TCC Queens will be provided film screening on February 11, 2012

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Kelebek/Butterfly

It's 1996... almost five years before the 9/11 catastrophe..

But the foundations of the catastrophe are being laid...Because it is a complex world and nothing starts a day early...It's Afghanistan... the hottest days

of the civil war... Thousands of people who have lost their lives, properties, and homes.Are expecting the conflict to end...

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Musa Rami, who has become a legend with his struggle against the mafia, is a police officer at homicide division.  One day prior to celebrating his 63rd birthday, with a surprise party arranged by his family, he finds out that he has cancer and two months left before his death. In these two months, will he be able to fight against the mafia that has intensified its threats against his family and simultaneously reveal his deep love to Funda, who is a university student 40 years younger than him?..

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Turkish story telling in English was performed with a shadow puppetry in Queens Library.  Karagoz is a form of shadow theater in Turkey in which figures known as tasvirs made of camel or ox hide in the shape of people or things are held on rods in front of a light source to cast their shadows onto a cotton screen. The usually comic stories feature the main characters Karagoz and Hacivat. It was enjoyed by many kids as well as parents who attended the show at the Queens Library.

Intangible Cultural Element

Karagöz is a form of shadow theatre in Turkey in which figures known as tasvirs made of camel or ox hide in the shape of people or things are held on rods in front of a light source to cast their shadows onto a cotton screen. A play begins with the projection of an introductory figure to set the scene and suggest the themes of the drama, before it vanishes to the shrill sound of a whistle, giving way to a main performance that may incorporate singing, tambourine music, poetry, myth, tongue-twisters and riddles. 

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Mevlana, who was the most humanistic philosopher of all times, stated that success starts with the "Love of Human Beings", and his thoughts have continued to the present. The love for Mevlana is gradually increasing  especially in the western countries. The Mevlana Museum is among the most interesting places in the city. In the Museum there are various Korans, vases, musical instruments and carpets belonging to the Seljuks, and various items belonging to the Mevlevis, and under the tomb, which is covered on the exterior with green glazed tiles, are the sarcophagi of Mevlana and his father.

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