33rd Istanbul Film Festival April 5–17, 2014

This year, Istanbul Modern Cinema hosts three sections of the Istanbul Film Festival: While the selection “What a Pair!”, compiled by film critics and scholars, celebrates the 100^th anniversary of cinema in Turkey with a very special program of 38 films, the section “The Cultural Legacy of the Manaki Brothers” features the complete restored works of the brothers Yanaki and Milton Manaki, who started making films in 1905, were the first filmmakers of the Balkans, and citizens of the Ottoman empire. In the third section, “Creating a Nation through Cinema,” prepared for the 100^th anniversary of World War I, film critic Rüdiger Suchsland's documentary Caligari, When Horror Comes To Cinema (Caligari - Wie der Horror ins Kino kam) and a masterpiece of German cinema People On Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag) will be screened together.

A total of nine panels will be held at Istanbul Modern Cinema in conjunction with the screenings in each section.

WHAT A PAIR

Talks

Fantastic and Horror in Turkish Cinema

Saturday, 5 April, 16.00

What is the state of our political cinema?

Sunday, 6 April, 16.00

What is the state of our arthouse cinema?

Tuesday, 8 April, 16.00

Video Art and Turkish Cinema

Wednesday, 9 April, 16.00

“What are we laughing at?” – Comedy in Turkish Cinema

Friday, 11 April, 16.00

Kitsch and Queer in Turkish Cinema

Saturday, 12 April, 16.00

Making Documentary Film

Wednesday, 16 April, 16.00

THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE (İSTANBUL´UN FETHİ ), 1951

Turkey | Betacam , B&W 89’ |

Director: Aydın Arakon

Cast: Sami Ayanoğlu, Turan Seyfioğlu, Filiz Tekin, Cem Salur, Eşref Vural

Films:

GRANDMOTHER DESPINA

CHORES – WEAVING WOMEN

OUTDOOR CLASS

LAUNDRY WOMEN

FAIR

MARKET PLACE AND BUTCHERS

VERIA FAIR

VLACH NOMADS

SUMMER MOUNTAIN PASTURE

VLACH FOLK DANCE

ST. GEORGE'S DAY CELEBRATION

EPIPHANY CELEBRATION IN VERIA

RURAL WEDDING

VETERINARY STATION

TURKISH PROFESSOR AT THE AGRICULTURE SCHOOL

THE CELEBRATION OF SAINT CYRIL AND SAINT METHODIUS DAY

ALL SAINTS' DAY

FAIR AT THE HOLY SUNDAY CHURCH IN BITOLA

REPRISALS OF THE MACEDONIAN POPULATION

FUNERAL IN BITOLA

MANIFESTATIONS ON THE OCCASION OF YOUNG TURKS’ (JEUNES TURKS') REVOLUTION

CELEBRATIONS OF THE DECLARATION OF THE SECOND CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY

PARADE CELEBRATING THE DECLARATION OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY

TURKISH CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY SPEECHES

TURKISH INFANTRY AND CAVALRY PARADE

TURKISH ARTILLERY PARADE

PROCESSIONS

MILITARY BAND PARADE, CONDUCTORS AND CAVALIERS

ROMANIAN DELEGATION VISITING BITOLA (1911)

ROMANIAN DELEGATION VISITING GOPESH (1911)

ROMANIAN DELEGATION VISITING RESEN (1911)

PANORAMA OF GREVENA

GREVENA CHURCH

THE FUNERAL OF METROPOLITAN AIMILIANOS OF GREVENA (1911)

PANORAMA OF THE CITY OF GREVENA

THE FIGURE OF THE MARTYR, METROPOLITAN AIMILIANOS OF GRAVENA

THE CORPSES OF THE NATIONAL MARTYRS AIMILIANOS AND HIS DEACON

THE CHURCH OF ST. ACHILLEUS IN GRAVENA, WHERE MARTYR AIMILIANOS’S CORPSE WAS LAID

PAYING RESPECT TO THE REMAINS OF THE NATIONAL MARTYR AIMILIANOS BY THE POPULATION

THE FUNERAL OF THE ALWAYS REMEMBERED METROPOLITAN AIMILIANOS OF GRAVENA

TAKING THE MITER OFF AND LAYING THE DECEASED INTO HIS GRAVE

TURKISH SULTAN MEHMED V RESHAD VISITING THESSALONIKI (1911)

TURKISH SULTAN MEHMED V RESHAD VISITING BITOLA (1911)

ALEXANDER KARADJORDJEVIC VISITING BITOLA

WELCOMING OF THE GREEK KING AND HEIR APPARENT PAVLOS BY GENERAL BOJOVIC IN BITOLA

PARADE OF SERBIAN ARMY IN BITOLA

EPIPHANY CELEBRATION IN BITOLA

THE CITY CAFÉ OPENING IN BITOLA

WEDDING IN BITOLA

UNIDENTIFIED FILM FOOTAGE