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A new section added to this year's Akbank Short Film Festival:
"EXPERIENCES"

In addition to last year's sections; "Festival Shorts", "From Short to Long", "Non-Competition Category" 'International Films', 'Special Preview", "Animation shorts" and "Documentaries", a new section called "Experiences" will be added to this year's festival program.

In the section "Experiences", Akbank Art Center will host a leading guest from the field of short film as well as his/her works. "Patrice Carré" will be the first guest of the section "Experinces". Patrice Carré, with his broad experience in film sector, is responsible for short film acquisitions in CinéCinéma channel owned by Canal + in France, in which, he also presents a TV program regarding short films. "Experiences" will host the short film called "La femme qui a vu l'ours" directed by Patrice Carré as well as a colloquy "Methods and Criteria for Making Short Film Accessible" where Carré will talk about his experiences in short film.

"International Films" section of the festival will host award-winning films from the world's most prestigious film festivals such as Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival and Cannes, Locarno, Rotterdam, Montpellier, Sundance Film Festivals. A selection of short films from 17 countries- Turkey, Italy, Germany, Holland, Greece, Poland, Australia, England, Morocco, Ireland, Singapore, Austria, France, Iran, Iceland, Ukraine and Spain- will be screened during the festival.

"From Short to Long" Hosts Barış Pirhasan

Barış Pirhasan who started his career in cinema with short films will share his full-length film for the first time in the festival. In addition to his short films "The Hitch", "Things of No Importance" and "Gül and Adem" and his first full-length film called "Küçük Balıklar Üzerine Bir Masal (A Tale upon Little Fishes)" will be screened during the festival. .

This year, "Documentaries" will host Hasan Özgen's films such as "Ateşin Göçü (Migration of the Fire)" , "Ve Taşlar Tanıktır (and the Stones Witnessed)" , "Tarihin Kilidi: Çanakkale (Çanakkale: The Lock of History)" and "Gelenler, Gidenler ve Kalanlar (Comers, Leaver and Remainders)".

The section "Animation shorts" features a selection of award-winning animation short films from England, Spain, Holland, Ireland, Germany, Australia, Poland and Turkey.

The colloquies of the festival aim to bring together cinema lovers and the leading names of cinema as well as give a chance to the audiences to put cinematic theories into practice. The workshop activities to be held on the 3rd floor of Akbank Art Center offer a colorful atmosphere during the festival.

The festival jury is composed of three different categories:

Competition category -"Festival Shorts"- will be chosen by the jury of film writer Emine Yıldırım, producer Nadir Öperli and Akbank Short Film Festival's coordinator and director Selim Evci.

"The Best Dramatic Short Film" will be chosen by the of film writer Yeşim Tabak, director Özcan Alper, actress Özgü Namal, Sabancı University Associate Professor Hasan Bülent Kahraman and Akbank Art Center's Director Derya Bigalı.

"The Best Documentary Film" will be chosen by Marmara University Fine Arts Faculty Director Bülent Vardar, directors Savaş Güvezne and Mahmut Fazıl Coşkun, and documentary photographers Altan Bal and Akbank Art Center Director Derya Bigalı.

Following the evaluation process, both the Best Dramatic Film and Best Documentary Film will be awarded with 7,000 Turkish Liras.

Akbank 6th Short Film Festival will be held between March 1st - March 11th with leading guests from the film sector, 98 films from 24 different countries, various colloquies and workshop activities.

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