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Still from There Is No Room for a New Coal Power Plant in Afşin-Elbistan: cooling towers and smoke rising from the stacks of a coal power plant

THERE IS NO ROOM FOR A NEW COAL POWER PLANT IN AFŞİN-ELBİSTAN

VIDEO SERIES 2024

The planned expansion of the Afşin-Elbistan A Power Plant threatens public and environmental health. For years, existing units have polluted the air, damaged agriculture, and weakened the Ceyhan River, with emissions exceeding legal limits by 8 times. This video series highlights the urgent need for action and awareness.

Still from Ergene: This Is Not a Creek!: an industrial zone in the Ergene Basin with smoke rising

ERGENE: THIS IS NOT A CREEK!

16.21’ / 2022
 

The industrial area, which moved from Istanbul to Tekirdağ and developed unplanned along the D-100 highway, has been polluting the air, water and soil of the Ergene Basin since the 1970s. Residents of the region and experts talk about the effects of pollution on public health, environment, and agriculture, which is an important source of income of the region

Still from Out of Sight: Informal: a worker in a textile workshop

14.14’ / 2022

The textile industry, which is one of the locomotives of the Turkish economy, has a bleeding wound which has been deepening lately: Illegal employment. The documentary focuses on textile workers working under precarious working conditions.

OUT OF SIGHT: INFORMAL

Still from Canal Istanbul: The Construction of a Destruction: a boat stranded on a drying lakebed

Announced as an alternative waterway to the Bosphorus and a massive new city project, Canal Istanbul opens up the north of Istanbul to development and threatens many ecosystems, including the sea, coastline, dunes, forests, farmland, pastures and wetlands. The project would turn an area home to about 8 million people into an island and is expected to draw 1.2 million new residents to the region. So what will Istanbul leave to future generations?

9.30’ /2021

CANAL ISTANBUL: THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DEMOLITION

Still from Sex Workers During the Pandemic: a portrait of a person against a dark background

Sex workers talk about the relationship between the legal system, criminalization, prejudices and gender and/or profession-based discriminatory practices, all which do not define their work as a profession, with the pandemic.

17.10’ / 2020

SEX WORKERS DURING THE PANDEMIC

Still from The Pit of Basmane: reeds and buildings beside water collected in a pit in Izmir

A pit in the middle of Izmir. But it wasn’t always a pit. The story of the transformation of urban politics in Turkey after 1980 and the privatization of a public land.

25.28’ / 2022

THE PIT OF BASMANE

Still from Sebzeciler: hands touching the soil and red apples on the ground

Sebzeciler village, located in the Yusufeli district of Artvin, has been grappling with the destruction caused by the construction of the Artvin and Yusufeli Dams in the region, along with the roads connecting them, since 2013.

14.16’ / 2020

SEBZECİLER

Still from Construction Site: fans of an amateur football club gathered in the stands

11.42’ /2018

CONSTRUCTION SITE

In Turkey, city stadiums become "Arenas" while local amateur sports clubs' fields vanish for real estate. These clubs, vital for training athletes and community engagement, symbolize local identity but face displacement in urban changes. Yıldıztabya Sports Club in Gaziosmanpaşa shares this plight, mirroring amateur football lovers' struggles.

Still from Master Artin: iron master Artin Aharon

MASTER ARTIN

13.50’ /2020

Artin Aharon, also known as Gabi Usta (Master Gabi), has been practicing his art as an iron master for about 45 years. He is being evacuated from his workshop in Kuledibi, Beyoğlu, where he spent most of these years. The documentary tells the story of Artin Aharon, one of the living witnesses and evidences of Beyoğlu, which has been transformed and culturally deserted.

Still from Baksı: Bayraktar village and the Baksı Museum buildings at sunset

BAKSI

5,13’ /2019

Rising in the village of Bayraktar (formerly known as Baksı), this extraordinary museum offers a place for contemporary art and traditional handicrafts under the same roof. This short documentary tells the story of the museum that sprouted in 2000 as the individual dream of Prof. Dr. Hüsamettin Koçan, a Bayburt-born artist and academician.

Still from Düzce Hope Homes: two workers on a construction site

DÜZCE HOPE HOMES

7,50’ /2018

The Düzce Hope Homes project, designed through participatory design as the result of 16 years of effort by Homeless Earthquake Survivors from Düzce, qualified as one of the 10 finalists of the World Housing Awards before construction was even finished. After years of struggling for land rights, the survivors are now continuing their struggle for access to credit.

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