Nobody was calling. So we wrote a story.
That’s how Nadir Sarıbacak tells it: he phoned Ayhan Hulagu and said they should write something, because nobody was calling. When the film was finished we didn’t wait for a distributor either. We started with one night in Washington, D.C., audiences began voting for their own cities, and we went where the votes were. That came to 46 nights across the US and Canada since April, including eight in Los Angeles. This fall it crossed to Europe, ten nights from Brussels to Paris, and now it is in cinemas across Germany. So far, 41 nights have sold out.
Washington, D.C.HoustonDallasAustinPalo AltoSeattleOrange CountyLos AngelesMontclairWayneAtlantic HighlandsRaleighAtlantaMinneapolisLas VegasNorth HavenNew YorkTorontoBoulderJacksonvilleOttawaLong IslandOrlandoCharlotteChicagoBrusselsLondonBerlinRotterdamAmsterdamStockholmOsloFrankfurtCologneParisDüsseldorfHempstead, NYDuisburgOffenbachHamburgPaderbornBochumStuttgartFreiburgPittsburghPelham, NYAachenMunichHaarlemHelsinkiViennaAthensJohannesburgWarsawHannoverSydneyBredaMelbourneLeipzigKarlsruheAugsburgPerthPhoenixDaytona BeachLarkspurPoznańTeaneck, NJBeacon, NYWindham, NYSalt Lake CityDes MoinesCarpinteria, CAIdyllwild, CABar, MontenegroReykjavikFort LauderdaleCharlottesville, VA
Vote for your city
People in more than 20 countries have asked for Gazelle in their city. Amsterdam asked loudest, and the tour went there in October.