It’s been running since 1993, but this year the London Turkish Film Festival (LTFF) is being screened entirely online. As a result, many more people from across Britain and abroad can now watch their fabulous selection of feature films, documentaries and shorts at a time and place convenient to them...
In keeping with its innovative nature, this year’s London Turkish Film Festival (LTFF) is going entirely online, allowing people living across the length and breadth of Britain and abroad to enjoy its eclectic, high-quality selection of screenings. Starting this Thursday, 23 November, and running...
The week-long International Izmir Short Film Festival closed this weekend with a spectacular awards ceremony held at the historic Havagazı Fabrikası. Local and international guests packed into this 150-year-old French-built former gas factory, which has been restored as a stunning cultural centre, t...
This Friday, King’s College London will screen Wish to Wash with Rain / Yağmurlarda Yıkansam (2016), a heart-wrenching film about a young woman forced to face up to her traumatic childhood. The film is the award-winning debut feature of director Gülten Taranç, who will also be present for...
Sundance 2018 is just around the corner and anticipation is high as to what themes will be explored among the hopefuls when the festival takes place in January. Founded in 1978, Sundance is the largest independent film festival in the US, annually attracting over forty thousand people to Park Cit...
The 61st BFI London Film Festival (LFF) got underway earlier this week. Over a period of 12 days, the festival will screen 243 features from 67 countries in 15 cinemas across the capital. The festival’s eclectic world cinema programming includes four very different Turkish films: Distan...
An arts and film charity well-known for its transnational cultural projects with Turkey and North Cyprus has launched a new pop-up cinema project for people living and working in East London. Balik Arts has just launched The Hamlets. This new project will not only bring world cinema scr...
Last month, the long-running London Turkish Film Festival announced it was turning to crowd-funding to help keep it going. So far the campaign has raised just under £1,500. As we enter the last week of the fundraising campaign, we give our readers ten good reasons to support this important...
The UK’s second oldest foreign film festival is reaching out to film lovers and the Turkish community alike for vital financial support. The London Turkish Film Festival (LTFF) is aiming to raise £30,000 by 8 September to help keep this important annual event going. Running since 1993,...
British Turkish film star Mem Ferda is back on the silver screen in a lead role as an East-End gangster in the gripping action thriller London Heist. Driven by “honour and respect”, this pacey, violent drama charts a criminal on the warpath after his father is brutally murdered. Ferda (...
