A short film by a Turkish Cypriot filmmaker has been selected for this year’s Fighting Spirit Film Festival (FSFF) Short Films competition that is being screened at Hackney Picturehouse. Bulent Ozdemir-Larusso’s Brawler, which will make its world premiere at the FSFF on Saturday, 7 September, is up against 34 other short films from around the […]
Merve Dizdar made history in Cannes at the weekend after she was named Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival, becoming the first Turkish actress to win the award. She won the prize for her role as Nuray, a teacher in a remote village who has to deal with male harassment at her school, in […]
Turkish film director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s latest film, Kuru Otlar Üstüne [‘On Dry Grass’] has been selected to compete for the Palme d’Or and other top prizes at France’s prestigious Cannes Film Festival. Kuru Otlar Üstüne is one of 19 feature films to be selected for the festival’s 76th edition, which this year will run […]
If you are a filmmaker with a new film that features or involves Turkiye, then the Taste of Anatolia – Films from Turkey film festival want to hear from you! Launched in 2018 by Cambridge-based film charity Balık Arts, this year will mark the fourth edition of the festival, which aims to showcase the rich […]
Six great Hollywood-inspired Turkish movies to watch at the Cinema Museum in Kennington, South London, as part of the Remakesploitation Fest 2022 this weekend! The Turkish film industry of the 1970s-80s was notorious for reworking Hollywood. From Star Wars through to Some Like it Hot, filmmakers in Turkiye would produce their own unofficial remakes of […]
The Turkiye-Germany Film Festival returns for its 26th outing with a magnificent gala on Friday, 11 March.. This year’s opening movie is Bergen, starring Farah Zeynep Abdullah in the lead role. The film is based on a tragic real-life story about Bergen, a Turkish arabesque singer with a cult following who fights to keep performing despite enduring […]
On Thursday, 2 September, the third edition of Taste of Anatolia – Films from Turkey gets underway. This year, the festival is screening 38 movies, the vast majority of them making their UK premiere. As Britain’s only independent Turkish film festival, this four day event offers Turkish cinema lovers the chance to see a highly […]
Balık Arts has been inundated with film submissions for its four-day Turkish film festival in September. The Cambridge-based film charity received an astonishing 1,469 submissions from filmmakers hopeful of being included in the official selection for this year’s Taste of Anatolia – Films from Turkey. Festival Director Yeşim Güzelpınar said the application process had been […]
The organisers of Taste of Anatolia are calling on filmmakers whose films were produced or co-produced in Turkey to contact them so they can be considered for this year’s film festival. Launched in 2018 by Cambridge-based film charity Balik Arts, Taste of Anatolia – Films From Turkey promotes independent films from Turkey. Over a weekend […]
If you’re looking for films beyond the obvious choices, this week-long movie fest packed with gems produced by upcoming directors and screened at some of the world’s best film festivals is guaranteed quality viewing. ‘Cut Short, Live Long’ (CSLL) is a new annual short film festival that will be making its digital debut simultaneously in London, […]
