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

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.

In covering the 2003 International Istanbul Film Festival last April, I noted the resurgence of Turkish directors and film; and much has happened in the year since on the global festival circuit to ...

23/03/2015 - The tenth edition of Istanbul Film Festival's industry section will for the first time include international projects and a training programme The tenth edition of Meetings on the Bridge, ...

At a welcome dinner for the 37th Istanbul Film Festival, an actress stood up and in halting, emotional English asked everyone to listen to a story the world needs to hear. This March, a troupe of ...

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 ...

Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American rights to Ceyda Torun’s “Kedi,” a documentary about the street cats of Istanbul. Oscilloscope will release the film theatrically in early 2017, ...

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 ...

As the Turkish government cracks down on creative freedom, filmmakers and programmers search for a way to keep their movies alive. At a welcome dinner for the 37th Istanbul Film Festival, an actress ...