events

Her Gün, 18.00 - 21.00
Festival Merkezi - The Hall/ Festival Center - The Hall

Extracts from the international NOMAD video archive will be on view at the Festival Center.
Artists: Borjana Pandova & Todor Karastoyanov (BG), Hristina Ivanoska (MK), Erhan Muratoğlu (TR), Nevet Izhak (IL), Ahmet Albayrak (TR), Başak Kaptan (TR), Carlo Crovato (UK).
NOMAD is an Istanbul-based association focusing on experimental approaches in digital culture and sound-art.
Curator: Başak Şenova
http://nomad-tv.net.

Her Gün, 18.00 - 21.00
Festival Merkezi - The Hall / Festival Center - The Hall

Any evening during the festival, swing by the daily Happy Hour powered by Miller to hang out, have a few drinks, talk film, chat with the “living libraries” and enjoy!
And the biggest surprise is; Dinamo FM 103.8 DJs will be with us all happy hour long!!
15/02 Can Ayverdi ( Clean Sweep )
16/02 Arman
17/02 Barış Türker
18/02 Fuchs
19/02 Gadi
20/02 Can Ayverdi ( Clean Sweep )
21/02 Kaan Düzarat
22/02 Fattish
23/02 Dr. Rex
24/02 Tutan

Her Gün,
Festival Merkezi - The Hall

An inspired film often grows out of a chance, indelible image that insists on being seen. In collaboration with Gallery x-ist, !f istanbul has asked artists and graphic designers to put those images to paper and create posters for imaginary films. The exhibition will run for 10 days at the Festival Center.

Her Gün, 15.00 - 21.00
Her yer / Everywhere

!f Istanbul sets the city in motion. In keeping with our collective spirit, we invite anyone with a camera to take part in the !f Istanbul documentary, which will be compiled from footage shot by festival-goers throughout the festival. Feel free to stop by the Macport station each day between 3 PM – 9 PM at the Festival Center in The Hall, and upload your footage. The resulting documentary will be screened during !f’09.

February 16 Saturday, 20.00
2. Salon

L’annee derniere a Marienbad (Last year at Marienbad), is a French film written by Alain Robbe Grillet and directed by Alain Resnais. Produced in 1961, Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoeff share the leading roles. The most important characteristic of the film is “the narrator”. The performance is a project of “the story teller” as in the drama and inspired by the film itself. Approximately 30 minutes long.
Project Design: Murat Daltaban
Cast: Melike Güner, Ömer Sarıgedik

February 17 Sunday, 15.00
2. Salon

Say Stop to Racism and Nationalism is a new political activist group. The Global Action Group was founded in 2005 against the global warming threat as a result of the globally organized meetings. The Global Peace and Justice Coalition (BAK) in 2003 was founded in Turkey, with the signing of a text signed all over the world by intellectuals like Tarık Ali and Howard Zinn. In this workshop organized by the three groups, “The Person Who Knows Everything” will answer any questions about climate change, war, nationalism and racism…

February 18 Monday, 15.00
2. Salon

Dükkan-ül Hayal is a joint venture of a group of enthusiastic, serious and creative young artists. It’s the first and only special effects studio that specializes in prosthetic make-up, animatronics and character design in Turkey. When Superman flew, they were amazed; they fell in love with the Lord of Darkness, were awed by Salieri’s rapid aging; laughed hard at Evil Dead, and Videodrome and Jacob’s Ladder blew their minds. And on top of that here come Hellboy, Black Sheep and Planet Terror... Are you ready to be surprised?

February 18 Monday, 18.00 - 21.00
Festival Merkezi - The Hall/ Festival Center - The Hall

!f introduces a brand new way of sharing and learning with Living Libray, which allows audiences to “check out” a person with expertise/knowledge or just life experience in a given area, much like they might check a book out of a library. Any and all questions allowed! All we ask is that you bring your curiosity with you.
Theme: Art of Living
Participants:
Vajracaksu (The Western Buddhist Order)
David Cornwell (Cihangir Yoga)
Zeynep Aksoy (Cihangir Yoga)
Mehmet Zararsizoglu (Bert Hellinger Institute, Turkey)

February 19 Tuesday, 18.00 - 21.00
Festival Merkezi - The Hall / Festival Center - The Hall

!f introduces a brand new way of sharing and learning with Living Libray, which allows audiences to “check out” a person with expertise/knowledge or just life experience in a given area, much like they might check a book out of a library.Any and all questions allowed! All we ask is that you bring your curiosity with you.
Theme:The Planet, The People
Participants:
Ömer Madra (Acik Radyo)
Dr. Christophe Fournier, (President MSF Switzerland)
Dalita Çetinoğlu (Field Projects Coordinator MSF Switzerland)
Frank Doerner (Program Responsible MSF Switzerland)

February 19 Tuesday, 15.00
2. Salon

A tribute to fantastic sinema guru Metin Demirhan who recently passed away. A screening of a documentary about him will be followed by clips and rarities from his cult film archives. Film critics, leading special effect artists, female prisoners, killer robots, lesbian vampires -- everybody will be there!

February 19 Tuesday, 18.00
2. Salon

Participtants : Dr. Christophe Fournier, (President MSF International Office), Dalita Çetinoğlu (Field Projects Coordinator MSF Switzerland), Dr. Ahmet Kaya (Family Doctor), Dr. Ercan Türeci (Anesthetist), Frank Doerner (Program Responsible MSF Switzerland)
*Ingilizce ve Türkçe / In English and Turkish

In connection with the festival screening of the film Invisibles, representatives from Doctors Without Borders discuss their work. They will present their tenth annual “Top Ten List of Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories” for 2007 which focuses on people struggling to survive violence, forced displacement, and disease.

February 19 Tuesday, 20.00
2. Salon

Meet a group of dedicated amateur film buffs who research pre-1970 films and hold screenings on Tuesday nights, strictly at 8 PM, in someone’s living room. This week’s guests are Sergei Paradjanov, a cinematic magician, and Artavazd Peleshian, who blurs the boundary between fiction and documentary. The group will show Paradjanov’s masterpiece Sayat Nova/Color of the Pomegranate. Alternative cinema fans will enjoy!

February 19 Tuesday, 21.00
Ana Salon - Main Room

Compiled by: Fatma Çolakoğlu, Eytan İpeker
Visual Adventures is a special screening devoted to Turkish Experimental Films. In this selection of film/video works, emerging filmmakers explore a variety of topics internal and bodily frustration to human memory, society to urban architecture. Based on the fusion of image and sound, these films speak of familiar emotions and subjects, in unexpected ways.

February 20 Wednesday, 18.00 - 21.00
Festival Merkezi - The Hall / Festival Center - The Hall

!f introduces a brand new way of sharing and learning with Living Libray, which allows audiences to “check out” a person with expertise/knowledge or just life experience in a given area, much like they might check a book out of a library.Any and all questions allowed! All we ask is that you bring your curiosity with you.
Theme: Life in Sound
Participants:
Oğuz Kaplangi (Elec-Trip manager and Zi Punt member)
Çiğdem Alkang Kaplangi a.k.a. Chi K. (Elec-Trip marketing manager and Zi Punt member)
Orange (Zi Punt member)
Bengi Ünsal (Doublemoon Records Manager)
Kaan Sezyum (Columnist, Musician)
Mabbas (Dinamo FM)
Tan Tunçağ (Portecho)

February 21 Thursday, 18.00 - 21.00
Festival Merkezi - The Hall / Festival Center - The Hall

!f introduces a brand new way of sharing and learning with Living Libray, which allows audiences to “check out” a person with expertise/knowledge or just life experience in a given area, much like they might check a book out of a library.Any and all questions allowed! All we ask is that you bring your curiosity with you.
Theme:Fantastic Horror & Shorts
Participants:
Emir Özer (Sfx Expert)
Yeşim Tabak (Film Critic)
Ilker Canikligil (Director)
Tan Tolga Demirci Director)
Altyazi Monthly Film Magazine team

February 21 Thursday, 16.00
Ana Salon - Main Room

Re-Potemkin is one of the very first examples of using crowdsourcing, copyleft and free/open source methods for film production. For the project Re_Potemkin, 105 Basic Design course students at Yıldız Technical University’s Art & Design department "re-produced" Sergei Eistenstein's classic Battleship Potemkin in 23 groups. Habib Bolat and .-_-. prepared Potemkin Divided and Re_Potemkin vs Potemkin by re-editing the open sources of the project.
http://www.sts.yildiz.edu.tr/re_potemkin

February 21 Thursday, 18.00
2. Salon

The monthly film magazine Altyazı, brings one of the magazine’s best-loved sections “the Roundtable Discussion” to !f Istanbul. Their goal is simple: Altyazı critics gather around a table, focus on and and explore a festival film that is begging to be discussed. Anybody interested in exploring cinema is welcome.
-The film up for discussion will be No Country For Old Men.

February 22 Friday, 18.00 - 21.00
Festival Merkezi

!f introduces a brand new way of sharing and learning with Living Libray, which allows audiences to “check out” a person with expertise/knowledge or just life experience in a given area, much like they might check a book out of a library.Any and all questions allowed! All we ask is that you bring your curiosity with you.
Theme: Rainbow
Participants:
Aykut Atasay (LGBT Activist, Documentary Director)
Belgin Çelik (LGBT Activist)
LAMBDA Istanbul Activists

February 23 Saturday, 18.00 - 21.00
Festival Merkezi

!f introduces a brand new way of sharing and learning with Living Libray, which allows audiences to “check out” a person with expertise/knowledge or just life experience in a given area, much like they might check a book out of a library.Any and all questions allowed! All we ask is that you bring your curiosity with you.
Theme: !f Inspired
Participants: !f Inspired Directors

February 24 Sunday, 15.00
Ana Salon - Main Room

This year !f Istanbul launches !f Inspired, a new international competition bringing together the world’s most inspiring young directors. The competition is a great excuse for us to gather these youthful, exciting new talents in Istanbul. Come and meet the directors, listen to their filmmaking experiences and better understand how they made their filmmaking choices.
*In English