This year, the festival commemorates legendary director Alfred Hitchcock on the 40th anniversary of his death. One of the special sections of the 39th Istanbul Film Festival, Hitchcock in Color beckons the fans and younger generations who haven’t watched the films of this influential director to the movie theatre to the silver screen experience.
Mavi Boncuk |
Organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), the 39th Istanbul Film Festival will be held from 10 to 21 April 2020. The largest, most established and most influential international film event in Turkey, the festival screens more than 150 feature films, and boasts the biggest audience in Turkey.
The Cinema Awards of the 39th Istanbul Film Festival will be presented to three revered figures of Turkish cinema, at the opening gala of the festival on Thursday, 9 April.
Festival’s Honorary Cinema Awards will be presented to musician, composer, songwriter and actress Hümeyra, a genuine and unique artist whose fan base ever expands, and to filmmaker Birsen Kaya, one of the first female directors and scriptwriters from Turkey who has worked with a variety of directors across genres during her carrier. Seher Karabol, who has always sided with labour and labourers and struggled for the improvement and international promotion of Turkish cinema, will receive the Outstanding Contribution to Cinema Award.
History of cinema is full of iconic characters and unforgettable motifs. Thousands of these characters met with cinephiles in the history of the Istanbul Film Festival and now is the time to celebrate the infamous birds of Alfred Hitchcock.
The 39th Istanbul Film Festival, commemorating the legendary director Alfred Hitchcock by screening all his films in colour, will cover the streets of Istanbul with posters featuring a dream-like incarnation of the birds of the renowned director.
The poster was designed by Istanbul-based comics writer, scriptwriter and director Cem Özüduru, who was inspired by the breathtaking influence of cinema to combine his feelings and artistic aesthetic in his work. In the poster, Hitchcock-loving exotic birds circle around a sorcerer, who simultaneously curses and blesses us. The whole scene reminds us of a dream in a sleep fallen into, after seeing a film.
[1] Cem Ozuduru (born 1987) is a Turkish comic book artist.Ozuduru has been writing and drawing professionally since his debut in the monthly comics magazine Rodeo Strip in 2005.
The story of Zombistan is set in Istanbul in the present (late 2000s) and is about a group of people who find themselves amidst a large scale zombie invasion. The story actually deals with many issues on Turkey's political agenda through characters who have diverse comments on their primal goal – to survive
Cartoons by Ozuduru appear in the pages of Altyazi, a monthly movie magazine. With texts by Murat Mihcioglu, this illustrated department of the magazine hosts an uncommon form of movie criticism, one that involves mostly humor.