Istanbul International Film Festival
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Istanbul International Film Festival is the first and oldest international film festival in Turkey. It is held every year, around the end of April in movie theaters in Istanbul, Turkey. As mentioned in its regulations, the festival aims to encourage the development of cinema in Turkey and to promote films of quality in the Turkish cinema market.
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History
The Istanbul International Film Festival was first organized in 1982, within the frame of the International Istanbul Festival as a "Film Week" consisting of six films. The theme of the films participating in the Festival was limited to "Arts and the Movies", to keep the event within the context of the International Istanbul Festival. In 1983 the event was realized under the title of "Istanbul Filmdays", taking place throughout the Festival within a span of a month.
Beginning from 1984, the event gained an identity as a separate activity; it was shifted to the month of April. In 1985, two competitive sections, one being national and the other international, were included in the festival program.
In the following years, The Istanbul International Filmdays firmly established its position and took its place among the major film festivals of the world with the large number of films shown and the quality and versatility of its program.
At the beginning of 1989 the event was recognized as "a competitive specialized festival" by FIAPF (International Federation of Film Producers Associations) and was accredited. Parallel to this development, "Istanbul Filmdays" was renamed as "Istanbul International Film Festival".
Beginning from 1996, "Lifetime Achievement" and "Honorary" Awards began to be presented to local and international cineastes, actors and actresses.
Since the beginning of the Festival, a total of 2,065,000 spectators attended the screenings of 2,330 films from 72 different countries.
Program
The selection and programmation of the festival films are conducted by the selection committee and the advisory board. The program consists of an international competition open only to feature and animated films on art and adaptations, a national competition, non-competitive, informative sections on specific themes which can include documentaries, shorts and feature films.
The 2004 program which included more than 200 films from over 60 countries comprised of the following sections:
International Competition
National Competition
Special Screenings with Live Orchestra
Retrospectives
Tributes
Midnight Screenings
Mined Zone
Young Stars of the World Cinema
From the World of Festivals
Cinema: the Mirror of our Times
Journey to Hope: Emigrants
Documentaries
The World of Animation
Latin American Cinema
Awards list
These awards are presented within the context of the festival:
Golden Tulip for the best film in the international competition
Best Turkish Film of the Year
Best Turkish Director of the Year
Special Prize of the Jury
Special Mention
Best Actor and Best Actress (national competition)
Honorary Award
Lifetime Achievement Award
FIPRESCI Prize
People's Choice Award
Golden Tulip winners
| Year | Film | Director |
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| 2004 | Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Bu San) | Tsai Ming-liang |
| 2003 | Suddenly (Tan de repente) | Diego Lerman |
| 2002 | Magonia | Ineke Smits |
| 2001 | No Place to Go (Die Unberührbare) | Oskar Roehler |
| 2000 | Clouds of May (Mayıs Sıkıntısı) | Nuri Bilge Ceylan |
| 1999 | El Viento se llevó lo qué (Wind with the Gone) | Alejandro Agresti |
| 1998 | Ayneh (The Mirror) | Jafar Panahi |
| 1997 | The King of Masks (Bian Lian) | Wu Tian-ming |
| 1996 | Little Sister (Zusje) | Robert Jan Westdijk |
| 1995 | Silences of the Palace (Saimt el Qusur) | Moufida Tlatli |
| 1994 | The Blue Exile (Mavi Sürgün) | Erden Kıral |
| 1993 | Manila Paloma Blanca | Daniele Segre |
| 1992 | Life on a String (Bian Zou Bian Chang) | Chen Kaige |
| 1991 | Farendj | Sabine Prenczina |
| 1990 | Pomegranate and Cane (Nar O Nay) | Saeed Ebrahimifar |
| 1989 | A Film with No Name (Za Sada Bez Dobrog Naslova) | Srdjan Karanovic |
| 1988 | Travelling Avant | Jean Charles Tacchella |
| 1987 | Guard Me, My Talisman (Khrani menya, moj talisman) | Roman Balayan |
| 1986 | Yesterday | Radoslaw Piwowarski |
| 1985 | Nineteen Eighty-Four | Michael Radford |
External links
- Official Festival Website (http://www.istfest.org/film)