The 39th Istanbul Film Festival, organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) with the support of Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism, was postponed to a later date due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The largest, most established, and most influential film festival in Turkey, Istanbul Film Festival will screen a selection of 15 recent films online between 15 and 29 May.
>> Click here to watch the festival films online.
Held in April since 1984, the Istanbul Film Festival is a pivotal event for the city’s prominence on the international festival map. Not wanting to stay further away from its audience during this period, the festival is to screen 15 recent and award-winning films online. The Online Screenings available only in Turkey will be launched on filmonline.iksv.org.
A film will launch each day until 29 May and will be available to streaming. The films will be streamed in their original language with Turkish subtitles. Tickets are available on the same web site to festival audiences in Turkey only.
Films to be screened within the Online Screenings in launching order:
- Berlin Alexanderplatz / Burhan Qurbani / Germany, the Netherlands, France, Canada
- You Will Die at Twenty / Amjad Abu Alala / Sudan, France, Egypt, Germany, Norway, Qatar
- Servants / Ivan Ostrochovský / Slovakia, Romania, Czech Republic, Ireland
- Un monde plus grand / A Bigger World / Fabienne Berthaud / France, Belgium
- 5 è il numero perfetto / 5 is the perfect number / Igort / Italy, Belgium, France
- Es gilt das gesprochene Wort / I was, I am, I will be / İlker Çatak / Germany, France
- Litigante / Franco Loli / Colombia, France
- Yi zhi you dao hai shui bian lan / Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue / Jia Zhang-ke / China
- Schwesterlein / My Little Sister / Stéphanie Chuat, Veronique Reymond / Switzerland
- Lillian / Andreas Horvath / Austria
- Vrba / Willow / Milcho Manchevski / North Macedonia, Hungary, Belgium
- 1982 / Oualid Mouaness / Lebanon, France, USA, Norway, Qatar
- Walchensee Forever / Janna Ji Wonders / Germany
- Martin Eden / Pietro Marcello / Italy, France, Germany
- Petite Fille / Little Girl / Sébastien Lifshitz / France
