Learning Program Material: Plants

September 15 - 18, 2025 / 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."

Blog A short film route from Italy to Turkey with Giulia Iannello

In our conversation with Giulia Iannello, we explore the journey of Magma International Short Film Festival, the details of its collaboration with Akbank Short Film Festival, and much more.

Blog Vuslat Saraçoğlu ile üretim yolculuğunun paradoksu

With her distinctive cinematic style and festival successes, Vuslat Saraçoğlu has emerged as one of the most talked-about directors and screenwriters of recent years. Before the 21st Akbank Short Film Festival we spoke with Vuslat Saraçoğlu about her cinematic journey, creative process, and this year’s festival.

Short Film WAShhh

Exhibition Intensions 5

We are delighted to announce that we have successfully completed the fifth edition of the “Curating Contemporary Art” Seminar Program. The Seminar Program is organized by Open Dialogue Istanbul and Akbank Sanat.

Film Neandria

28 January 2025 - Neandria follows a young woman named Suna, who lives with her mother in a village near an ancient city and trains for track and field competitions. The film offers a compelling narrative that explores the collective memory of human history and its connection to nature.

Play Reading Fume

23 November 2024, 17:00 - A play about freedom of the press and fundamental values, within a group in which professional ties are intertwined with intimate relationships of love and friendship, and in which everyone is dealing, in their own way, with a recent trauma that has affected them all.

Short Film Aqueronte

Seminar Pataphysics, Reality, and Exceptional Solutions

9 March 2024 - This seminar encompasses rich content in the context of pataphysics, reality, exceptions, and original structures.

Dance “Dreamer” Performance

7 March 2024 - DREAMER is an interdisciplinary, live performance, featuring short films. It is is an alchemical journey, a danced ritual, an ode to our inner creative live force and to nature that many in society experience a disconnect from and are hungry to come back to.

Seminar "Kula" Play: Fading Memories of the Common Past of the Sephardic Jews of Istanbul

15 March 2023 / 18:30 - Speaker: Rivka Bihar

Blog 10 entries from the Cenk Erdoğan dictionary

Guitar player/composer/arranger Cenk Erdoğan will be playing at Zorlu PSM, Turkcell Platinum Sahnesi on October 10 as part of 31st Akbank Jazz Festival