|
Conscience Films
Conscience Films (also known as Vicdan Filmleri in Turkish, and Խղճմտանքի Ֆիլմեր in Armenian) is a short film competition organized by the Hrant Dink Foundation."Vicdan Filmleri"http://www.vicdanfilmleri.org/ The competition was founded in memory of Hrant Dink. According to Dença Kartun, the project coordinator at the Hrant Dink Foundation for the Films about Conscience project, words by the Assassination of Hrant Dink, assassinated Armenian-Turkish journalist inspired the project. "The voice of conscience has been sentenced to silence. Now, that conscience is searching for a way out," said Dink, who was killed on Jan. 19, 2007."Hrant Dink Foundation holds Films about Conscience competition"http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/76636/"Dink Foundation Organizes Film Project “Calling Conscience”"http://bianet.org/english/minorities/116441-dink-foundation-organizes-film-project-calling-conscience The participants are asked to make a short movie of at most five minutes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Film
A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all credits". In the United States, short films were generally termed short subjects from the 1920s into the 1970s when confined to two 35 mm reels or less, and featurettes for a film of three or four reels. "Short" was an abbreviation for either term. The increasingly rare industry term "short subject" carries more of an assumption that the film is shown as part of a presentation along with a feature film. Short films are often screened at local, national, or international film festivals and made by independent filmmakers with either a low budget or no budget at all. They are usually funded by film grants, nonprofit organizations, sponsor, or personal funds. Short films are generally used for industry experience and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ömer Madra
Omar/Umar ( ar, عمر) is a masculine given name that has different origins in three languages across the world (Arabic, Hebrew and Germanic) even though it is best known as an Arabic name and the name Omar was mentioned in the Old Testament. Omar is represented in Islamic traditions. The name means "flourishing, long lived". After the emergence and military success of Islam, which was partly due to the second caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab (also spelled Omar, ), Umar or Omar became a common name in Muslim Arab and Muslim populations in general. The name is also used in Spanish-speaking countries. There was a biblical figure by the name of Omar. In the Middle Ages, there was a large population of Jews and Muslims in Spain, therefore the name could have spread because of this. The name Omar (spelled as Ómar) is also popular as a man's name in Iceland, and to a much lesser extent in Nordic countries. The name can also be a variant of Ottomar or Othmar, a Germanic name c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Istanbul Film Festival
The Istanbul Film Festival ( tr, İstanbul Film Festivali) is the first and oldest international film festival in Turkey, organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts. It is held every year in April in movie theaters in Istanbul, Turkey. As mentioned in its regulations, the festival aims to encourage the development of cinema in Turkey and to promote films of quality in the Turkish cinema market.Istanbul Film Festival regulations , retrieved December 15, 2007 The 40th edition of the festival was held from April 1 to June 29, 2021 in hybrid format. History The Istanbul International Film Festival was first organized in 1982, within the frame of the International Istanbul Festival as a "Film Week" consisting of six films.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yıldırım Türker
Yıldırım is a Turkish word meaning " lightning" and may refer to: People Given name *Ali Yıldırım Koç (born 1967), Turkish businessman and member of the Koç family * Yıldırım Akbulut (1935–2021), Turkish politician *Yıldırım Aktuna (1930–2007), Turkish psychiatrist and politician *Yıldırım Demirören (born 1964), Turkish businessman and president of Turkish Football Federation Surname * Adnan Yıldırım (1957–1994), Turkish person involved in the Susurluk scandal * Ahmet Yıldırım (born 1974), Turkish footballer *Avni Yıldırım (born 1991), Turkish boxer * Aygün Yıldırım (born 1995), German footballer *Aziz Yıldırım (born 1952), Turkish businessman and former chairman of Fenerbahçe S.K. *Binali Yıldırım (born 1955), Turkish politician and prime minister from May 2016 *Bülent Yıldırım (referee) (born 1972), Turkish football referee *Cemal Yıldırım (born 1925), Turkish philosopher of science * Cem Yıldırım (born 1961), Turkish mathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaughan Pilikian
Vaughan () (2021 population 323,103) is a city in Ontario, Canada. It is located in the Regional Municipality of York, just north of Toronto. Vaughan was the fastest-growing municipality in Canada between 1996 and 2006 with its population increasing by 80.2% during this time period and having nearly doubled in population since 1991. It is the fifth-largest city in the Greater Toronto Area, and the 17th-largest city in Canada. Toponymy The township was named after Benjamin Vaughan, a British commissioner who signed a peace treaty with the United States in 1783. History In the late pre-contact period, the Huron-Wendat people populated what is today Vaughan. The Skandatut ancestral Wendat village overlooked the east branch of the Humber River (Pine Valley Drive) and was once home to approximately 2,000 Huron in the sixteenth century. The site is close to a Huron ossuary (mass grave) uncovered in Kleinburg in 1970, and one kilometre north of the Seed-Barker Huron site. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serra Yılmaz
Serra Yılmaz (born 13 September 1954) is a Turkish actress. She has appeared in more than forty films since 1983. On a number of films she collaborated with Ferzan Özpetek. She plays the lead role in the theatre piece ''La Bastarda Di Istanbul'', adapted from Elif Şafak's 2006 novel '' The Bastard of Istanbul'' and staged in March 2015 by Teatro di Rifredi in Florence, Italy. In an interview, Yılmaz said that she was an atheist Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no .... In 1991, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and received treatment. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serge Avedikian
Serge may refer to: *Serge (fabric), a type of twill fabric *Serge (llama) (born 2005), a llama in the Cirque Franco-Italien and internet meme *Serge (name), a masculine given name (includes a list of people with this name) *Serge (post), a hitching post used among the Buryats and Yakuts *Serge synthesizer, a modular synthesizer See also *Overlock, a type of stitch known as "serger" in North America *Surge (other) Surge means a sudden transient rush or flood, and may refer to: Science * Storm surge, the onshore gush of water associated with a low-pressure weather system * Surge (glacier), a short-lived event where a glacier can move up to velocities 100 t ... * Serg (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rela Mazali
Rela Mazali (Hebrew: רלה מזלי; born 1948) is an Israeli peace activist and writer. She is one of the leading figures in Israel's peace movement. Life She was born 1948 in the kibbutz Ma'ayan Baruch in northern Israel. Her mother moved to Israel from Kansas City because of her Zionism. Mazali grew up in Tel Aviv. There she studied philosophy and comparative literature at Tel Aviv University. Since 1980, she is an antimilitarist activist against Israel's militarization and military occupation. In 1998, she was one of the co-founders of the feminist movement New Profile, which opposes Israeli militarism and supports conscientious objectors. In 2010 she founded Gun Free Kitchen Tables (GFKT) around disarmament and gun control. She has worked for Physicians for Human Rights–Israel and was a consultant for International Committee of the Red Cross as well as the Ford Foundation. She wrote books, essays, academic articles and short stories around gender equality, children's ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rakel Dink
Rakel Dink (born 1959) is a Turkish Armenian human rights activist and head of the Hrant Dink Foundation. She is the last member of the Armenian Varto Tribe who had settled in Cizre. She is the widow of Hrant Dink, a Turkish journalist and human rights activist of Armenian origin who was assassinated on 19 January 2007. She grew up in the Armenian orphanage, Kamp Armen, in Tuzla and served as the camp's manager for many years. She later became known for her speech at her husband's funeral. Her famous quote – "Nothing can be done without questioning the darkness that creates a killer from a baby." – was well-received by the public and published in the media. Following Hrant Dink's assassination, she became involved in human rights activities and has served as the head of Hrant Dink Foundation since 2007. Life She was born in 1959 in Silopi. She is the second child of Varto tribe's chief Siyament Yağbasan (Vartanyan) and his wife Delal. The Armenian Varto tribe received a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nebahat Akkoç
Nebahat or Nabahat is a feminine Turkish given name A Turkish name consists of an ''ad'' or an ''isim'' (given name; plural ''adlar'' and ''isimler'') and a ''soyadı'' or ''soyisim'' (surname). Turkish names exist in a "full name" format. While there is only one ''soyadı'' (surname) in the full na ... of Arabic origin meaning awakened or honor. Notable people with the name include: * Nebahat Çehre (born 1944), Turkish actress, singer, and model * Nebahat Akkoç (born 1956), Turkish women's rights activist * Nebahat Albayrak (born 1968), Turkish-Dutch politician * ''Nabahat Jah Begum,'' one of the daughters of Muhammad Khair ud-din Mirza, Khurshid Jah Bahadur recognised as head of the Timurid dynasty in India References {{reflist Turkish feminine given names Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hrant Dink Foundation
Hrant Dink Foundation is an organization established following the 2007 assassination of Hrant Dink, a prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist, in order to "carry on Hrant’s dreams, Hrant’s struggle, Hrant’s language and Hrant’s heart". Among the organization's specific goals are to monitor hate speech in Turkey, to study history from a non-nationalist perspective especially using oral history, build relationships between Turkey, Armenia and Europe, and improve democratization and human rights in Turkey. The organization operates a "Turkey-Armenia Fellowship Scheme" enabling Turkish and Armenian professionals to visit the other country with the aim of improving relations, and also participates in the European Union-funded reconciliation initiative, "Support to the Armenia-Turkey Normalisation Process Programme". In 2010, the organization helped organize an exhibition on "Armenian Architects of Istanbul". In 2012, the Platform "I Demand Hate Crime Legislation" was established ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lale Mansur
Lale Mansur (née Yurdatapan; born 1956) is a Turkish actress. She has appeared in more than twenty films since 1988. Selected filmography References External links * 1956 births Living people Turkish former Muslims Turkish agnostics Turkish film actresses Best Actress Golden Orange Award winners {{Turkey-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
