Program Zürich
NURİ BİLGE CEYLAN & Die Türkei zwischen Okzident & Orient (Cinema)
THU 30.10. – WED 26.11. Kino Xenix
Information:
www.xenix.ch
Further Dates:
SAT 01.11. – SO 30.11. Stadtkino Basel
SUN 01.11. , SA 22.11. & SO 23.11. Kino Kunstmuseum
FAZIL SAY & ZÜRCHER KAMMERORCHESTER (Music)
TUE 04.11. 19:30h Tonhalle
Fazıl Say and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, directed by conductor Muhai Tang, join forces to present a concert ‘alla Turca’. Fazıl Say entwines different styles and cultures in his compositions.
Further Dates:
WED 05.11. 20:00h Martinskirche, Basel
SÜRÜ (The Herd) (Cinema)
THU 06.11.08 21:15 Uhr Kino Xenix
FRI 07.11.08 21:15 Uhr Kino Xenix
SUN 09.11.08 21:15 Uhr Kino Xenix
Zeki Ökten, Turkey 1978; 129' OV/df (35 mm, Color)
With Tarık Akan, Melike Demirağ, Erol Demiröz, Levent İnanir, Şener Kökkaya
A highlight in Turkish cinema: The film symbolizes humanity’s struggle for self determination and solidarity.
Sürü, the Herd, is an unusual love story told within a mentally disturbing context with feudal values and social inequalities in Turkish Society in 70's.
Further Dates:
SAT 01.11.08 15:00h Stadtkino Basel
SUN 02.11.08 17:30h Stadtkino Basel
MON 03.11.08 20:00h Stadtkino Basel
Preview: ÜÇ MAYMUN (Three Monkeys) (Cinema)
SUN 08.11.08 21:15 Uhr Kino Xenix
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, TR 2008; 109' OV / df (35 mm, Color, Scope)
Mit Yavuz Bingöl, Hatice Aslan, Rıfat Sungar, Ercan Kesal, Cafer Köse
As in the fable of the three monkeys who refuse to see, hear and speak the truth, the figures in the latest film by Nuri Bilge Ceylan enmesh themselves in a web of lies.
Further Dates:
WED 05.11.08 21:00h Stadtkino Basel
HA ZA VU ZU (Art)
MON 10. – SA 15.11. - Performances
SAT 15.11. 21:00h Konzert ROTE FABRIK
Ha za vu zu will develop a variety of artistic activities, in the venues and throughout the cities. These will include, among other things, photo-karaoke performances, intervention in the city, actions and a
Further Dates:
TUE 18.11., – FR 28.11. Performances Kaserne, Basel
SAT 29.11. Konzert 22:00h Dampfzentrale, Bern
MAYIS SIKINTISI (Clouds of May) (Cinema)
MON 10.11. – WED 12.11. 21:15h Kino Xenix
A young director returns to his home village in Anatolia. He wants to film a comedy but everybody prefers to get on with their ‘real’ lives.
Further Dates:
FRI 14.11.08 15:15h Stadtkino Basel
MON 24.11.08 21:00h Stadtkino Basel
FRI 28.11.08 17:30h Stadtkino Basel
TAKSİM TRİO (Music)
TUE 11.11. 20:30h Moods
Taksim Trio are among the most prominent figures in the Turkish music scene. They create tantalising sounds between oriental traditions, jazz, ambient and avant-garde – tingling arabesques!
Further Dates:
SUN 09.11. 20:00h Burghof Lörrach
SUN 16.11. 20:30h bee-flat im PROGR, Bern
MURAT UYURKULAK (Literature)
THU 13.11. 19:30h Rote Fabrik
Uyurkulak’s first book ‘Anger’ takes the reader along with the novel’s protagonists on a journey through Turkey and its unofficial history from the 1950s through today.
Further Dates:
FRI 14.11. 15:00h NT-Areal, Basel
FRI 14.11. 19:30h Qbus, Uster
WED 19.11. 20:00h Stadtbibliothek Winterthur
HÄSSLICHES MENSCHLEIN (Theater)
THU 13.11. & FRI 14.11. 21:15h Rote Fabrik
Three women – a Kurd, a lesbian and a religious woman tell about their lives in Turkey. They have one thing in common: all of them are confronted by society's prejudices and interventions. Three cleverly cut, subjective views presented in monologues, which lead to the question they all have in common: how it is possible to be
Further Dates:
SAT 08.11. 20:30h & SUN 09.11. 19.00 h Schlachthaus, Bern
SUN 23.11. 19:30h Kaserne, Basel
DR. BAHAEDDIN SHAKIR (1874–1922) - A youngturk excellence (Lecture)
WED 13.11. 16:30h Universität Zürich
Prof. Şükrü Hanioğlu
UZAK (Weit) (Cinema)
THU 13.11. – SUN 16.11. 19:00h Kino Xenix
‘Uzak’ is a minimalist masterpiece, which dares to explore the abysses of modern man with a touch of tragicomedy.
Further Dates:
SAT 22.11.08 22:00h Stadtkino Basel
THU 27.11.08 18:30h Stadtkino Basel
SAT 29.11.08 15:00h Stadtkino Basel
QUO VADIS TÜRKEI? (Lecture/Podium)
FRI 14.11. 19:30h Rote Fabrik
TÜRKISCHE FRÜCHTCHEN (Cinema)
SAT 15.11. 22:30h Rote Fabrik
The following program of current experimental short films from Turkey is a first impression.
DAS ANDERE ISTANBUL(Cinema/Lecture)
SUN 16.11. 13:00 & 16:00h Rote Fabrik
The symposium serves as a conceptual bridge between the S AM exhibition ‘Balkanology’ and Culturescapes 2008 ‘Turkey’. Representatives of individual urban initiatives and urban experts discuss informal building and unregulated urban planning such as the Turkish ‘Gecekondu’ and similar urban phenomena in South Eastern Europe.
Further Dates:
FRI 07.11. 20:30h Queersicht-Lounge, Bern
AYDIN TEKER ‹harS› (Dance)
SON 16.11. 18:30h Rote Fabrik
In the dance ‘harS’, a female dancer investigates the relationship between the human body and an instrument invented by human beings – the harp. Ayşe Orhon, who studied both the harp and dance, investigates the instrument’s spatial and kinetic possibilities and thus arrives at some surprising results: body and object encounter each other in previously unknown terrain, appear to merge with each
Further Dates:
TUE 18. & DO 20.11. 20:30h Kaserne, Basel
SAT 22.11 20:00h Theater Chur
SAT 29.11. 20:00h Dampfzentrale, Bern
YOL (Die Reise) (Cinema)
MON 17.11. – WED 19.11. 19:00h Kino Xenix
Five befriended inmates set out on a prison leave with different hopes. However, the holiday turns into a tragic ‘adventure’.
Further Dates:
SAT 08.11.08 19:30h Stadtkino Basel
SUN 09.11.08 15:15h Stadtkino Basel
WED 12.11.08 18:30h Stadtkino Basel
ERKAN OĞUR - TELVİN (Music)
TUE 18.11. 20:30h Moods
World-class jazz with subtle interpretations and cheerful experimental excursions into freer climes. The renowned guitarist Erkan Oğur and his band know how to integrate various styles of music and cultural influences with great virtuosity.
Further Dates:
FRI 21. & SA 22.11. 20:30h & 21:00h bird’s eye jazz club, Basel
SUN 23.11. 20:00h Theater Chur
Gitmek (My Marlon & Brando) (Cinema)
THU 20.11. 19.15 h Xenix Zürich
FRI 21.11. 19.15 h Xenix Zürich
A dramatic road movie, based on the true story of a Turkish woman, Ayça Damgacı. After losing touch with her Kurdish darling, due to the outbreak of the war in northern Iraq, she sets out in search of him.
At 19./20./22.11. in presence of Ayca Damgaci and Hüseyin Karabey
Further Dates:
WED 19.11. 21:00 h & WED 26.11. 18:30 h Stadtkino Basel
SAT 22.11. 20.30 h & SUN 23.11. 16 h Kino Kunstmuseum, Bern
ACHIEVEMENTS, FAILURES & LEGACIES OF THE YOUNG TURK REVOLUTUION OF 1908 (Lecture)
WED 19.11. 16:15h Universität Zürich
Prof. Dr. Feroz Ahmad
DEVRİMCİ GENÇLİK KÖPRÜSÜ (A Bridge at the Edge of the World) (Cinema)
SAT 22.11. & So 23.11. 19:15h Kino Xenix
At 22.11. in presence of Filmemacherin Bahriye Kabadayı
In her documentary film, the film maker Bahriye Kabadayı shows the different faces of Turkey in a very impressive manner.
KASABA (Die Kleinstadt) (Cinema)
MON 24.11. – MON 26.11. 19:15h Kino Xenix
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, TR 1997; 85' OV / d (35 mm, s/w)
With Cihat Bütün, Emin Ceylan, Fatma Ceylan, Muzaffer Özdemir, Havva, Sağlam, Emin Toprak
A family portrait from the perspective of two siblings who have to learn sympathy, friendliness, forgiveness and other human feelings.
Further Dates:
SAT 08.11. 22:15h & MON 17.11.08 18:30h Stadtkino Basel
İSTANBUL HATIRASI (Crossing the Bridge – The Sound of Istanbul) (Cinema)
THU 27.11. – WED 03.12. 17:00h Kino Xenix
Fatih Akın joins Alexander Hacke (‘Einstürzende Neubauten’) who discovers the sound of Istanbul to be mosaic of different musical universes.
Documentary by Fatih Akın (D & TR), 2005, 90min. Collaboration with Kino Qtopia
Further Dates:
SUN 30.11. 18:30h & MO 01.12. 20:30h QBUS, USTER
TÜREV (Ableitung) (Cinema)
THU 27.11. & Fr 28.11. 19:15h Kino Xenix
MUTLULUK (Das Glück) (Cinema)
SAT 29.11. & So 30.11. 18:45h Kino Xenix
This is no typical story about murder of honor. It focuses much more on the relationship of the three injured and exhausted protagonists.
İKLİMLER (Climates) (Cinema)
MON 01.12. – WED 03.12. 19:15h Kino Xenix
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, TR 2006; 101' OV / d (35 mm, Color)
With: Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Nazan Kırılmıs, Mehmet Eryılmaz, Arif Asçı, Can Özbatur, Ufuk Bayraktar, Fatma Ceylan
Man was made to be happy for simple reasons and unhappy for even simpler ones – just as he is born for simple reasons and dies for even simpler ones... Isa and Bahar are two lonely figures dragged through the ever-changing climate of their inner selves in pursuit of a happiness that no longer belongs to them.
A fascinating study about a couple in a crisis and the human incapacity to achieve happiness played by the director and his wife Ebru Ceylan themselves.
Supporting Film in Xenix Zürich: World Cinema, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, France 2007; OV/d (DVD, color)
Further Dates at Stadtkino Basel:
SAT 01.11.08 22:15h
FRI 07.11.08 17:30h
MON 10.11.08 21:00h
MERCAN DEDE & STIMMHORN (Music)
TUE 02.12. 20:00h Rote Fabrik
The Swiss duo Stimmhorn is known as border-crossers within the Helvetian topography of sound. Christian Zehnder is the voice, Balthasar Streiff the alphorn. Voice and alphorn now meet turntable and Ney flute: Mercan Dede is a traveller. As a musician, producer and DJ he commutes between his adopted home Montreal and his roots in the Bosporus, between modern electronic sound vaults and mystical Sufi spirituality.
Further Dates:
THU 27.11. 20:00h Kaserne, Basel
FRI 28.11. 20:00h Theater Chur
SAT 29.11. 20:30h Theater Chiasso
SUN 30.11. 20:30h Dampfzentrale, Bern
WED 03.12. 20:30h BFM, Genf
THU 04.12. 20:00h Südpol, Luzern