{"id":47,"date":"2017-06-25T15:43:21","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T13:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newafilm.net\/en\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2026-01-10T17:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T16:24:07","slug":"longing-for-istanbul","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/newafilm.net\/en\/longing-for-istanbul\/","title":{"rendered":"Longing for Istanbul"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background-color: #e8f2f9;\">\n<h1>Longing for Istanbul<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-171 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/newafilm.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/newa-film_sehnsucht-nach-istanbul.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"970\" height=\"546\" \/><\/p>\n<p><div class='content-column one_half'><div style=\"padding:10px 10px 10px 15px;\">The Metropolis of Istanbul is next to the cities of Essen (Germany) and Pecs (Hungary) Europe&#8217;s Capital of Culture last year. Almmost one third of Istanbul&#8217;s population consists of newly arrived minorities like Kurds who migrated westward from the Turkish-Kurdish conflict that has been onging since almost there decades. But in the ciry still live also small remaining groups of historically long-established minorities such as Greeks, Roma, Armenians and Jews, many of whom felt compelled to emigrate after the founding of the Turkish republic.<\/p>\n<p>By following different bands and their music, the film attempts to uncover the traces of these minorities in ordner to learn about their lives and their relationship with the history and the present of this multi-ethnicmetropolis.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class='content-column one_half last_column'><div style=\"padding:10px 10px 10px 10px;\"><p><strong>Documentary<\/strong> 2010, HD, 58 min.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Book &amp; Direction:<\/strong> Y\u00fcksel Yavuz<\/p>\n<p><strong>Camera:<\/strong> Cemil Kizildag, Ercan Erdemir<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editing:<\/strong> Cetin Tutak<\/p>\n<p><strong>First broadcast:<\/strong> Arte 30.09.2010<\/p>\n<p>A production of Newa Film<br \/>\ncommissioned by WDR<br \/>\nin cooperation with ARTE<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class='clear_column'><\/div><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longing for Istanbul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-47","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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