Istanbul Film Festival

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The largest, most established and most influential film event in Turkey, the Istanbul Film Festival has over the past 30 years, presented Istanbul audiences with a total of more than 3,250 films, showcasing the cinema of 103 countries, and attracting a total audience number of 3,150,000. With an audience of 150,000 in 2011, it is also considered the biggest Turkish film festival. Established in 1982 as a film week, and accredited by FIAPF in 1989, the Festival aims at encouraging the development of cinema in Turkey and promoting films of quality in the Turkish market. As such, the Festival incorporates the Meetings on the Bridge platform, and within the frame of this programme, a competitive Feature Film Project Development Workshop that was initiated in 2008, and a Work-in-Progress sidebar in order to support the Turkish film industry and Turkish film professionals. In 2015, the MoB began to accept submissions from neighbouring countries.

The Istanbul Film Festival features an International Competition (limited to films on arts and the artist or literary adaptations) with a monetary award of a total of €25,000 as its grand prize the Golden Tulip. Showcasing Turkish cinema as the most active promotional, international platform in Turkey, the Festival features a National Competition, A National Documentary Competition, and a Human Rights in Cinema competition endorsed by the Council of Europe. The festival each year screens around 200 feature films, and takes place in April.

 

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Interview with Raşit Çelikezer at Istanbul Film Festival
Apr 09, 2012 at 07:11 AM

08.04.2012 Raşit Çelikezer director of Can, one of the movies in the National Competition section, talks about his movie and his excitement about the competition. Can premiered in Sundance in...

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Interview with Muzaffer Özdemir at İstanbul Film Festival
Apr 09, 2012 at 07:17 AM

09.04.2012 A protest against the massacre in nature! Muzaffer Özdemir known as an actor in Nuri Bilge Ceylan films is now a director. With his film, Home, that carries autobiographical...

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Interview with director Umit Unal at Istanbul Film Festival (8/4/2012)
Apr 08, 2012 at 11:38 AM

Ümit Ünal, who competes for the Golden Tulip in the National Competition selection at Istanbul Film Festival, returns to films confined to a single space with The Pomegranate as he did in 9 and...

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Interview with Edgardo Cozarinsky at Istanbul Film Festival
Apr 07, 2012 at 01:25 PM

An Argentine Istanbul writer… Memories of a lovelorn man, walking around Buenos Aires after a break up, unites with memories of world and cinema history. Poems praising the night are the music...

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Interview with Ann Hui at Istanbul Film Festival
Apr 07, 2012 at 08:48 AM

Old age by the Oscar nominated film from Hong Kong… A Simple Life, Oscar-nominated film from Hong Kong which achieved great box office success in the Fareast, is essentially a family love...

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31. Istanbul Film Festival Daily: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Apr 07, 2012 at 01:25 PM

  YESTERDAY AT THE FESTIVAL (06.04.2012) • PLANS FOR THE FESTIVAL WEEKEND ARE MADE! While the second weekend of the festival has already come, festival audiences bought their tickets...

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Robert Wieckiewicz is in Istanbul, interview on 04.04.2012.
Apr 06, 2012 at 03:17 PM

- In Courage, you had to act a man who was in essence a coward, and in In Darkness, your character is quite courageous in contrast. Their inner conflicts are so powerful. But how was the transition...

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31. Istanbul Film Festival Daily: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow 06/04/2012
Apr 06, 2012 at 02:12 PM

YESTERDAY AT THE FESTIVAL • TOWARDS THE MIDDLE OF THE FESTIVAL As we are approaching to the end of the first week and to the middle of the festival, festival venues are full of screenings...

Our Grand Despair
Birgit Gudjonsdottir and 'Our Grand Despair'
Jul 04, 2011 at 01:01 AM

 On April 17th, during the closing ceremony of the 30th Istanbul Film Festival (IFF), the award for the best DOP went to Birgit Gudjonsdottir for her work in the Turkish film, OUR GRAND DESPAIR...

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WHITE AS SNOW, an interview with Selim and Nur Gunes
Jul 04, 2011 at 01:00 AM

One of the most memorable films I have seen this past year was the haunting and lyrical film WHITE AS SNOW (Turkey, 2010) by director Selim Gunes and producer Nur Gunes. This is an unforgettable...