Brazil unfolds through song: drums, longing, rebellion, and laughter stitched together across streets and histories. These five tracks reveal a country that dances through hardship, where music becomes memory, resistance, and the art of staying alive.
Fragments of the World
Fragments: The Holy River Jordan Disappearing into a Sea of Irony
If today you tried to cross the holy and powerful River Jordan – the river that both connects and separates Israel and Palestine from Jordan; the river through which the Jews entered the Promised Land; the river in which John the Baptist baptized Jesus; a river of Biblical, but also […]
Fragments: On Beethoven, Joy, and Defying Fate
The pandemic is celebrating its second birthday, Austria is in chaos over movement restrictions for the unvaccinated, and this profile is at risk of sliding into the territory of a curated Instagram timeline. That said, since we’re already talking about Vienna and a country that has always mass-produced, let’s say, […]
Between the Orient and the reality: Grand Bazaar
It opened up every morning with the sound of azan and shopping was something you did by casually negotiating over a cup of Turkish coffee or tea. This, however, changed once Western ideas came to the East. The bazaar look has changed forever.
Gypsy in Istanbul
The spectacular illusion hides the community divided between ‘us’ and ‘them’. No-go zones of the poor were suppressed by the no-go zones of the rich. All in the name of ”modern age”. And Roma, where are they today?
Beirut, caramel and women
Caramel was directed by Nadine Labaki from Lebanon. She dedicated the movie to women and their everyday life in Beirut. The plot is presented through the lives and dreams of employees and customers of a local beauty salon. A movie about women, female friendship and warmth of human relationships below the chaos and clashes.