Yabangee Feature

In the buildup to the summer of 2018, the announcement of a new festival series reaching Istanbul, appropriately titled Electric Playground, managed to turn...

Tanaë is the stage name of up-and-coming Belgian singer-songwriter, Shana Seminara, who has been building the case for herself as a rising star with...

This piece is a follow-up to Turkish Films: Four Istanbuls and a Golden Fleece. “You Can’t Win Them All” (aka “Soldiers of Fortune”), starring Charles...

One Love Festival has been a constant in Istanbul's summer festival scene for over 15 years - one of the key players in a...

The summer heat is upon us, which means that our favorite part of the season also draws near... music festivals! Every year in Istanbul,...

One of the most enlightening aspects of spending time abroad is in realizing just how one's own country portrays the events happening in other...

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...

Marshmello has come a long way since first jumping into the music scene in 2015, by immediately turning heads as an anonymous producer with...

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...

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, a member of the European Creative Hubs Network (ECHN), supports ECHN's mission to foster hubs to pave the way for a more collaborative...

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...

When I was about 12, I was bored to tears by rock music. My brother was in a band and practiced for hours. If...

When you first arrive in the city, you feel drawn to the riotous spectacle of Taksim, or to the multitudes of the street markets...

“If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you,...

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...

Toward the end of the day, I approached the village of Bahtiyar. It was about a few miles off the main road and up...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Taksim Square is a place that is planned into almost every trip to Istanbul, one way or another. The name “Taksim” means “division”, from...