In English

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.

Culture in Crisis: The Case of the Cinemateca Brasileira

Cinephiles around the globe have been deeply concerned about and reacting against the closing of…

Looking Outside: The Echoing Presence of the Silenced

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 2020, Turkey

Free Cinema Agenda video features some of the key events that had an impact on…

Mesopotamia Cultural Center (MKM): The Will to Produce in One’s Native Language

Many filmmakers active in the independent cinema of Turkey today met in the courses organized…

Oktay İnce: The Images Belong to Those Who are Recorded

Oktay İnce is a moving image activist, an image worker. He has been involved in…

The Voice of #SusmaBitsin [Speak up to End]

On November 4, 2018, a group of women film professionals initiated the #SusmaBitsin (Speak up…

The Memory of Batman: Yılmaz Güney Movie Theater

Dicle Anter (the son of Musa Anter, a prominent Kurdish writer who was murdered in…

Looking Outside – Short Films from Turkey Made During the Pandemic

Altyazı Cinema Magazine’s supplement Altyazı Fasikül: Free Cinema invited independent filmmakers in Turkey to make…

Free Cinema Agenda – Turkey, 2019

 Altyazi Fasikul’s Free Cinema Agenda is an audiovisual overview of important cases of censorship,…