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Enis Rıza

Enis Rıza, Turkish documentary filmmaker, educator, writer. He studied at Galatasaray High School. In 1969, he started working on documentary and short films with the ‘Genç Sinema’ group. He gave lectures on photography, cinema and documentary cinema at various schools and institutions. In 1996, he was among the founders of the Association of Documentary Filmmakers. He organises the ‘Documentary…

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40.000 Steps in the Grand Bazaar

40.000 Steps in the Grand Bazaar · 1980

40.000 Steps in the Grand Bazaar

MovieDocumentary

This documentary presents the past and present of Istanbul’s famed Grand Bazaar, whose history spans nearly five centuries. The film offers an intimate portrait of the bazaar through the perspective of a sherbet seller who has walked its streets for forty years, capturing the rhythms of daily life and the continuity of tradition within one of the city’s most enduring cultural spaces.

Seeing Africa While Flying to the Moon

Seeing Africa While Flying to the Moon · 1991

Seeing Africa While Flying to the Moon

The 1st National Children's Congress, which was held for the first time in Istanbul in 1991, is a platform where the problems in the world are determined and discussed by children. The documentary asks, "What kind of world do we want to live in?" and looks at the answers from children's perspectives.

Recycling Life - I Found Dostoyevsky in the Garbage

Recycling Life - I Found Dostoyevsky in the Garbage · 2011

Recycling Life - I Found Dostoyevsky in the Garbage

MovieDocumentary

This story is about a beggar, a thief, and a child working on the street, a paper garbage collector, a leftist, a Muslim, a father, and a second-hand book dealer… Oktay Çetinkaya, full of life, tells us the stories of back streets, ghosts with whom he shared his own history, living as one of them.

Remembering 16 March

Remembering 16 March · 2014

Remembering 16 March

MovieDocumentaryHistory

Survivors tell the inside story of the massacre of the leftist students at Istanbul University on 16 March 1978 and the political atmosphere before the coup of 12 September 1980.

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40.000 Steps in the Grand Bazaar

40.000 Steps in the Grand Bazaar · 1980

40.000 Steps in the Grand Bazaar

MovieDocumentary

This documentary presents the past and present of Istanbul’s famed Grand Bazaar, whose history spans nearly five centuries. The film offers an intimate portrait of the bazaar through the perspective of a sherbet seller who has walked its streets for forty years, capturing the rhythms of daily life and the continuity of tradition within one of the city’s most enduring cultural spaces.

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Seeing Africa While Flying to the Moon

Seeing Africa While Flying to the Moon · 1991

Seeing Africa While Flying to the Moon

The 1st National Children's Congress, which was held for the first time in Istanbul in 1991, is a platform where the problems in the world are determined and discussed by children. The documentary asks, "What kind of world do we want to live in?" and looks at the answers from children's perspectives.

Director

Recycling Life - I Found Dostoyevsky in the Garbage

Recycling Life - I Found Dostoyevsky in the Garbage · 2011

Recycling Life - I Found Dostoyevsky in the Garbage

MovieDocumentary

This story is about a beggar, a thief, and a child working on the street, a paper garbage collector, a leftist, a Muslim, a father, and a second-hand book dealer… Oktay Çetinkaya, full of life, tells us the stories of back streets, ghosts with whom he shared his own history, living as one of them.

Director

Remembering 16 March

Remembering 16 March · 2014

Remembering 16 March

MovieDocumentaryHistory

Survivors tell the inside story of the massacre of the leftist students at Istanbul University on 16 March 1978 and the political atmosphere before the coup of 12 September 1980.

Director