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Keywords

  • Location: Istanbul
  • Sooner Europe Docs: New Perspectives
  • Sooner Exclusives
  • conflict
  • economy
  • gentrification
  • lifestyle
  • urban living

Director

  • Giulia Frati

Documentary


1h 38min


16+

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Canada
France
2019

Istanbul is being transformed by gentrification. We follow street vendors as they are robbed of more than just their livelihood.

Istanbul is being transformed by gentrification. We follow street vendors as they are robbed of more than just their livelihood.


In the streets of Istanbul, they sell everything - fabrics, food, curtains - and some of them have been doing it for over 50 years. But their way of life is about to change. Due to rapid gentrification, authorities want to create a "modern and clean" environment.


In just five years, working-class neighborhoods have been demolished and their residents evicted. For the street vendors, more than their livelihood is at stake: Their entire culture and tradition is threatened.


"Dramatically speaking, then, we are witnessing a death struggle. Giulia Frati turns it into a declaration of love, a highly political one at that." (tagblatt.de)

Cast & Crew