Open Call: Asya Dilem Summer School for Turkish Lessons
From the organization:
ASYA DİLEM is an İstanbul/Turkey based Language School for foreigners who wish to explore Turkey and its culture. For this we created...
Electric Playground Istanbul: Nine Reasons to Check Out Marshmello
Marshmello has come a long way since first jumping into the music scene in 2015, by immediately turning heads as an anonymous producer with...
Retrospective – Creative Backlash Conference (EU-Turkey Funded via Connect for Creativity)
EU-Turkey funded Connect for Creativity announces its first international conference Creative Backlash!
Connect for Creativity aims to form a network of creative hubs across Europe...
Ramazan Dos and Don’ts for Yabangees
The Holy month of Ramadan aka Ramazan has started here in Turkey and over this thirty day period devout Muslims fast during daylight hours....
ATÖLYE’s Creative Hub Director Atılım Şahin joins the European Creative Hubs...
ATÖLYE, a member of the European Creative Hubs Network (ECHN), supports ECHN's mission to foster hubs to pave the way for a more collaborative...
Walk Across Turkey: The Asian Ghost
Friday, 12 October
The next day I woke up early, packed up my stuff, and took a look around the room. Eight hours ago I...
Discovering Barış Manço Museum
When I was about 12, I was bored to tears by rock music. My brother was in a band and practiced for hours. If...
Want a Romantic Evening? Try Kuzguncuk
When you first arrive in the city, you feel drawn to the riotous spectacle of Taksim, or to the multitudes of the street markets...
Finding and Following Your Way
“If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you,...
A Cat, A Rat, and Two Teyzes
It started with my husband spotting a rat on his way to work.
"Don't get scared, but I saw a mouse on the ground floor...
Walk Across Turkey: Bahtiyar
Toward the end of the day, I approached the village of Bahtiyar. It was about a few miles off the main road and up...
Go Anywhere and Belong Everywhere! – Girl Gone International
Moving to a new city, where you don’t really know anyone? There is a lot of excitement when you open a new chapter in...
Behind the Scenes at the IKSV 38th Istanbul Film Festival: Daily...
Oray’s choice
Winner of the Best First Film Award at Berlinale, Oray conveys the struggles of a man with issues of adaptation. Following the screening...
Behind the Scenes at the IKSV 38th Istanbul Film Festival: Daily...
The film that best describes Lynne Ramsay: Ratcatcher
The president of this year’s International Competition Lynne Ramsay attended the screening of her 1999 film Ratcatcher...
Behind the Scenes at the IKSV 38th Istanbul Film Festival: Daily...
Festival talk with Ümit Ünal
A festival talk was held with the participation of director, author, screenwriter and the President of National Competition Jury Ümit...
ATÖLYE Joins kyu to Establish International Creative Communities
The kyu Collective announced this month that it has acquired a majority stake in ATÖLYE, the Istanbul-based creative company.
Headquartered in New York, kyu is...
Behind the Scenes at the IKSV 38th Istanbul Film Festival: Daily...
A passion, a legend, a factory of masterpieces: Kubrick
The 38th Istanbul Film Festival celebrates the great filmmaker Stanley Kubrick in a section called Factory...
Istanbul Productivity: Six Cafes to Head with Your Laptop Near Taksim
Taksim Square is a place that is planned into almost every trip to Istanbul, one way or another. The name “Taksim” means “division”, from...
Behind the Scenes at the IKSV 38th Istanbul Film Festival: Daily...
Festival Talk with Lynne Ramsay
The Festival is proud to host esteemed filmmaker Lynne Ramsay as the president of this year’s International Competition Jury. A...
April 22 Preview: Bosphorus Review of Books Chats with Writer Burhan...
Istanbul is a good city for writers. They have been living here forever, from Turks like Elif Şafak and Yaşar Kemal to foreigners like...
Behind the Scenes at the IKSV 38th Istanbul Film Festival: Daily...
Ten Women and Türkan Şoray
Restored by Atlas Post Production in collaboration with Zurich Sigorta, the screening of Ten Women (1987) took place in attendance...
Walk Across Turkey: Breaking Free From Eğirdir
Monday and Tuesday, 8 and 9 October
I enjoyed the pension at Eğirdir so much that several days when my week’s vacation was finished, I...
Behind the Scenes at the IKSV 38th Istanbul Film Festival: Daily...
All about Firuze
International Competition entry Beloved is about the life of Firuze who lives on the Alborz Mountains in Iran. The film, which tells...
Behind the Scenes at the IKSV 38th Istanbul Film Festival: Daily...
"This is the story of a woman who manages to transform her life."
Adapted from Christine Angot’s novel, An Impossible Love is about a love...