In this section you can find articles, interviews and conversations from the library of Altyazı Fasikül: Free Cinema, translated into English. They reflect the stories of people and places, as well as the struggles of collectives from the recent history of filmmaking in Turkey. You can also watch the short films in From Below and Looking Outside series with English subtitles.
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Smear campaign against human rights advocate Osman Kavala advertised as TV series: Metamorfoz, broadcast at Turkish Radio and Television’s digital platform tabii, has released its second episode after a long pause.
Two filmmakers from Turkey, Çiğdem Mater and Mine Özerden, have been held in Bakırköy Prison in Istanbul, for more than a year.
This video tells the story behind the poster: “A Film That Was Never Made” resulted in an 18 year prison sentence.
Filmmakers in solidarity, documentarists in the field despite censorship and attacks, destroyed movie theaters, media’s ‘charity washing’ and counter-videos… This edition of our monthly newsletter focuses on the aftermath of the earthquakes in Turkey.
Cinephiles around the globe have been deeply concerned about and reacting against the closing of…
The author gives an overview of the short documentaries in the ‘Looking Outside’ series, reflecting on the notions of inside vs. outside, remembering vs. forgetting. The shorts were commissioned by Altyazı Fasikül: Free Cinema during the first lockdown.
Free Cinema Agenda video features some of the key events that had an impact on…
Many filmmakers active in the independent cinema of Turkey today met in the courses organized…
Oktay İnce is a moving image activist, an image worker. He has been involved in…
On November 4, 2018, a group of women film professionals initiated the #SusmaBitsin (Speak up…
Dicle Anter (the son of Musa Anter, a prominent Kurdish writer who was murdered in…
Altyazı Cinema Magazine’s supplement Altyazı Fasikül: Free Cinema invited independent filmmakers in Turkey to make…
Altyazi Fasikul’s Free Cinema Agenda is an audiovisual overview of important cases of censorship,…