15th Akbank Short Film Festival

15th Akbank Short Film Festival

Akbank Short Film Festival was held for the first time in 2004. It has developed further over the years into one of the leading arts and culture events in Istanbul with an increasingly diverse programme. The festival aims to encourage short film production, to deliver the films to audiences, to support new filmmakers, to champion short film internationally, to provide a debate platform for short film within a festival culture and to establish a festival for cinema-lovers to enjoy.

 In addition to the national and international short film competitions, the festival includes various workshops, interviews and master classes and thus acts as an experience-sharing platform between cinema professionals and festivalgoers. Akbank Short Festival, which takes place in Akbank Sanat every year for ten days, is free of charge for all the events. The festival is composed of “Festival Shorts,” “World Shorts,” “Short to Feature,” “Experiences,” “Documentary Film,” “Perspective,” “Special Screening” and “Forum” sections. Films that have competed at world’s leading film festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Venice are presented to audiences every year. The “Forum” section, which was opened for the first time in 2017, aims to support short films from the scriptwriting stage, organizes trainings for project development and a short film screenplay contest for production support.

So far the festival has featured valuable artists such as Abbas Kiarostami, Reha Erdem, Jessica Woodworth, Yeşim Ustaoğlu, Jafar Panahi, Ahmet Uluçay, Tayfun Pirselimoğlu, Coşkun Aral, Barış Pirhasan with master classes and film screenings.

Every year, with "Akbank Short Film Festival in Universities" event, the festival reaches various cities of Turkey other than Istanbul. The award winning films are screened to the students of universities in Turkey.

15th Akbank Short Film Festival

18 March - 28 March 2019

Akbank Sanat

15th Akbank Short Film Festival Selection

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11 NOV MON
2

18:00

Seminar The Story of Modern and Contemporary Art - II

Online Platform – Zoom

20:00

Seminar An Alternative View on Art and Children

Online Platform – Zoom

12 NOV TUE
2

19:00

Film The Patriotic Woman

Akbank Sanat

20:00

Seminar An Alternative View on Art and Children

Online Platform – Zoom

13 NOV WED
2

18:30

Conversation Family

Akbank Sanat

20:00

Seminar An Alternative View on Art and Children

Online Platform – Zoom

14 NOV THU
3

18:00

Seminar The Culture & Ideology of Art

Online Platform – Zoom

18:30

Seminar The Epistemology of Ignorance and What Lies Behind Indifference

Akbank Sanat

20:00

Seminar An Alternative View on Art and Children

Online Platform – Zoom

15 NOV FRI
1

20:00

Dance "Palma" Dance Performance

Akbank Sanat

16 NOV SAT
4

12:00

Kid Akbank Children’s Theatre"What Am I Going To Be?"

Akbank Sanat

12:00

Workshop Upcycling Workshops: Creative Prints with Waste Materials

Akbank Sanat

15:00

Workshop Body and Composition

Akbank Sanat

15:30

Kid Tracing Migratory Birds: Birdhouse Design Workshop (Ages 6-10)

Akbank Sanat

17 NOV SUN
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18 NOV MON
-
19 NOV TUE
1

19:00

Film The Marriage of Maria Braun

Akbank Sanat

20 NOV WED
-
21 NOV THU
-
22 NOV FRI
-
23 NOV SAT
7

12:00

Kid A City: The Journey of Lost Voices (Ages 5-9)

Akbank Sanat

13:30

Kid Istanbul in My Library: Book Nook Workshop (Ages 5-9)

Akbank Sanat

15:00

Workshop The Physical Dimension of Sound

Akbank Sanat

15:00

Theater The Experience

Akbank Sanat

16:00

Workshop Alphabet Experimental Photography Workshop (November - Group 1)

Online Platform – Zoom

17:00

Theater Fume

Akbank Sanat

19:00

Conversation Talk with Tiago Correia and Antonio Parra

Akbank Sanat

24 NOV SUN
1

16:00

Workshop Alphabet Experimental Photography Workshop (November - Group 2)

Online Platform – Zoom

25 NOV MON
-
26 NOV TUE
1

19:00

Film Yesterday Girl

Akbank Sanat

27 NOV WED
-
28 NOV THU
1

19:30

Conversation Without Leaving a Trace in Urban Memory

Akbank Sanat

29 NOV FRI
1

16:00

Workshop Alphabet Experimental Photography Workshop (November - Group 1)

Online Platform – Zoom

30 NOV SAT
5

12:00

Kid Akbank Children’s Theatre"What Am I Going To Be?"

Akbank Sanat

12:00

Workshop Alphabet Experimental Photography Workshop (November - Group 2)

Online Platform – Zoom

15:00

Workshop Playing with the Senses

Akbank Sanat

16:00

Kid Family Upcycling: Mosaic Workshop (Ages 4-8)

Akbank Sanat

17:15

Kid Family Upcycling: Sculpture Workshop (Ages 4-8)

Akbank Sanat

01 DEC SUN
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