

This documentary presents the past and present of Istanbul’s famed Grand Bazaar, whose history spans nearly five centuries. The film offers an intimate portrait of the bazaar through the perspective of a sherbet seller who has walked its streets for forty years, capturing the rhythms of daily life and the continuity of tradition within one of the city’s most enduring cultural spaces.
40.000 Steps in the Grand Bazaar was directed by Suha Arın.
40.000 Steps in the Grand Bazaar runs for 29min, and was released in 1980.
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