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As the April tulips bloom and the city starts to feel like spring, there’s no better time to settle into a dark movie theatre and get transported.
April’s highlight is the 38th Istanbul Film Festival, which this year has 186 films, including a retrospective of Stanley Kubrick’s entire filmography.
If you’re looking for more films after the film festival ends, the ReelLife Film Programme continues with a screening on April 25, followed by a panel discussion.
If you find yourself in Izmir, Mersin, Antalya or Adana, the 17th International Filmmor Women’s Film Festival on Wheels continutes its travelling programme through those cities.
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Two shows in Istanbul featuring the English-born Navine G Khan-Dossos, a visual artist steeped in the Islamic tradition, afford a rare chance to see an expanded vision of her measured philosophy.
Beloved of birds and bees, prized by Ottoman sultans and Bourbon kings, pears are a particular joy eaten ripe from the tree. But cooking coaxes the flavour out of even those mass-market varieties grown for a long shelf life and ripened in cold storage
Peter Alford Andrews and his late wife, Mügül, set out to catalogue the traditional yurt – the ultimate portable dwelling. It became their life’s work.
