The Festival on Wheels first took to the road in 1995... With a mission to present outstanding examples of cinema to film enthusiasts in different cities around Turkey and to introduce Turkish cinema to the rest of the world. Before the festival wheels were oiled and turning, ...

The Festival on Wheels first took to the road in 1995... With a mission to present outstanding examples of cinema to film enthusiasts in different cities around Turkey and to introduce Turkish cinema to the rest of the world. Before the festival wheels were oiled and turning, people’s experience of cinema in the far-flung corners of Turkey was no more than the odd piece of news on television or in the newspaper. In cities without even a movie theatre to speak of, getting to a cinema was a hope...

During the Karlovy Vary film festival, just completed, Dr. Ahmet Boyacioglu, founder of "The European Festival on Wheels" in Turkey, announced that this year the festival will for the first time be extended beyond the borders of Turkey itself. The home base of the festival is Ankara and regular stops along the way usually include Bursa, Izmir and other inland cities. This year the festival will open in Ankara then move all the way across the isthmus to Kars in extreme eastern Turkey near the bo...

The winners of the 5th International Audiovisual Festival in Baku, AzerbaijanGrandPrix - Raul Cherezo “Scorn” (Spain) The best feature film - Mikis Mazarakis“Aphelium” (Sweden) The best documentary - Hagit Keysar “A drive on an alleged road” (Israel) The best animation - Oksana Chernenko“Bad sign” (Ukraine) The best author TV-program - Emil Djumabaev “Song of Dusk” (Kirgyzstan) The best clip - Punhan Hasanli“My God” (Azerbaijan) The best video-art - Yonatan Vinitsky“I m...

It was one of those times I wished I had a documentary crew following me around. How could I capture my incredulity at having my own documentary premiere in Azerbaijan?... From the first moment- when I was intrigued by an invitation by the Film Directors Guild of Azerbaijan to premiere my documentary "Dear Juliet" at their upcoming international film festival... to the moment when I realised that the award being called out for "Vendi Dent" was indeed meant for me. Where to begin, where to begin?...