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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MOTHERS, Aruba review!
Jul 04, 2011 at 01:05 AM

MOTHERS (2010) by director Milcho Manchevski screened at the 2nd annual Aruba International Film Festival (AIFF) 2011. Here find a review of the award-winning film that saw its opening in Toronto at...

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EVEN THE RAIN, with Juan Carlos Aduviri
Jul 04, 2011 at 01:18 AM

 EVEN THE RAIN was directed by Iciar Bollaín and written by award winning screenwriter Paul Laverty. The film takes place in the village of Cochabamba, Bolivia, in 2000. The premise was to make an...

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AS IF I AM NOT THERE, INTERVIEW
Apr 24, 2011 at 06:57 AM

    Interview with director Juanita Wilson   Director Juanita Wilson won the Film Award of the Council of Europe (FACE), presented in scope of Human Rights in Cinema...

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Johannes Stjärne Nilsson, Interview from Istanbul Fest!
Apr 23, 2011 at 05:34 AM

INTERVIEW with director Johannes Stjärne Nilsson, SOUND OF NOISE (2010)   THE SOUND OF NOISE (Sweden, 2010) screened in competition at the 30th Istanbul Film Festival IFF. Co-directed by...

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30th IFF... THE CLOSING CEREMONY
Apr 18, 2011 at 11:47 AM

• FESTIVAL’S WINNERS ANNOUNCED The closure gala of the 30th Istanbul Film Festival took place at Lütfi Kırdar Convention and Exhibition Centre. In the evening, which was presented by Mehmet Ali...

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IFF APRIL 14, 2011
Apr 16, 2011 at 08:09 AM

• AWARDS TIME IN MEETINGS ON THE BIRDGE The winners will be announced at Meetings on the Bridge, the sixth of which takes place this year and which aims to create a platform for the cinema industry...

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MOTHERS at 30th IFF
Apr 15, 2011 at 06:29 AM

'Mothers', Milcho MOTHERS (2010) is the latest film by celebrated Macedonian filmmaker Milcho Manchevski (Before the Rain, 1994) screens at the 30th Istanbul International...

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IFF APRIL 13, 2011
Apr 15, 2011 at 06:09 AM

• MEETINGS CONTINUE ON THE BRIDGE Workshops start in the third day of Meetings on the Bridge, the sixth of which takes place this year and which aims to create a platform for the cinema industry to...

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IFF APRIL 12, 2011
Apr 15, 2011 at 06:05 AM

• MEETINGS ON THE BRIDGE CONTINUE Meetings on the Bridge, the sixth of which takes place this year and which aims to create a platform for the cinema industry to meet, continue. Representatives from...

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WHITE AS SNOW IN IST AT IFF
Apr 14, 2011 at 03:05 PM

WHITE AS SNOW (Kar Beyaz) The film WHITE AS SNOW (Turkey, 2010) by writer/director Selim Gunes screened in İstanbıl during the İstanbul International Film Festival. The film is based on a short...