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11.11.2015

″Hasret – Yearning″: Istanbul by Ben Hopkins

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A director is commissioned to make a documentary about Istanbul. He starts to film its everyday life... but soon becomes drawn to the darker side of the city... its past, its secrets, its ghosts. Gradually he succumbs to obsession.

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