I can’t get over Ayvalık.&nbsp;I set out on a Thursday about a month and a half ago. There was a farmers’ market in the streets of Ayvalık that day. Those streets I passed through multiple times throughout Başka Sinema Ayvalık Film Festival never seemed that crowded again. The days started with a walk on the beach, showings I was late to because I got lost in the streets, meeting up with the crowd at Kraft after seeing a film in the open-air cinema…I couldn’t hold on to the time that went by so fast in this slow city, we couldn’t.&nbsp;Not wanting the morning to come while chatting until it’s very late, yet still gladly opening your eyes early in the morning. The pleasure of the feeling of community, meeting people, knowing people, and getting to know yourself in them is something else.<img src="https://images.aposto.com/2022/6/4/1657195567619.jpeg" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" ratio="0.67" width="550" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">Audience at Başka Sinema Ayvalık Film Festival 2021<div align="center" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><hr size="0" width="100%" align="center" fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;"></div>One step back:&nbsp;It’s 2011 or 2012. Social media is just now entering our lives. My friend who started and managed Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts' (IKSV) social media says they will be abroad for the busiest week of the İstanbul Film Festival, and asks me to cover for them for a week. That is the first time I see behind the scenes of the festival that I had been excitedly following for a couple of years.On my first day “Come,” says Emre, “let me introduce you to Azize.” While we are waiting outside, I remember hearing her speak French on the phone, get off the phone, and swiftly solve the crisis of the person in her room. With that first impression alone, I was convinced that she knew everything about cinema and that she would be able to solve every problem. Over a decade and tens of meetings later, we became less formal.First meeting: We are at Ayvalık. We are sitting on the seaside in the garden of Ayvalık International Music Academy (AIMA). On our right, the silence of the cobblestone street, on our left, the Aegean blue. I can guess the feeling, excitement, and fruits of doing a festival in a much smaller place are much different than in the giant city of Istanbul where she was an important part of the culture and art life.<img src="https://images.aposto.com/2022/6/4/1657195613467.jpeg" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" ratio="0.67" width="550" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">Azize and Emre, in Ayvalık<div align="center" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><hr size="0" width="100%" align="center" fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;"></div>When I start listening to Azize and her story with Ayvalık and Başka Sinema Ayvalık Film Festival, I ask: “Isn’t it hard to get critics and audiences here?” She takes a small pause. I see the previous four years flash and twinkle before her eyes – then the smile that conveys happiness and pride at the same time. I get the clearest, and perhaps the most satisfying answer of our entire chat. In a soft tone of voice, on an inhale, she says: “It’s not.”I have two more days at the festival. I love, connect to, and feel its joy even more intensely.Thank you: To Azize and the festival. To Cemre and Kaan, Uğurhan, Zehra and Tuba, everyone I got to know and love in those small, magical moments in Ayvalık, and those who I will get to know and love in Ayvalık in the future.Emre

Duende

Ayvalık Agrees With Us

<hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;"><img src="https://images.aposto.com/2022/6/5/1657895058952.jpeg" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" width="550" ratio="1.56" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">O Brother, Where Art Thou?, 2000<hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;">7- Başka Sinema Film Screenings:&nbsp;O Brother, Where Art Thou?<ul fr-original-style="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; list-style-position: inside; box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">What is it? A film. We will watch this Oscar-nominated 2000 production in the amphitheater to honor these summer days. There are mermaids, bank robbers, a cyclops, an angry KKK group, a blind psychic, and more.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Where is it? Zorlu PSM Vestel Amfi</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">When? July 20</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Why should you go? If you like films directed by the Coen brothers, or if you were thinking “I wish there was an occasion to go see one,” then why not? But if you say “No, thank you,” you can take a look at the other films you can catch at Başka Cinema screenings.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Duly noted:&nbsp;You have to <a fr-original-style="" href="https://bilet.zorlupsm.com/default?ec=BSFGOBWA200722" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">register</a> before you go.&nbsp;</li></ul>

Aposto Istanbul

<img src="https://images.aposto.com/2022/2/1/1648475516565.jpeg" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" width="550" ratio="1.78" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"><a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.netflix.com/81346907" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; -webkit-user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Uysallar</a> dizisi dün tüm dünyada aynı anda yayınlandı. Geçen hafta özel gösterimle izleme şansı bulduğumuz dizi hakkında bir yazı kaleme aldık. Umarız siz bizden daha çok seversiniz. Netflix Türkiye’nin eleştirel anlamda bugüne dek en büyük başarı kazanmış ve üzerine en çok konuşulmuş işi kuşkusuz Berkun Oya’nın Bir Başkadır’ı. Dizinin saymakla bitirilemeyen meziyetlerinden Uysallar&nbsp;ekibince de ulaşılmaya çalışılan en belirginiyse, günümüz Türkiye’sinden bir portre sunma çabası. Uysallar, Bir Başkadır gibi, bir karakteri tek başına öne çıkarmayan ya da dramatik yapısını tek karakter üzerine kurmayan bir dizi. İsmindeki çoğul ekinden de anlaşılacağı üzere bir grup insanı anlatıyor, soyadı Uysal olan bir aileyi ancak izledikçe anlıyoruz ki derdi aslında biraz da günümüz Türkiye’sini anlatmak. Bir Başkadır gibi. Bir Başkadır, karakterlerini tesadüflerle birbirine bağlıyordu, Uysallar soyadıyla bağlıyor. Ne var ki; Bir Başkadır bireylerden yola çıkarak topluma ulaşabiliyordu, Uysallar&nbsp;“anakaradan” o kadar havalanamıyor. Yazının tamamını okumak için <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.filmarasidergisi.com/uysallar/" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; -webkit-user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">buraya tıklayabilirsiniz.</a>

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