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Film at the OttomanBank Museum:
"Gitmo - The New Rules of War"
 Under the theme "Social Memory/Documentary Film," the Museum's movie theater is showing the Swedish documentary Gitmo - The New Rules of War on Thursday, February 1, at 7:00 p.m. Co-directed by Eric Gandini and Tarik Saleh, the film attempts to shed light on what is happening in the US base at Guantanamo Bay. Following the screening, journalist, writer and founder of Barış Girişimi İnsiyatifi (Initiative for Peace), Aydın Engin will conduct a discussion entitled "The New Rules of War - The New Lies of War."
About their documentary, the filmmakers said the following: "What is going on in Guantanamo Bay? After April 2003, we had become even more curious to find out. The year before, a Swedish citizen had been taken to Gitmo (the army nickname for Guantanamo). A year later, nothing had changed, he was still detained there. Guantanamo has become accepted as something normal. We went there to try to find out what was happening to the prisoners."
The Museum's film program is prepared in collaboration with the Documentary Filmmakers Association (BSB) and offers a film, complemented by a discussion, on a different theme every week. Screenings are held free of charge. Please call (0212) 334 22 70 to make reservations.
Arna's Children
Gitmo - The New Rules of War
Directors: Eric Gandini, Tarik Saleh
Sweden/ 80 mins. / 2005
Discussion: "The New Rules of War - The New Lies of War", Aydın Engin
(journalist, writer and founder of Barış Girişimi İnsiyatifi (Initiative for Peace) |
Aydın Engin
Born in 1941, in Ödemiş, Engin obtained a degree in Law from Istanbul University in 1958. Between 1967 and 1970, he founded and directed the Halk Oyuncuları Theater. In 1970, he began to work as a reporter for the agency Türk Haberler. He was executive editor for the magazine Yeni Ortam from 1970 to 1971 and for the daily Yeni Ortam from 1975 to 1976. Between 1975 and 76, he was general publishing director of his own news agency, İSTA. Since 1994, he has been a reporter for the newspaper Cumhuriyet for which he also writes the column Tırmık. In 2000, he was appointed NTV Radio's founding director and since 2004, he has been a freelance writer for the daily Berliner Zeitung and the weekly Freitag. |
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Documentary Filmmakers Association (BSB) started out as a civil platform and began its structuring process following the National Conference held in March 1997. Today it continues its activities as an association with professional status, certified by the Ministry of Culture. Starting with Istanbul, Ankara, Eskisehir and Izmir, BSB is in contact with documentary filmmakers throughout Turkey. Convinced that civil culture is crucial in designing better social futures and filling the blanks of collective social memory, the Documentary Filmmakers Association considers these functions complementary to the creative aspect of documentary filmmaking. BSB creates and promotes screening spaces other than television, organizes and participates in film festivals all over Turkey and offers film screenings with discussions, especially in universities. |
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