Panel Where Do You Draw the Line: Suggestions for Transformation

13 December 2025 - How can women of all ages and backgrounds — whether experienced or new to the field, from different professions or communities — who have contributed to cinema or wish to work and continue working in the industry, see, recognize, learn from, and create with one another?

Conversation Turning Points in Jazz History

This panel, taking place on October 5 at Bağlarbaşı Cultural Center as part of the 35th Akbank Jazz Festival, will briefly revisit such revolutionary shifts in jazz history and highlight the musicians who drove these transformative periods.

Panel Turkey Children's Theatre Showcase Program

5 December 2024 - As part of its 8th edition, Atta Festival invites artists, academics, and students interested in producing high-quality children’s theatre to the “Creating a Roadmap in Children's Theatre!”

Panel Science Fiction and Reality

As we journey toward “Infinity,” is it possible that we encounter an ordinary world devoid of high technology in a dystopian world of the near future? What does it mean to be human and to establish relationships with others in a world that may arise after technological destruction?

Panel Social Transformation and Sustainability: On Seeing and Showing the Truth

Documentaries are those artistic actions that insist on the radical tone of creating the most possible states of "being in this world," "living," and "existing." They also take on the responsibility of making an ethical and political creation - sustainable again - in the witness of looks and voices.

Panel Philosophy of Happiness in Cinema

In a world dominated by digitalization, is seeking refuge in analog mediums a source of happiness, a choice to prefer a routine and modest life instead of getting swept away in the whirlpool of daily life in metropolises? If so, what are the dynamics of this happiness?

Panel Philosophy of Evil through Films

Is evil inherent in objects, people, and events, or does it only arise from their relationships? Is man inherently evil, or is the evil person, as Hegel suggests, an incomplete human? In a world where evil has become "normalized," what responsibilities fall upon the witnesses?

Panel Neuro-CinePhilosophical Approach Accompanied by Vivaldi's Four Seasons

Festival President Prof. Dr. Serdar Öztürk, during the Opening Panel, will talk about the processes of the "CinePhilosophical Approach Accompanied by Vivaldi's Four Seasons" and share information about the festival’s flow and operation.

Panel Sinemanın Hayat Bilgisi Dersleri: Vicdan

Panel Cinema's Lessons On Life: Hatred

Panel Cinema's Lessons On Life: Compromise

Panel Cinema's Lessons On Life: Mercy