16th Akbank Short Film Festival

Blog 5 Short Animations From 5 Cinema Giant

Let’s have a look at the less known shorts from producers, writers and directors of blockbuster animations, which have left their mark on the animation world.

Blog A Salient Israeli Director: Elite Zexer

15th Akbank Short Film Festival’s international competition jury and the guest of festival’s Experiences section, Elite Zexer is one of Israel’s important woman directors.

Blog Latin American Breeze in This Year's Special Screening

Akbank Short Film Festival’s special screenings section will host Latin American films this year. Here

Blog A Young Talent At Master Directors’ Films: Hazar Ergüçlü

Hazar Ergüçlü will be with us this year for the conversation event “About Acting”, to share her experiences.

Blog Ercan Kesal, A Versatile Filmmaker

15. Akbank Kısa Film Festivali’nin Ulusal Yarışma bölümü jürilerinden Ercan Kesal, festivalin ilk gününde “Senaryo Yazarken” başlıklı söyleşisinde senaryo yazımına dair deneyimleri ve genç senaryo yazarlarına tavsiyeleriyle bizlerle olacak.

Blog Short To Feature: Mehmet Can Mertoğlu

Talented young writer-director Mehmet Can Mertoğlu is the guest of 15th Akbank Short Film Festival’s ‘Short to Feature’ section.

Blog 10 Reasons Not To Miss Out On 15th Akbank Short Film Festival

Akbank Short Film Festival is bringing together shorts from all over the world for its 15th year.

Blog 15 Years of Akbank Short Film Festival

We sat down with the festival director Selim Evci to talk about the festival’s journey, changes it went through since its beginning, its evolving international structure as well as his thoughts on what have been going on in the short film field over the course of 15 years.

Blog 10 Award Winning Shorts From Oscar History

Here is a small selection of Oscar-winning “live-action” shorts from the days of one vs. two roll categories till today.

Blog Composing music for emotional perception: Murat Evgin

Creating music for series and films for a long time, Murat Eving will share his experiences starting with “Sahra” series and extending to NETFLIX America at his talk, Music and Visuality, on 28 March at Akbank Sanat. Before the session, Evgin answered some of our questions.

Blog 56 Shorts Films from 65 Countries A World of Shorts in the Perspective Section!

Featuring a total of 56 funny, sad, tense, fun, unique, striking, and inspiring short films from various geographies all across the world, Perspective section of 14th Akbank Short Film Festival brings together some of the newest films that have toured important festivals, garnering praise and awards.

Blog Entrusted with the Visuals of Masters FEZA ÇALDIRAN

One of recent Turkish cinema’s most talented cinematographers, Feza Çaldıran will be a festival guest not only with the screenings of Onur Saylak’s films Orman (The Jungle) and Daha (More), both featured in the festival program, but he will also be participating in a discussion on cinematography within the scope of the festival.