A crea­ti­ve dance docu­men­ta­ry, Otherwise in Istanbul, fol­lows the Istanbulian dancer Mihran Tomasyan, in a nar­ra­ti­ve told through his Armenian fami­ly histo­ry and iden­ti­ty, woven with archi­ves, a coll­ec­tively impro­vi­sed cho­reo­gra­phy and the cha­os of con­tem­po­ra­ry Istanbul.
Otherwise in Istanbul looks at life in Istanbul through Mihran’s sto­ry; his dance years in France as well as fami­ly clips; like his Armenian grand­mo­ther who has wit­nessed the trans­for­ma­ti­on of Turkish Republic, as w…