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235 articles available in total starting from 24/02/2003. Last article published on 23/07/2025.

Review: Dormitory

Review: Dormitory

VENICE 2023: Turkish helmer Nehir Tuna’s debut shows two sides of a bad education, all told with compelling force  

03/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti

Nehir Tuna  • Director of Dormitory

Interview: Nehir Tuna • Director of Dormitory

“Coming-of-age stories are my favourite genre”

VENICE 2023: The Turkish director delves into the many nuances of his first feature, a film you’d be a fool to sleep through  

02/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti

Review: A Day, 365 Hours

Review: A Day, 365 Hours

Despite the multitude of approaches and styles employed, Eylem Kaftan manages to send a clear message about domestic abuse in Turkey with her documentary  

16/08/2023 | Sarajevo 2023 | Documentary Competition

Nick Read and Ayse Toprak • Directors of My Name is Happy

Interview: Nick Read and Ayse Toprak • Directors of My Name is Happy

“We were trying to capture the personal impact of gender-based violence on a family”

The co-directors discuss their documentary about a young Turkish singer whose rise to fame was interrupted by an attack from a suitor, and her fight for women’s rights  

05/06/2023 | /UK/Turkey

Nuri Bilge Ceylan  • Director of About Dry Grasses

Interview: Nuri Bilge Ceylan • Director of About Dry Grasses

"What neither time nor culture changes are the souls that are similar everywhere"

CANNES 2023: The Turkish filmmaker delivers some insights into his new film centered on a teacher feeling stuck in an isolated corner of Anatolia  

22/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Competition

Review: About Dry Grasses

Review: About Dry Grasses

CANNES 2023: Nuri Bilge Ceylan helms a new masterpiece in his inimitable signature style, furtively casting an eye over agonising existential indecision with consummate cinematic mastery  

20/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Competition

Ilker Çatak to follow up The Teachers’ Lounge with Yellow Letters

Ilker Çatak to follow up The Teachers’ Lounge with Yellow Letters

The director’s fifth feature, to be shot in Hamburg and Berlin this autumn, will follow a Turkish artist couple who are forced into exile  

21/03/2023 | Production | Funding | France/Germany/Turkey

Review: My Name Is Happy

Review: My Name Is Happy

Ayşe Toprak and Nick Read's film tells the incredible story of Multu, a Kurdish teenager with a golden voice who miraculously survives an attempted murder  

20/03/2023 | FIFDH Geneva 2023

EU and UK cinema attendance up 63% in 2022 but still short of pre-pandemic levels, the European Audiovisual Observatory finds

EU and UK cinema attendance up 63% in 2022 but still short of pre-pandemic levels, the European Audiovisual Observatory finds

In the two territories, ticket sales for 2022 were 34.5% below the 2017-2019 average, accounting for an estimated loss of 338.9 million admissions  

17/02/2023 | Box Office | Europe/UK/Turkey

My Magical World wins the TRT Prize at WEMW

My Magical World wins the TRT Prize at WEMW

The new film by Elvin Adigozel has emerged as the victor of the latest edition of First Cut+  

30/01/2023 | Trieste 2023 | WEMW/Awards/Sponsored

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