The FT’s film critic takes us on a cine-tour of the megalopolis, featuring James Bond chases, a psychedelic heist, domestic dramas and the music of its streets ...

The 15th Istanbul Biennial is joining forces with the 36th Istanbul Film Festival to create a film program that functions under the biennial’s title and theme, “a good neighbor.” Curated by Elmgreen & ...

Writer and director Gürcan Keltek discussed religion, sound and music, and his next projects before his first fiction feature had its world premiere in the Locarno Film Festival's competition lineup.

Although auteurs like Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Yesim Ustaglu, Reha Erdem and Semih Kaplanoglu remain the standard bearers for Turkish cinema on the international festival and arthouse circuit, they ...

The Match Factory has acquired international rights to the newly restored 4K version of Fatih Akin’s documentary Crossing The Bridge: The Sound Of Istanbul ahead of its retrospective screening at the ...

14/04/2015 - In protest at the government ban on the screening of the PKK documentary North on formal grounds, Turkish filmmakers pull their films from the festival At a press conference on 13 April, ...

The awards of 38th İstanbul Film Festival have been granted. While the Golden Tulip in International Competition has been awarded to "The House of Hummingbird” by Bora Kim, “A Tale of Three Sisters” ...

Deftly interweaving five contempo vignettes with fairy tale flavors, slick criss-crosser “Istanbul Tales” is both a compulsively watchable entertainment as well as an atmospheric love letter to one of ...

Films from Turkey are the rising star of Mediterranean cinema and the 27th International Istanbul Film Festival. By The Associated Press ISTANBUL, Turkey — Films from Turkey are the rising star of ...

Istanbul is a city at the center of the old world, for milllenia a crossroads of civilization, trade, and cultural exchange. On the many sailing ships entering the Bosporus over the centuries came the ...