Turkey

Berlinale winner “Yellow Letters” has chilling message: under authoritarian rule, it could be you

(Özgü Namal and Tansu Biçer in Berlinale Golden Bear winner "Gelbe Briefe" (Yellow Letters)) By Michael Roddy In awarding the Berlinale's top Golden Bear prize on Saturday to the Turkish-German film “Gelbe Briefe” (Yellow Letters), German director Wim Wenders said he was certain its politically potent message that even people who are privileged and well…Read more Berlinale winner “Yellow Letters” has chilling message: under authoritarian rule, it could be you

Berlinale ends as it began, in a political furore

(Director İlker Çatak accepting Berlinale's Golden Bear award for his film "Gelbe Briefe") By Michael Roddy The raucous political debate over the Israeli-Gaza conflict and the rise of authoritarianism that has roiled the Berlinale Film Festival since its opening took over the stage for the closing ceremony on Saturday night where the winning films were…Read more Berlinale ends as it began, in a political furore

Kurdish feud is warning to the world in Berlinale film Kurtuluş

(Caner Cindoruk as vision-possessed Mesut in Kurtuluş) By Michael Roddy Clan rivalries spiral fatally out of control in a farming and shepherding village in southeastern Turkey that could be any place where tensions between feuding groups end in violence in the Turkish-Kurdish film “Kurtuluş” (Salvation), which had its premiere at the Berlinale on Sunday. In…Read more Kurdish feud is warning to the world in Berlinale film Kurtuluş