#ceyda torun

[wrongcarwhy]

Kedi (2016), dir. Ceyda Torun

#kedi #cats of istanbul #documentary #ceyda torun

[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

Kedi (Gatos de Estambul), Ceyda Torun, 2016

#Ceyda Torun #tell it with a movie still

[arinewman7]

Still from Kedi

Directed by Ceyda Torun

2016

#Ceyda Torun #art #artist #film #director #Still from Kedi #Kedi #2016 #Directed by Ceyda Torun

[farminglesbian]

Kedi (2016) Ceyda Torun

#kedi #ceyda torun #documentary #cat #this is full of beautiful cats and beautiful people but also....for the love of god please have some of these street cats neutered #anyway. glad i could watch this on mubi <3

[ketsiyah666]

The cats of Istanbul in Kedi (2016) dir. Ceyda Torun

#cats #ceyda torun #istanbul #kedi

[reconcavo]

Documentário: Nove vidas - Gatos em Istambul (2017)

Direção: Ceyda Torun

#gatos #gatos em Istambul #documentário #ceyda torun #Istambul #turquia #Turkey #Istanbul #cats #documentary

[tempestades]

#kedi #ceyda torun #turkey #istambul

[fruitblr]

KEDI (2016) dir. Ceyda Torun

#kedi #filmedit #cats #dailyflicks #dailyworldcinema #ours #by plum #farmers market fruit

[verses-to-my-heart]

Everything is beautiful when you look at it with love - Kedi (2016) dir. Ceyda Torun

#Kedi dir. Ceyda Torun

[bleedingpomegranate]

the earth is spinning. we can't just stand on it. 𓍊𓋼⊹𓆏

1 January 1965, joseph brodsky [trans. george l. kline] / dexter (2006-2013); s4e12 "the getaway" / ruby elliott / a voice from i don't know where, mary oliver / @engulfes / dino ahmetović / kedi (2016) dir. ceyda torun / i thought on his desire for three days, linda gregg / the iliad, homer / murder in the yoga store, peter ross range / the fourth sign of the zodiac, mary oliver / @sunsbleeding (x) / jh hard / @arthoesunshine / to be alive, gregory orr / @senaycuce (x) / agatha christie

#juno's webs #web weaving #world #life #this life is so beautiful #i am so lucky to be alive #joseph brodsky #mary oliver #dino ahmetovic #kedi #linda gregg #the iliad #homer #jh hard #gregory orr #agatha christie #on: life #webs

[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

Kedi, Ceyda Torun, 2016

#Ceyda Torun

[machineryangel]

any turkish movie recs?

HI YES i've been waiting for this ask my entire life

Kurak Günler (2022) dir. Emin Alper*

Emre, a young and dedicated prosecutor, is newly appointed to a small town hit by a water crisis and political scandals. After an initial welcome, he experiences an increasing number of tense interactions and is reluctantly dragged into local politics. When Emre forms a bond with the owner of the local newspaper pressure escalates under heated rumours.

trigger warnings: animal cruelty & abuse, graphic animal death, sexual abuse & rape (potentially of a minor, the victim's age is not clear), hunting, drought, sinkholes, drugging, hallucinations, homophobia, physical assault, harassment, guns & rifles and other weapons, riots

Bizim İçin Şampiyon (2018) dir. Ahmet Katıksız*

The mid 90’s. Turkey’s political instability, inflation and hopelesness on people were increased. In those years when all hope was lost, people deeply bond with Bold Pilot and Halis Karataş who win every race coming from the last place. People see themselves at the point where this horse and jockey are: at the back. This duo make people to believe that everybody can win. The race ends at the finish line and the first to cross this line are Bold Pilot and Halis riding it.

trigger warnings: terminal illness, misogyny (+ possibly more, it's been a while since i've seen this movie)

Mucize (2015) dir. Mahsun Kırmızıgül

1960s Turkey countryside. A newly assigned teacher finds out that the solitary village is missing a school. He gets fond of the village people and especially a disabled man. The teacher helps the village to build a new school and educate the children and the disabled man.

trigger warnings: ableism (very graphic; e.g children & teenagers are seen throwing rocks at a physically and mentally disabled person), use of ableist slurs, misogyny & sexism, guns & rifles, celebratory gunfire, animal cruelty & killing, brief non-sexual nudity, suicide attempt, harassment

Dedemin İnsanları (2011) dir. Çağan Irmak*

A feature film that tells the story of the director’s grandfather who was forced to leave Crete in the 1920s during the Greek-Turkish population exchange.

trigger warnings: forced displacement, death of an infant by illness, xenophobia, homophobia, suicide

Kedi (2016) dir. Ceyda Torun*

A profile of Istanbul and its unique people, seen through the eyes of the most mysterious and beloved animal humans have ever known, the Cat.

Also I haven't seen Yedinci Koğuştaki Mucize (2019) dir. Mehmet Ada Öztekin & Babam ve Oğlum (2005) dir. Çağan Irmak but i've heard rly good things about them & they're on my watchlist <3

Additionally, pls note that except for Bizim İçin Şampiyon & Kedi, all of these movies are very political. They include population exchange, military coups, the hypocrisy of rural people, anarchist people getting arrested unjustly and disappearing in custody, etc. If you're not familiar w Turkish political climate in the last century, they could be hard to follow at times, but all of them are rly worth watching.

the ones w asterisk are my faves <3

#also imo mucize has a questionable ending but i don't wanna spoil it in this post so if you want to know more you can dm me <3 #this took me a while to compile so ty for ur patience <3 #answered

[serpentinaz]

The cats of Istanbul in Kedi (2016) dir. Ceyda Torun

#kedi #Kedi 2016 #nana.txt #guys this is so cute and wholesome just 80 minutes of following cats around Istanbul and the locals talking abt their relationship with them #a very life affirming and spiritual documentary I recommend it if you’re feeling down and looking for an easy and comforting watch #film screencaps #cinematography

[creative-anchorage]

The social psychologist Samuel D Gosling of the University of Texas has studied the personality traits of self-identified “dog people” and “cat people”. He found that cat lovers score higher on neuroticism and openness to experiences, whereas dog people are more extroverted, agreeable and conscientious. “I wasn’t surprised by the findings,” he says. “If you think about the role that dogs and cats play, they afford different types of interaction. If you like to go walking and get out and about, a dog is a more obvious choice. But if you are more introverted and like to sit in a chair and spend time at home, cats demand less social interaction.” But this is not to say that cat owners aren’t interested in the world around them. Far from it. Rather, they contemplate nature’s ineffable mysteries not on a muddy trudge through the park, but from the comfort of their own homes. “Openness,” says Gosling, “is about ideas and intellect. People who are high on openness tend to be more abstract thinkers, and more creative and imaginative and philosophical.” Not for nothing is the philosopher with a cat on their lap a beloved internet meme. The Turkish-American film-maker Ceyda Torun documented the rambunctious street cats of Istanbul in her award-winning 2017 documentary Kedi (“cat” in Turkish). Among the local people who loved and cared for these cats, one quality stood out: “Their capacity for philosophical thought and introspection,” she says. “It didn’t matter where they were from, or what level of education they had. You could see it in their eyes. They had that flicker of light. The light was on.” It is the wildness of a cat – how distinctly non-human they are – that draws us in. Unlike humans, who are social creatures who live communally, and dogs, which likewise live in packs, cats “are solitary hunters”, says the philosopher John Gray, author of Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life. “Female cats are deeply attached to their kittens. But that’s about the limit of cat attachment. Cats can grow fond of the company of particular humans. But they don’t need them.” Gray believes that “if you are the kind of person who wants to see the loyal, loving, trustworthy part of yourself in an animal, you will look to dogs. If you want to see out of the human world, into another world, where a different animal lives without these defining human needs, you will love cats.” In other words, loving a dog is like gazing into a particularly flattering mirror. Cat people look outwards, through a window into nature.

When she was growing up in Istanbul in the 1980s, says Torun, “cats were my best friends”. There was one cat in particular: a grey-and-white tabby with green eyes. Her name was Boncuk. “I was around six when she appeared,” says Torun. “I fed her and she stuck around. Even if I petted her too aggressively, she was never harsh with me. She adopted me and I was her human servant, fetching salami and bowls of milk.” What this relationship taught her, says Torun, is that “it is possible to love something, but not want to possess it”. Boncuk was her own creature, utterly free – requesting Torun’s assistance, yes, but never expecting it. They had a relationship that existed outside the servile ties that bind dog to master. “It’s about having that relationship with an animal,” explains Buzzel, “that chooses independence, but at the same time, chooses you.” Torun believes that the charm of a cat is even coded into their genetics. “We’ve messed with dogs too much,” she says. “We’ve bred them too much. They no longer resemble their authentic selves. That’s why people are so attracted to dogs that look like wolves. Because it’s that wild beauty that you don’t see in a chihuahua.” (Torun hastens to add that she has no particular animus towards chihuahuas. “Bless them,” she says.) ... And the contented purrs of a prone lapcat are a form of natural ASMR. “Probably the best sound in the world is the purr in your ear of a cat,” says Buzzel. “I don’t think any sound works better than that. There’s a natural therapy about it.” Mills explains that purring “is a care-soliciting behaviour. Cats show it when they are very happy, but also when they are seeking help and assistance, which is probably why cats do it when they die.” ... Buzzel has a unique insight into the dog and cat owning communities respectively. [...] “The sense of community is stronger in the cat world than the dog world,” he says. [...] If you have a dog, you love your dog. If you have a cat, you love all cats. You’re fascinated by everyone’s story about their cats.” But in truth, the distinction between dog lover and cat person is somewhat artificial. [...]  Torun identifies herself as a lover of all animals. “I wonder how much people make themselves believe they are a cat person or a dog person,” she says. “And part of that way of thinking is just a way to belong to a group. It’s tribalistic. It’s kind of unfair to cut yourself off from any possible relationship you can have with a dog or a cat by saying you’re a dog person, or a cat person. That’s limiting to me.” She never knew what became of her beloved Boncuk. [...] “She taught me smaller lessons about boundaries,” says Torun, “attachment, letting go. But the bigger lesson was of knowing that I am not alone in this great big world. If you restrict yourself too much to human relationships, it’s very easy to feel alone.”

#cats #dogs #animals

[dopedoodlepup]

Kedi (2016) dir. Ceyda Torun

#kedi #kedi 2016 #cats #istanbul

[foolhearteyes]

Kedi (2016)

dir. Ceyda Torun

#gif set #gif #kedi #kedi 2016 #cats #guess who can make gifs now lol #gifs by yours truly