‘Young Turkish Cinema’ explores the remarkable rise and recent development of independent filmmaking in Turkey. Filmmakers like Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Semih Kaplanoglu and Yesim Ustaoglu, whose early works have been supported by the IFFR’s Hubert Bals Fund, are successful both in Turkey and abroad. A younger generation follows in their footsteps. ‘Young Turkish Cinema’, compiled by festival programmer Ludmila Cvikova, brings together recent works by both generations of Turkish filmmakers and collaborates with Istanbul-based film magazine Altyazi to publish an investigative special issue about the thriving Turkish film scene.
Among the film selected for ‘Young Turkish Cinema’ are: THE SMALL TOWN (Kasaba) (1998), feature début by Nuri Bilge Ceylan; THE STORM (2008) by Kazim Öz, a film supported by Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund and, in world premiere, BLACK DOGS BARKING (2008) by Mehmet Bahadir Er & Maryna Gorbach.