Ankara Cinema Association

The Ankara Cinema Association was founded in 1998 by a group of film enthusiasts who were already running the European Film Festival. Alongside the Festival on Wheels, a modern-day cinema troupe hosted every year in four-six cities, the Association has organized film weeks presenting different national cinemas. In the process, audiences in Ankara a... nd a number of other cities have been introduced to the films of Finland, France, Britain, Israel, Iran, South Korea, Egypt, Greece and Canada. At the same time, the Ankara Cinema Association gives great importance to Turkish cinema. In 2003, following a poll of 324 film professionals, the Association selected the Ten Best Turkish Films of all time and, with the support of the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, KODAK and Fono Film Studio, created new English subtitled prints of the films. The Ten Best Turkish Films made their world premiere in July 2004 at the 39th Karlovy Vary Film Festival. For all that, the Ankara Cinema Association sees more to cinema than simply screening films and, as a mark of this, has published several books, largely in tribute to prominent figures of Turkish Cinema. The titles include: 'Oyuncu Tuncel Kurtiz' ('Tuncel Kurtiz, the Actor'), 'Türk Sinemasi'nda Sansür' ('Censorship in Turkish Cinema'), 'Adi Atif Yilmaz' ('His Name is Atif Yilmaz'), 'Yönetmen Ömer Kavur' ('The Director Ömer Kavur'), 'Yildiz: Hülya Koyigit' ('A Star of the Screen: Hülya Koyigit'), 'Metin Erksan Sinemasini Okumayi Denemek' ('An Attempt to Analyse the Cinema of Metin Erksan'), 'Kahkaha ve Hüzün: Sadri Alisik' ('Laughter and Melancholy: Sadri Alisik'), 'Kader: Zeki Demirkubuz' ('Destiny: Zeki Demirkubuz'), 'Aktör Dedigin Nedir Ki: Münir Özkul Kitabi' ('What's An Actor Anyway: the Book of Münir Özkul'), 'Sadeligin Derinliginde Bir Usta: Lütfi Akad' ('A Master of Simplicity: Lütfi Akad') and 'Özgürlüklerden Kayiplara ve Sonrasi' ('From Freedom to Loss and Thereafter'). At the same time, the Association has also involved itself in the filmmaking process, firstly ...Read More