A FADING LANGUAGE, A FADING CUISINE Kaybolan Bir Dil, Kaybolan Bir Mutfak
The documentary chronicles the progressive loss of the centuries-old language and food culture of the Jewish community that immigrated to the Ottoman Empire from the Iberian Peninsula in 1492.  The film opens with a display of photographs illustrating both the pleasant and the troublesome times of Sephardic families in Turkey. Academics, writers, and native speakers talk about the extinction of the Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) language and the simultaneous loss of Sephardic culinary practices. SELECTED FESTIVALS AND AWARDS Istanbul Film Festival, Turkey: Special Screening DENİZ ALPHAN Deniz Alphan is a journalist. She worked as the editor-in-chief of the weekend supplements of two daily newspapers, Sabah and Milliyet. She retained the same position in the Vizyon magazine for about twenty years. She has also worked as a copywriter and as a commercial director. She is the writer of two books, Dina’s Kitchen and There is a Man in the Kitchen. Her documentary, A Fading Language, a Fading Cuisine is her first experience in filmmaking. She was born in İstanbul (1947) and still lives there..		SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2018 12:00 pm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Remis Auditorium 465 Huntington Avenue Boston In Competition Directed by Deniz Alphan Doc. / 57' 22" / 2017 Featuring: İlber Ortaylı, Aylin Öney Tan, Karen Gerşon, Şarhon, Mario Levi, Eliza Pinhas, Yossi Yusuf Pinhas, Mari Benmayır, Gila Benmayor, Soli Özel, Caludia Roden, Yalçın Türkoğlu, Mehmet Tanrıkulu Films in this session: Hidden Heaven / Saklı Cennet On the Edge of Menderes / Menderes Kıyısında A Fading Language, A Fading Cuisine / Kaybolan Bir Dil, Kaybolan Bir Mutfak