Balkanmania
Balkanmania

Balkanmania October 20–30, 2016

Istanbul Modern Cinema presents a program which brings together the freshest examples of Balkan cinema and comprises of most-loved, award-winning and hit films in recent years’ festivals with the contributions of Türk Tuborg A.Ş. Reflecting the current socio-political process experienced in the Balkans, these stories also showcase the pursuit of a distinctive cinematic language. Leaving behind a successful year, Romanian cinema is among the most prominent in the selection: This year’s Palme d’Or competitor, Sieranevada is an intense family portrait by Cristi Puiu – an important director of the Romanian New Wave. Athina Rachel Tsangari, a witty representative of the Greek New Wave Cinema which has been on the rise in recent years, is included in the program with her new film, Chevalier which portrays the partly stupid and mostly sarcastic states of six men racing against each other’s manhood on a luxury yacht in the middle of the Aegean Sea. Another prominent film in Balkanmania is Death in Sarajevo, a summary of the history of Bosnia-Herzegovina which has paralyzed the country for a century that starts at Hotel Europe with the 100th anniversary of the assassination that started World War I and continues with the Holocaust and the Bosnian massacre.