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The concept of utopia itself expresses the desire for a good future and the pursuit of common good. It is claimed that the documentaries of El Pepe: A Great Life (Kusturica, 2018) and Buena Vista Social Club (Wenders, 1999) that describe the area in which the desire is heard to reach that "no place" encounters politics and addresses the potential of change in the imagination activity. In the framework of the work of this thought, these two documentaries will be studied with a historical perspective in the framework of the possibilities and limitations of the place where the utopia and politics intersect. It is important that these documentaries are produced at a time when distopies gain intensity by dominating the cinema and other creative areas. From this point of view, documentaries are considered as reflections of the need for utopies in terms of their own periods. The discovery of Traverso (2018) that the utopia is a category of past and that it does not belong to the present time of societies is the fundamental problem in the axis of the study. But on the other hand, the utopian thoughts create a rhetoric that gives courage and understanding to go beyond the circumstances experienced in them, and the documentary is not ignored. The documentary director Emir Kusturica and Wim Wenders are believed to have partnerships in the context of speaking from the world of the past century to the present day and creating the story of the documentary while incorporating themselves into this story. Both documentaries deal with the bad history of Latin America in an utopian imagination. The documentaries are studied in the framework of the concept of nostalgia that utopia and it can be regarded as temporary twins. Nostalgia is considered beyond the desire for the past, with the facts that remember and remind the possibilities of the past. The attitude in the documentaries is also associated with the concepts of melancholy from the perspective that Traverso discusses. The concept of utopia expresses the desire for a good future and the search for common good. The films El Pepe: A Supreme Life (Kusturica, 2018) and Buena Vista Social Club (Wenders, 1999) are both considered to be utopias as they depict the space where the desire to reach that good "place that does not exist" meets politics and also discuss the potential of dreaming that includes change. Based on this idea, these two documentaries will be analyzed in a historical perspective within the framework of the possibilities and limitations of the place where utopia and politics intersect. It is important to state that these documentaries were made at a time when dystopias were dominating the cinema landscape and other creative fields. In this regard, these documentaries are considered as the reflections of the need for utopies in their own period. According to Traverso (2018), utopia is almost a category of the past and does not belong to the present time of societies, and this evaluation constitutes a main argument in the axis of the study. On the other hand, documentaries are analyzed without ignoring the fact that utopian ideas create a rhetoric that provides the courage and understanding to go beyond the conditions. The directors of the documentaries, Emir Kusturica and Wim Wenders have a connection with each other in the context of their voice almost calling out from the world of the last century to the present time and their inclusion in the narrative while establishing the narratives of the documentaries. Both documentaries deal with the bitter history of Latin America through a utopian imagination. The documentaries are discussed within the framework of the concept of utopia and nostalgia since nostalgia can be regarded as a remarkably similar concept to utopia in terms of time. Beyond the longing for the past, nostalgia is considered with aspects that remember and remind the possibilities of the past. The attitude in the documentaries is also associated with the concept of melancholy within the perspective discussed by Traverso.

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