The Festival on Wheels is gearing up to meet cinema fans once more with several new sections complementing the traditional core of the programme. This year’s Festival on Wheels line-up features award-winning films from World Cinema, the latest work to come out of Turkish cinema, a Dardenne Brothers retrospective, Zeki Demirkubuz’s ‘American Films I Envy,’ productions taking up the Arab Spring, and short films from Finland, including the work of Finnish cinema master, Aki Kaurismäki.
 
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Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism commissioned the Ankara Cinema Association to run the Turkish stand at the 65th Cannes Film Festival, which will be held between 16-27 May 2012.

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We have lost Seyfi Teoman, our young friend and fellow filmmaker, at a tragically early age. We are deeply grieved. We will remember him for his films Apartment, Summer Book and Our Grand Despair, as well as Beyond the Hill, the feature he most recently produced. As part of a young team bringing fresh perspectives to Turkish cinema, Seyfi Teoman put his name to some outstanding projects. His untimely death means a great loss for Turkish cinema. We extend our condolences to his family and all who loved him.

Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism commissioned the Ankara Cinema Association to run the Turkish stand at the 62nd Berlin Film Festival, which will be held between 9-19 February 2012.

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Black & White, the first feature directed by Ahmet Boyacioglu has received the Special Award of the Jury at the 59th Mannheim-Heidelberg Film Festival that was held between 11-21 November 2010.

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Tales from Kars is a portmanteau of the five winning short stories in a script competition held as part of the 2007 Festival on Wheels and spearheaded by the Ankara Cinema Association and former mayor of Kars, Naif Alibeyoğlu. With all five shorts shot in Kars, the ensemble was wrapped with post- production support from the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism and...click to read all >>>