Workshop Sculpture Workshop for Youth: A Fictional World from Clay

16 May 2025 - In this workshop, young participants will combine their imagination with clay to design an entirely new world where everyone can find a place.

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?

Seminar Ali Avni Çelebi’s Masked Ball Painting: An Allegory of Turkish Modernism

6 May 2027 - In this session of the Philosophy Seminars, we will examine Ali Avni Çelebi’s 'Masked Ball' through the theories of Jameson and Belting, and discuss the tension between aesthetic modernism and social modernization.

Conversation Postmodernism and the Collapse of Reality

21 April 2027 - In this session of the Literature Talks, we will discuss postmodernism through The Name of the Rose and One Hundred Years of Solitude, as well as the collapse of reality, intertextuality, and the transformation of the concept of truth.

Workshop Creative Reuse in Filmmaking Workshop

7 November 2026 - Organized in collaboration between EkoFilm: Sustainable Production Platform and FfilmSchool, this program will bring film teams together at Akbank Sanat to explore re-use, resource stewardship, and sustainable filmmaking practices.

Program Shorts with Akbank Sanat Ayvalık International Film Festival

Learning Program Material: Connections

March 2-4, 2026 / The learning program, which will examine the relationship and contradictions between contemporary art and ecology through the production practices of different artists each month, aims to introduce young artists to contemporary works and diverse perspectives through the concept of "material."

Learning Program Material: Improvisation

January 19 - 22, 2026 / The learning program, which will examine the relationship and contradictions between contemporary art and ecology through the production practices of different artists each month, aims to introduce young artists to contemporary works and diverse perspectives through the concept of "material."

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?

Workshop Video-Essay Workshop: Women in Cinema

1 November 2025 - In this workshop, we will bring together our political imagination with creative montage techniques, using the video-essay form as an act of criticism, resistance, and solidarity.

Conversation Loneliness

In this talk, we will trace thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that carry the traces of the past into the future through the theme of “loneliness,” combining the creative force of art with the deep analysis of psychology.

Short Film Code Red