After the last year’s highly successful 22nd festival, Ankara Film Festival is now getting ready to bring the most exciting films to the audience between 15th to 22nd March this year.                                       With the support of the Turkish Ministry of Culture, the festival is organized by G...

CALL FOR ENTRIES 23RD ANKARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 15-25 MARCH 2012 The 23rd Ankara International Film Festival, which is scheduled to take place from March 15-25 March 2012 in Ankara inviting filmmakers from around the world to submit new documentary and short films. Online submissions are available from http://www.filmfestankara.org.tr/en/submission/step1 Deadline for submission is January 09, 2012. For further information:  Kıvanç Yalçıner  Program Coordinator...

During the Karlovy Vary film festival, just completed, Dr. Ahmet Boyacioglu, founder of "The European Festival on Wheels" in Turkey, announced that this year the festival will for the first time be extended beyond the borders of Turkey itself. The home base of the festival is Ankara and regular stops along the way usually include Bursa, Izmir and other inland cities. This year the festival will open in Ankara then move all the way across the isthmus to Kars in extreme eastern Turkey near the bo...