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 (...
Londoners, if you missed the recent screening of Kedi at the BFI, you have another chance! This must-see film for cat and Istanbul lovers offers an intimate and fascinating tour of the streets, alleys and enclaves of Turkey’s biggest metropolis from a cat’s-eye-view. Roaming the streets...
A casting agency is keen to find professional Turkish speaking actors in the UK for an experimental film about Susurluk – one of Turkey’s most infamous car crashes in recent times. Atmosphere Entertainment has put the call out for middle-aged male actors to play two key characters in Scar,...
To celebrate LGBT Pride Month, the Frontline Club is screening two short films about the Turkish and Latin trans communities. Directors Andy Hayward and Olivia Crellin will be present for a Q&A discussion about their mini documentaries, chaired by India Willoughby, Britain’s first tran...
