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Celçuk Yöntem, Ugur Polat, Halil Ergün, Pitircik Akerman,

 MOVIES REMBETIKO

1991 - Colour- 120’

Production:

Rembetiko Ltd., Greek Film Centre Direction: Costas Ferris Screenplay: Costas Ferris, Sotiria Leonardou Cinematography: Takis Zervoulakos Art Direction: Manotis Maridakis Editing: Yanna Spyropoulou Music: Stavros Xarhakos Cast: Sotiria Leonardou, Nikos Kalogeropoulos, Nikos Dimitratos, Michalis Maniatis, Themis Bazaka, Constandinos Tzoumas, Giorgos Zorbas, Viki Vanita

The first half of 1980’s, during which numerous people were put in prison because of their political ideas. A university professor, who has just been released despite his on-going case, comes to Cunda island of Ayvalik for a short vacation with his wife. The pension they choose to stay is kept by an elderly lady-Sidika- who has come from Girit in 1924. Homeland stories of those who have lived here for more than a half a century as well as the image of a Greek solicitor who has found refuge in Cunda during the Military coup in Greece transform the short vacation to a journey into past and future ... The professor will come to Cunda five years later, alone this time, having been sentenced to many years and will try to make the difficult decision of whether to find refuge on the other side of the water.

Duration: 110’ , 1983, GREECE The biography of a popular singer, who is born in Smyrna in 1917 and dies in Athens in 1955. The passing of the rebetico song from Anatolia to mainland Greece as a result of the wave of refugees as well as from the world of social misfits to the nightclubs. The heroine’s travels, loves, professional successes and personal disasters. All these and a distinctive look at the events that played an important role in Greek history in the middle of the twentieth century, are accompanied by the music of Stavros Xarhakos, written to lyrics by the poet Nikos Gatsos. The reconstruction of the era, the invoking of the lost ethos of the old time singers and all the elements of popular melodrama go to make up this realistic epic that won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Festival.

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SEA SUYUN ÖTE YANI Direction: Author: Camera: Music: Cast:

Tomris Giritlioğlu Feride Ciçecoğlu Orhan Oğuz Yeni Türkü Nur Sürer, Meral Centikaya,

Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de L’Europe

12. CONCERTS & BANDS Ayyuka is founded in 2001 in Eskişehir, however the group members knew each other from Samsun Anatolian high school. Group members are: Özgür Yılmaz (guitar, vocal), Ahmet Kul (guitar), Altan Sebüktekin (bass guitar), and Alican Tezer (drums). Özgur is the songwriter and the group uses improvissation techniques. Group has 2 demo albums. Baba Zula: The group, founded in 1996 by Levent Akman (percussion, rhythm machines, toys), Murat Ertel (saz and other strings, vocal) and Emre Önel (darbuka, sampler, vocal) in Istanbul, was joined by William Macbeth (bass, double bass) from San Francisco in the same year. Working as a four-man core team since then, the group was augmented by the new member Oya Erkaya (bass guitar, vocal),

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