
My Life as a Courgette-(The Life of Courgette) focuses on the life of nine-year-old Icare (nicknamed Courgette), who is placed in a children’s home following his mother’s death. Through Courgette’s relationships with other children in this new environment and their individual past traumas, the film explores themes of trust, solidarity, and belonging. The narrative is shaped from a child’s perspective, concentrating not on direct dramatic events but on their reflections within the child’s world.
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Asırlık Gece is a Turkish television series that explores the preparation process, critical stages, and resistance against the coup attempt of 15 July 2016, blending historical and dramatic genres. Produced as an adaptation of Professor Dr. Hüseyin Aydın’s work Asırlık Gece: Belgeler ve Deliller Işığında 15 Temmuz Darbe Girişimi, the series combines dramatic reenactments with testimonies from witnesses, forming a docudrama format. The series is directed by Cihan Sağlam and Ahmet Toklu and produc
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The Banshees of Inisherin is a 2022 dramatic black comedy film written and directed by Martin McDonagh. The film is set on Inisherin, a remote and fictional Irish island. The events that unfold after the sudden end of a long-standing friendship are explored in the context of small-town life, loneliness and the search for identity. Plot Summary Set in the early 1920s on the fictional Irish island of Inisherin, the film centers on the relationship between Pádraic and Colm, two longtime friends. Af
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Özge Buslu

Descendants of the Sun is a 16-episode television series released in 2016 in South Korea. It was broadcast on the KBS2 channel and belongs to the drama and romance genres. The series was produced by Next Entertainment World and directed by Lee Eung-bok and Baek Sang-hoon. The screenplay was written by Kim Eun-sook and Kim Won-seok. The story revolves around the intersecting lives of a military officer serving in special forces under the South Korean Armed Forces and a surgeon working at a hospit
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Ahsen Karakaş

Civil inattention is one of the fundamental concepts developed by Canadian sociologist Erving Goffman to explain face-to-face interactions between strangers in everyday life. The concept refers to individuals briefly acknowledging the presence of unfamiliar people they encounter in public spaces through a fleeting glance or body language, then withdrawing their attention to respect the other person’s privacy. Thus, the individual demonstrates that they do not ignore the other person, yet also do
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Kadriye Beyza Kirenci

Feryad-ı İsyanım is a contemporary folk song with lyrics by Ozan Emekçi and music by Mazlum Çimen, shaped around themes of individual and collective suffering, the pursuit of justice, and testimony. The song first emerged as a poem and later gained widespread popularity within the oral music tradition after being set to music. Origin and Story of the Song Feryad-ı İsyanım is derived from the epic poem of the same name, a long-term literary work by Ozan Emekçi. The poem was written based on the p
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Beyza Başar

Ayşe Mihriban Şasa (1 February 1941, Istanbul – 16 June 2014, Istanbul) was a Turkish screenwriter and writer. She authored screenplays for numerous films during the Yeşilçam era and played a significant role in Turkish cinema and cultural life through her cinematic writings memoirs interview books and literary works. Her life was shaped around her childhood years education journey transition to cinema period of psychological distress years of seclusion and her relationship with Sufi thought. Li
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