Kismet: How Turkish Soap Operas Changed the World
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Duration | Director Nina Maria Pashalidou Country Greece, Qatar, France, Croatia, Bulgaria, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, Serbia, Canada, Finland, Singapore, Cyprus, Hungary | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Language Turkish, Greek, English, Bulgarian, Arabic Release date March 27, 2014 (2014-03-27) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kismet: How Turkish Soap Operas Changed the World is a 2014 documentary film written and directed by Nina Maria Pashalidou about Turkish television drama series, commonly referred to as Turkish soap operas. It is Pashalidou’s second feature documentary.
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The film examines the effects that the soap operas have had on the lives of their female viewers from various regions, including the Balkans, the Middle East, and North Africa. The film uses interviews of women who view the soap operas, as well as those who act, produce, and write the television shows.The first Turkish soap opera that was aired internationally was Gümüş (also known as Noor in Arab nations) and was met with high viewership mostly due its popularity with women. Paschalidou depicts the television shows as acting not only as female fantasy represented on screen, but also as a vehicle for societal change.