BIFED 2024

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Main Competition

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14 countries – 1 from Türkiye
Naci Güçhan Student Film Competition

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7 countries – 1 from Türkiye
Panorama

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10 countries – 5 from Türkiye
Special Screenings

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4 countries, 5 from Türkiye
Submitted Films:Approximately 500 films from over 100 countries

Approximately 48% of the selected films are by female directors. The films were shown with English and Turkish subtitles.

Countries Represented at the Festival:

Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America.

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Community Center

150 seats (16 screenings – 2400 viewers)

Salhane

75 seats (22 screenings – 1650 viewers)

Opening and closing ceremonies and screenings of the winners: 525 viewers

Awards

BIFED 2024 Winners

Fethi Kayaalp Grand Award: (1.500€)

Twice Colonized

Lin Alluna, Denmark – Canada

Madame Melpo Award: (1.250€)

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

Johan Grimonprez, Belgium – France – Netherlands

Jury Special Mention Award:

Water for Life

Will Parrinello, USA

Naci Güçhan Student Award: (1.000€)

Tale of the Three Flames

Juliette Menthonnex, Portugal – Switzezland – Hungary – Belgium

İdil Schneider-Bulut Award: Music and Sound Design:(1000€)

I’m the River, the River is me

Petr Lom, Netherlands – Norway – New Zealand

Festival Selections

Main Competition

I Am The River, The River Is Me, Petr Lom, NL/N/NZ, 2024, 88’

Rejeito, Pedro de Filippis, BR, 2024, 75’

Twice Colonized, Lin Alluna, DK/CA, 2023, 92’

Been There, Corina Schwingruber Ilić, CH, 2023, 9’

Water for Life, Will Parrinello, USA, 2023, 91’

Nocturnes, Anirban Dutta & Anupama Srinivasan, IN/USA, 2024, 83’

Vista Mare, Julia Gutweniger, Florian Kofler, IT/AT, 2023, 80‘

Deep Rising, Matthieu Rytz, USA, 2022, 93’

Soundtrack To A Coup d’Etat, Johan Grimonprez, BE/FR/NL, 2024, 150’

Razing Liberty Square, Katja Esson, USA, 2023, 86’

Wine Colored Sea, Nefin Dinç, TR, 2024, 43’

Naci Güçhan Student Competition

The Closing of a Refinery, Vasco Monteiro, PT, 2023, 16’

Tale of the Three Flames, Juliette Menthonnex, PT/HU/BE, 2023, 21’

The Boy Who Lives By The Sea, Shwe Yee Oo, MM, 2024, 22’

Oli Kâhuli, Muhammad Ali Ijaz, USA, 2023, 14‘

Fading Away, Rukiyye Bayram / Zeynep Keskin, TR / 18′ / 2024

Cyprus Mines Corporation, Sadık Tevfik Kayrakçı, Melisa Santürk, NCY / 24′ / 2023

Panorama

The Pickers, Elke Sasse, DE/PT/GR, 2024, 80’

Until the End of the World, Francesco De Augustinis, IT, 2024, 58’

Blix not Bombs, Greta Stocklassa, CZ/DE/SE, 2023, 85’

Down To The Last Drop, Harry Putz, AT, 2023, 32’

Pouring Water on Troubled Oil, Nariman Massoum, UK, 2023, 26’

Send Kelp! Blake McWilliam, CA, 2024, 89’

Valley Pride, Lukas Marxt, AT/DE, 2023, 15’

Anthropocene, Mehmet Gürü Avcu, TR,  2023, 5’

Shrinkage: Wildfires and Nomads, Nazım Güveloğlu, TR, 2024, 34’

Harvest of Light, Esin Özalp Öztürk, TR, 52’

Nomad, Selim Alan, TR, 2023, 47′

36, Rezan Mir Uğurlu, TR, 2023, 10′

Special Screenings

Radio My Love, Nazan Haydari, Özden Cankaya, Cem Hakverdi, TR, 2024, 65′

Vineyard, Mustafa Dermanlı, TR, 2023, 66′

The Fever, Katharina Weingartner, AT/DE/CH, 2019, 99′

Hatay: 5-15 February 2024, İmre Azen, TR, 2024, 90’

Sanatorium, Alaattin Timur, Adnan Payaslı, TR, 2023, 32’

Singing in Dark Times, Ethem Özgüven, TR, 2024, 42’

Jury

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Eleonora Isunza
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Katharina Weingartner
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Mafalda Ade Winter
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Rûken Tekeş
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Simon Al Habre

Naci Güçhan Student Award

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Mattia de Virgiliis
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Sonay Ban

Music and Sound Award

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Alper Maral
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Bruno Schneider
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Can Azbazdar
Pre-selection Team

Aksel Anıl

Altay Erlik

Beyza Aksoy

Dominique Peftitseli

Egecan Çitim

Esengül Kolcuoğlu

Irene Jadraque

Kyriakos Peftitseli

Pedro García Santos

Petra Holzer

Süleyman Evran

Award & Totebag Design

Festival Award:
Ethem Özgüven – Seda Portakal
Festival Totebag:
Cihan Özorhan

Festival Team

Festival President: Yahya Göztepe
Festival Coordinator: Ethem Özgüven
Festival Director: Petra Holzer
Assistant Director: Süleyman Evran
Event Coordinator: Selen Şentürk, Mayra Çağlayan
Translation: İpek Yardımcı, Merve Atansay, Sabah Deniz Gülensoy, Şevval Dolanbay
Press: Beyza Aksoy, Selin Bozkurt
Web Design: Egecan Çitim
Social Media: Aişe Özaytürk, Melisa Uğur, Meryem Amine Şanlıer
Graphic Design: Ece Kurtboğan Kıray, Cihan Özorhan
Press Advisor: Mustafa Dermanlı
Press Relations: Beyza Aksoy, Selin Bozkurt, Nigâr Mat
Finance and Resource Development: Esma Akın
Film Programming: Petra Holzer
Technical Coordinator: Levent Menekay
Office Manager: Beyza Aksoy, Egecan Çitim, Süleyman Evran
Social Media: Aişe Özaytürk, Ece Dikmenli, Meryem Amine Şanlıer
Social Media Graphic Design: Cihan Özorhan
Catalog Editing: Seda Portakal
Pre-Jury: Aksel Anıl, Altay Erlik, Beyza Aksoy, Dominique Peftitseli, Egecan Çitim, Esengül Kolcuoğlu, Irene Jadraque, Kyriakos Peftitseli, Pedro García Santos, Petra Holzer, Süleyman Evran
Highlights: Ethem Özgüven
Event and Accommodation Manager: Selen Şentürk, Hande Kırıcı, Umut Can Dalgıç
Jury Assistant: Selen Şentürk, Nigâr Mat, Talya Özgüven
Translation and Editing: Aişe Özaytürk, Hümeyra Sare Şanlıer, Janset Özdemir, Merve Atansay, Meryem Amine Şanlıer, Sabah Deniz Gülensoy, Şevval Dolanbay
Ceremony Hosts: Fulya Yazgan, Nigâr Mat
Video and Photography: Adil Çetinkaya, Aksel Anıl, Yahya Sefa Ekinci
Hall Staff: Derin Okur, Hümeyra Sare Şanlıer, Nurkan Başer, Selenay Yıldırım
Award Design: Ethem Özgüven, Seda Portakal
Festival Bag Design: Cihan Özorhan, Ece Kurtboğan

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All Year Events & Screenings

Bandırma Ecological Film Days (FestKoop) / 14-17 Nov. 2023

  • Light of the Night
  • Sugar Blues
  • Spears from All Sides
  • Up Down & Sideways
  • The Land
  • In the Shadows of the Apartments
  • Sigh
  • While Paradise Is Destroyed
  • The Messenger

Postane

  • The Waiting & Aralkum / 6 Dec. 2023
  • Breaking Social / 20 Dec. 2023

Sinematek / 27 Jan. 2024

  • Mancorna
  • Formaldehyde
  • Forgotten Nuclear Victims
  • Aralkum
  • The Waiting
  • X Trillion
  • Breaking Social

Darağac Kollektif – Darağaç Film Festivali / 14-17 March 2024

  • The Waiting
  • Grief
  • Total Disaster
  • Wongar

Postane – Collective film reading workshop /Lalehan Öcal

  • To Pick A Flower – 17 Jan. 2024
  • Dusk Chorus – 21 Feb. 2024
  • Nothing but the Sun – 20 March 2024
  • 2,0 Miligramm Gold – Apr. 2024
  • Collette & Justin – 4 June 2024

212 Photography İstanbul / 10-11 Oct. Salt Beyoğlu

  • Invaders
  • Ecocide
  • Stare into the Light My Pretties

Datça – Can Yücel Festival / 23-25 May 2024

  • The Messenger
  • Singing in Dark Times

Lüleburgaz / 5 June 2024

  • Breathless
  • Mountain of the Water Strandja

Gümüşlük Int. Music Festival 2024 / Jul. – Aug.

  • Singing in Dark Times

Odunpazarı Modern Art Museum 2024 / Oct.-Nov.

  • Breaking Social
  • The Waiting
  • Delikado
  • Long Distance Swimmer: Sara Mardini
  • The Forgotten Nuclear Victims
  • X Trilyon
  • A World to Shape
  • Matter out of Place

BIFED Lemnos / 20-24 June 2024

  • Breaking Social
  • The Waiting
  • Delikado
  • Singing in Dark Times
  • When Tomatoes met Wagner
  • In the Shadows of the Apartments

BIFED Gökçeada / 18-21 Sep.

  • Aether
  • Barolo Boys
  • The Waiting
  • When Tomatoes met Wagner
  • All Inclusive
  • Spears from All Sides
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