffic jams. For those staycationing in Istanbul, here’s a quick rundown of which museums, galleries, etc. are going to be open when.

1 month ago | istanbuletcetera.substack.com | Jennifer Hattam

Looking to infuse some color into this grey and rainy Istanbul weekend? Photographer İzzet Keribar’s solo exhibition provides a transporting fix. His early black-and-white works from 1950s Istanbul strike a lot of Ara Güler-like chords but are enriched by being paired with contemporaneous color work from South Korea, with Keribar capturing both countries at a time when they were poised on the brink of rapid urbanization. The rest of the globe-trotting exhibition pops with bold color.

1 month ago | istanbuletcetera.substack.com | Jennifer Hattam

After a May Day dampened by rain as well as the usual lockdowns of central neighborhoods and police arrests of demonstrators, the International Labor Film Festival officially opens this evening at Atlas Cinema in Beyoğlu with a screening of Cycle, an award-winning drama about domestic workers in a wealthy household in Istanbul. With parallel programs in İzmir and Ankara, the festival showcases fiction and documentary films about the lives of working people.