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International Istanbul Film Festival Is 30 Years Old!
The Festival That Brought Spring Along Is Between April 2-17
Sponsored by AKBANK for 7 years, the 30th Istanbul Film Festival will take place during April 2-17. With approximately 150 thousand participants last year Istanbul Film Festival is again the biggest cinema event of Turkey and offers a rich content this year as well.
Cinephiles will again have the opportunity to watch the films at Istanbul Film Festival with very convenient prices. Ticket prices of the festival are determined as full 12 TL, student and senior (over 65) as 8 TL. The morning sessions will be only 4 TL. The tickets for the Akbank Galas are 15 TL. Films screened as part of the Turkish Cinema section of the festival will again be 4 TL for all sessions. Festival screenings will take place at 7 movie theatres: Atlas, Beyoğlu AFM Fitaş 1 ve 2, Beyoğlu, Nişantaşı CityLife Cinema (City's), Pera Museum theatres in Beyoğlu and Rexx in Kadıköy. THE FESTIVAL IS 30 YEARS OLD!
In 2011, the Istanbul Film Festival will celebrate its 30th year with many new projects. 30th Year Book and Exhibition "30: 30 Years from 20 Directors" For the occasion of the 30th year celebrations of the Istanbul Film Festival, a special book will be published, which acts as an important archive. In this book titled "30: 30 Years from 20 Directors" the role of the festival in our personal histories is told by 20 directors who grew up and discovered cinema with the festival. Aside from the texts of 20 directors of recent international success, all of whom write on an inspiring film they saw during Istanbul Film Festival, the book includes evaluative pieces of local and international critics on the relationship between directors' art and their choice of film, as well as interviews about the 30 year journey of the festival.
The photos of 20 directors shot by photographer Muhsin Akgün in different spots at Emek, Atlas, Beyoğlu, Sinepop and Yeşilçam theatres in Beyoğlu will be exhibited at Atlas Arcade beginning on Saturday March 19th until the end of the festival. The book, which will be a unique archive and a guide for the 30 years of the festival for the cinephiles, can be purchased at festival venues and IKSV Design Store beginning from the first day of the festival, Saturday April 2nd. 30th Year Special Section: "30 Years in Film" The Festival programme includes a selection of films screened in the 30 year history of the festival. Nineteen films selected by 19 directors for the 30th Year book will be screened as part of a special section. Prepared by 19 directors raised by the Festival, this section will present the opportunity for cineastes to watch the films of the great directors they have discovered in the Istanbul Film Festival once again. Festival's 6 year sponsor Digiturk is sponsoring the "30th Year Special" Section with the Moviemax Festival channel.
Films to be screened under "30 Years in Film" include: * The
Cry / Michelangelo Antonioni(Zeki Demirkubuz' selection) Under this section of the festival, Derviş Zaim's selection, a monumental film, Shoah's director Claude Lanzmann, will be the festival's guest for a special conference. With the New York Times saying "one of the names that changed the world's point of view to Holocaust", Claude Lanzmann, will attend a special conference at Salon on April 10, Sunday at 14:00. A
SPECIAL WORLD PREMIERE FOR THE 30th YEAR:
In its 30th year, the Istanbul Film Festival will host a unique project by bringing together two leading names of cinema and music. During the 30th Istanbul Film Festival, one of the most original auteurs of French cinema, Claire Denis and a British rock band she frequently works with for her films, Tindersticks, will come together on stage for the very first time with a concert titled "Claire Denis Film Music 1996-2009".The world premiere of the cine-concert project of Claire Denis and Tindersticks will take place during the 30th Istanbul Film Festival, April 11th, Monday at 21.00 at Fulya Art Centre. The tickets for this special concert with the scenes from Claire Denis films are sold through Biletix sales channels and IKSV. Concert tickets can be purchased at Atlas and Beyoğlu theatres at Beyoğlu and Rexx theatre at Kadıköy beginning from March 19th. Ticket prices are 80 TL, 50 TL, and 30 TL (student). Claire Denis is well-known by festival followers and has been a guest of previous festivals. This year she is heading the Golden Tulip International Competition Jury. Denis will be in Istanbul to view competition films during the second week of the festival. Five Claire Denis films, for which Tindersticks created the soundtracks, will also be screened during the festival. The section titled "Claire Denis - Tindersticks: Music and Film" includes the first collaboration of Denis and Tindesticks in the 1996 production Nenette and Boni, as well as Trouble Every Day, The Intruder, 35 Shots of Rum and White Material. EVERY NIGHT AN AKBANK GALA AT THE FESTIVAL As one of the most attended sections of Istanbul Film Festival, Akbank Galas will give the exclusive opportunity to cinephiles to watch 10 films, which bring stars and master directors together, before anybody else. The Danish director Susanne Bier of Brothers, After Wedding and Open Hearts is collaborating with the writer Anders Thomas at her Oscar winner film In a Better World. The film is telling a revenge story with children of two families. Famous French actor Guillaume Canet's third directorial work Little White Lies was a huge box-office hit in France. Starring Canet's wife, Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard, among other stars of French cinema, the film follows a bourgeois group of Parisian friends who decide to spend their annual vacation by the sea despite an unfortunate accident. Mike Leigh's last work Another Year follows the life of a married couple during four seasons of the year. The film is listed among the "Best Ten Films" of the year by publications such as Rolling Stone, The New York Times and Entertainment Weekly, and the leading actress Lesley Manville received the Best Actress Award of USA National Cinema Board in 2010. The great director François Ozon's last feature Potiche is an adaptation from a stage play and a return to the star-studded glamorous comedies. Set in 1977 in Sainte-Gudule, a town in northern France, the film is a bawdy comedy on politics, women's rights and the role of women in society. The great names of French cinema Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu star as leads in this comedy. The Conspirator, directed by master actor and director Robert Redford, is an action packed thriller on the trial of US President Abraham Lincoln's assassination. The film depicts the true story of a woman who is ready to do anything to protect her family and a man who risks everything to protect her and brings together famous names such as James McAvoy, Robin Wright, Kevin Kline, and Evan Rachel Wood. Mark Romanek's last film, adapted from Japanese-born British author Kazuo Ishiguro's award winning novel Never Let Me Go, is another anticipated film of the AKBANK GALAS... Adapted to screen by the script writer of 28 Days Later, Sunshine and Halo, Alex Garland, the film takes place in a dark and alternative world. Starring in the film are the beautiful actress Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield, who, after his success in The Social Network will play Spider Man in Spider Man 4, and Carey Mulligan, who won the Best Actress Award at British Independent Film Awards with her performance in this film. The director of Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Shortbus, John Cameron Mitchell's latest film Rabbit Hole is adapted from the Pulitzer-winning play with the same name and is among the "Best ten films of the year" as selected by Time magazine. Nicole Kidman stars in this film, which is also her first undertaking as a producer. According to Mitchell, Rabbit Hole is a "beautiful melancholy, like a song traversed by happiness." Michael Winterbottom's latest film The Killer Inside Me is a cruel, violent and controversial adaptation of Jim Thompson's 1952 pulp fiction with the same name. Set in a small town in Texas, it is a film about "destruction of love, compassion, and privacy." The film is screened at Sundance, Berlin and Tribeca festivals and stars Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson and Jessica Alba.
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films in 21 sections will be shown in the festival, and a wide ranged
programme composed of special retrospectives exclusive to the 30th
year includes new films premiered in January at Sundance and in
February at Berlin, Golden Tulip International and National Competitions
as well as The Film Award of The Council of Europe (FACE), and documentaries
and children's films. The Istanbul Film Festival that united cineastes
of Istanbul with the most successful and prestigious films of the
world, star actors and directors for 30 years, promises two weeks
full of cinema.
