Society & Culture Episodes

Oleksii Isakov holds a Master in Intercultural Communication Studies and a Bachelor in Linguistics and Translation Studies. His main focus is literature and film. He was born in Odesa and has been living in Germany for the la...

In our first episode of the new season, our guest is film director, screenwriter, and creative producer Mariia Ponomarova (1991, Kyiv). Mariia studied film directing and screenwriting at Karpenko-Karyi Kyiv National Universit...

Shelter and housing is taken for granted for most of us. And when we speak of lockdown we generally think of it as an isolation within our own very comfortable four walls. But what about our fellow humans who are …

Oska Melina Borcherding is a director, actor, dancer and musician from the beautiful city of Berlin. I got to know Oska during the Ierapetra Film Festival on Crete in Greece, where he was running with his short film “Giagia” ...

Erik Penny is a US songwriter, musician and painter who has been living in Berlin for more than 12 years. Erik grew up in El Paso, Texas, where he started his musical career as a bassist at the age of …

Thomas Hinterberger is a solo ballet dancer at the Opera National Du Rhin (ONDR) in Mulhouse, France. He got his diploma in ballet dancing from the Academy For Dance and Music in Munich, Germany, in 2001 and he holds a …

Today we are going on the road with an old acquaintance and Yellow Van veteran: musician and filmmaker Jim Kroft, one of my greatest friends and record-holder in consecutive days spent in Fonsi with me. His documentary film “...

Vicky Markolefa is an award-winning visual storyteller and communication expert from Greece. And she is the co-founder of Mind The Bump, the creative collective behind the Yellow Van Stories. But, above all, she is the love o...

Amjad Ramadan was born in Homs, Syria, in 1995. He left Syria due to the civil war and fled to Turkey in 2012 at the age of 17. He then lived in Kastamonou for four years where he enrolled at …

Engeli Haupt was born in South Africa and grew up in the capital Pretoria. She studied linguistics at UNISA, the biggest university of the country, that counts amongst its alumni Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu. 16 years ago ...

In today’s episode I will be speaking to Danny and Laura Seiler, who got stuck in the Moroccan desert during the first lockdown. For two months, they and their two beautiful daughters, lived in an oasis where they were stalke...

Olga Stefatou is a visual artist and curatorial consultant. She recently moved back to her native country Greece after working with Qatar Museums as photography specialist for two years. In her practice, Olga works with mixed...

Leo is a filmmaker, writer, director, and cameraman from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I had the great pleasure of meeting Leo and his wonderful wife Mabel at the International Film Festival Ierapetra on Crete in 2018 and we got al...

Jim Kroft is one of my dearest friends, and an especially talented one as well. Music, videography, and photography are the fields where he excels the most, but I have a feeling if I were to catch him with a …