Supported by Akbank for the 10th time, the 33rd Istanbul Film Festival will take place between 5-20 April. Protecting its leading position not only with the quality and variety of the films within the programme, but also with its high number of participants, the Istanbul Film Festival will once again not only provide cinephiles with over 200 films in over 20 categories, but also with panels, workshops, and master classes with expert film makers for two full weeks.

Followers of the festival will be watching films ranging from 2013 and 2014's quality productions to unforgettable film classics, from expert directors' masterpieces to films premiering at the Sundance and Berlin festivals, and from documentaries to children's films. Besides the festivals now classic categories, the festival will also garner interest with its new categories specific to 2014. “What A Pair,” prepared by film critics Fatih Özgüven and Engin Ertan, academicians Selim Eyüboğlu and Umut Tümay Arslan, as well as the Istanbul Film Festival Director Azize Tan in celebration of  the 100th year of Turkish cinema, “Polish Experimental Animation” organised as part of the 2014 cultural programme celebrating 600 years of diplomatic relations between Turkey and Poland, and “MK2-40 Years,” in honour of the 40th year of the production company MK2 established by Marin Karmitz, are among this year’s exciting projects... One of Russian cinema's most important representatives, whose name is frequently remembered alongside Tarkovsky even though he's only made six films, Aleksey Guerman's entire filmography will be screening as part of the festival. All of the restored films from Yanaki and Milton Manaki, the Balkans' first filmmakers, will be screening at the festival as part of the 100th year of Turkish cinema. The ninth edition of the Meetings on the Bridge, the festival's industry section, which brings together Turkish film-makers and international professionals, will also be taking place.

Please find the press release here
For Meetings On The Bridge programme please click here
For 33rd Istanbul Film Festival film list please click here
For 33rd Istanbul Film Festival events please click here

To apply for the international press accreditation to the 33rd Istanbul Film Festival: http://film.iksv.org/en/press/accreditation