Istanbul Film Festival 2024
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- DirectorKyros PapavassiliouStarsMakis PapadimitriouYiannis NiarrosMaria ApostolakeaIn a world where time changes arbitrarily, a couple's relationship is tested as their individual and shared recollections of the past, present and future change unremittingly.
- DirectorPham Ngoc LanStarsMinh-ChâuXuan An NgoHa-PhuongAfter inheriting a pygmy slow loris from her long-estranged husband, a woman clings to dwindling ties to her past while her niece prepares for her wedding and worries about the future.
- DirectorMohamed Ben AttiaStarsMajd MastouraWalid BouchhiouaSamer BisharatA man who violently breaks free from his banal environment, evading society with its principles, codes and institutions.
- DirectorOlmo SchnabelStarsDario Yazbek BernalJack IrvGerry BednobFollows the affair between the impulsive Alejandro and the college-age pet store employee Jack, exploring the underbelly of New York and a romance that sends them down a rabbit hole of vice.
- DirectorBalojiStarsMarc ZingaYves-Marina GnahouaMarcel Otete KabeyaAfter spending years in Belgium, a young Congolese man returns to his birthplace of Kinshasa to confront the intricacies of his family and culture.
- DirectorAnna BuryachkovaStarsZachary ShadrinArthur AliievAlina ChebanSet in Kyiv in the late 1990s, "Forever-Forever" is an unsettling portrait of the young and rebellious as they navigate love, explore their sexuality, and play cruel games, which never have a winner.
- DirectorElias BelkeddarStarsReda KatebBenoît MagimelMeriem AmiarOmar, a gangster on the run, tries to lie low for the rest of his life in Algiers to escape his sentence of 20 years in prison by the French authorities.
- DirectorEna SendijarevicStarsHayati AzisRenée SoutendijkFlorian MyjerTumultuous events triggered by the death of a Dutch sugar plantation owner who ends up leaving his Indian Ocean island estate to his young illegitimate son - the child of his Indonesian housemaid.
- DirectorAsli ÖzgeStarsDerya ErkenciGönül GezerFaruk ÖzgeA filmmaker daughter documents the imminent demolition of her father Faruk's apartment building in Istanbul. Faruk, who is over 90, increasingly becomes the protagonist.
- DirectorKarim AïnouzStarsAlicia VikanderEddie MarsanJude LawKatherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, is named regent while the tyrant battles abroad. When the king returns, increasingly ill and paranoid, Katherine finds herself fighting for her own survival.
- DirectorAva DuVernayStarsAunjanue Ellis-TaylorJon BernthalNiecy NashThe unspoken system that has shaped America and chronicles how lives today are defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.
- DirectorLevan AkinStarsMzia ArabuliLucas KankavaDeniz DumanliLia, a retired teacher, has promised to find her long-lost niece, Tekla. Her search takes her to Istanbul where she meets Evrim, a lawyer fighting for trans rights, and Tekla starts to feel closer than ever.
- DirectorFerzan ÖzpetekStarsKubilay AkaEmre DinlerÖzge ErdemA man who moved away from his hometown engages in deep conversations with his friends and family while toasting, eating and celebrating life.
- DirectorMaryam KeshavarzStarsLayla MohammadiNiousha NoorKamand ShafieisabetWhen a large Iranian-American family gathers, a family secret is uncovered that catapults the estranged mother and daughter into an exploration of the past, and to discover they are more alike than they know.
- DirectorLone ScherfigStarsBérénice BejoDaniel BrühlAntonio de la TorreMaría Margarita is the youngest of four siblings in a family living in a mining town in the Atacama Desert (Chile). The most special time of the week for this family is Sunday, when they all go to the movies to enjoy stories that let them escape their everyday lives by transporting them to other worlds. The girl's parents soon realise that the little girl has a very special gift: an almost uncanny ability to recount movies. The girl's extraordinary talent will spread throughout the village, changing the fortunes of her family as the country is transformed forever. With standout performances from Academy Award® nominee Bérénice Bejo, BAFTA nominee Daniel Brühl, and multiple-time Goya Award winner Antonio de la Torre, The Movie Teller is a celebration of our capacity to defy even the harshest circumstances, to find love, community, inspiration, and hope where there seems to be none. Through the stories we weave, we can elevate our lives with shared human emotion.
- DirectorMatthias GlasnerStarsLars EidingerCorinna HarfouchLilith StangenbergLissy enjoys husband Gerd's deterioration in a home. Her joy is temporary as her health rapidly declines.
- DirectorPatrick DickinsonStarsCiarán HindsThomas CoombesAoife HindsA widower from Japan travels with his estranged son to England in order to fulfill his late wife's dying wish.
- DirectorStéphane BrizéStarsGuillaume CanetAlba RohrwacherSharif AndouraMathieu lives in Paris, Alice in a small balnearic town. They have a short affair, and then each one follows their own path. To wash his melancholy, Mathieu goes to a thalasso, where by chance he finds Alice.
- DirectorDaniela GoggiStarsRodrigo de la SernaJulieta ZylberbergGermán PalaciosFollowing the overthrow of the cruel dictatorship that had supplanted the country's long-standing democracy, Julio returns to Argentina with his family. After his brother is abducted he takes the lead in negotiations with the perpetrators.
- DirectorOlivier AssayasStarsVincent MacaigneMicha LescotNine d'UrsoDuring COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, two married couples quarantine together in a country house, leading to rising tensions and revelations about their relationships.
- DirectorBruno DumontStarsLyna KhoudriAnamaria VartolomeiCamille CottinA small village of Northern France is the battleground of undercover extraterrestrial knights.
- DirectorMaryam MoghadamBehtash SanaeehaStarsLili FarhadpourEsmaeel MehrabiMohammad HeidariSeventy-year-old Mahin, solitary until now, chooses to revive her love life. A chance encounter becomes an unforgettable evening.
- DirectorIlya PovolotskyStarsMaria LukyanovaGela ChitavaDaro AkimidzeIn Russia, an introverted father and his teenage daughter live on the road in a van that contains their entire life, including the equipment for a travelling cinema: the source of their meager income.
- DirectorZar Amir EbrahimiGuy NattivStarsArienne MandiZar Amir EbrahimiJaime Ray NewmanIranian female judoka Leila and her coach Maryam, who travel to the Judo World Championship, intent on bringing home Iran's first gold medal. Midway through the competition, they receive an ultimatum from the Islamic Republic ordering Leila to fake an injury and lose. With her own and her family's freedom at stake, Leila is faced with an impossible choice: feign injury and comply with the Iranian regime as Maryam implores her to do, or defy them both and fight on, for the gold.
- DirectorHong Sang-sooStarsYunhee ChoKwon Hae-hyoIsabelle HuppertA French woman drinks makgeolli in Korea after losing her means of income, then teaches French to two Korean women.
- DirectorAndreas DresenStarsLiv Lisa FriesJohannes HegemannSina MartensIn Berlin 1942, Hilde is a member of an anti-Nazi group. She falls in love with another member, Hans. The two spend a summer together until they get caught by the Gestapo and Hilde is imprisoned, eight months pregnant.
- DirectorAlonso RuizpalaciosStarsRaúl BrionesRooney MaraAnna DíazFollows the life in the kitchen of a NYC restaurant where cultures from all over the world blend during the lunchtime rush.
- DirectorAbderrahmane SissakoStarsNina MeloHan ChangKe-Xi WuAfter saying "no" on her wedding day, Joice leaves the Ivory Coast to start a new life in Guangzhou, China.
- DirectorÉlise GirardStarsIsabelle HuppertTsuyoshi IharaAugust DiehlWhile on a book tour in Japan, Sidonie Perceval, still haunted by the ghost of her late husband, begins an affair with her mysterious Japanese publisher.
- DirectorTarsem SinghStarsPavia SidhuYugam SoodGourav SharmaA young couple desperately want to be together but they are separated due to time, distance, and societal expectations.
- DirectorErnst De GeerStarsAsta Kamma AugustHerbert NordrumAndrea EdwardsA hypnotherapist sees Vera throw off the trappings of civilized behaviour. For a event She attends with André, Vera's behaviour holds a mirror up to the faux-authenticity, virtue signalling and hypocrisy of her fellow entrepreneurs.
- DirectorJianjie LinStarsKe-Yu GuoMuran LinXilun SunA middle-class family's fate becomes intertwined with their only son's enigmatic new friend in post one-child policy China, putting unspoken secrets, unmet expectations, and untended emotions under the microscope.
- DirectorErwan Le DucStarsNahuel Pérez BiscayartCéleste BrunnquellMaud WylerEtienne, a young father, must deal with the fact that his now-teenage daughter Rosa is ready to move forward and build her own life away from him.
- DirectorMohamed KordofaniStarsEiman YousifSiran RiakNazar GomaJust before the secession of South Sudan, a married former singer from the north seeks redemption for causing the death of a southern man by hiring his oblivious wife as her maid.
- DirectorYuval AbrahamBasel AdraHamdan BallalThis film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers and the alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval.
- DirectorAsmae ElMoudirStarsMohamed El MoudirAsmae ElMoudirZahra JeddaouiA Moroccan woman's search for truth tangles with a web of lies in her family history. As a daughter and filmmaker, she fuses personal and national history as she reflects on the 1981 Bread Riots, drawing out connections to modern Morocco.
- DirectorAmanda Nell EuStarsZafreen ZairizalDeena EzralPiqaAn 11-year-old girl who is carefree until she starts to experience horrifying physical changes to her body.
- DirectorLuna CarmoonStarsTim BowieJames CooperCeara CoveneyThe story follows Maria - a teenager whose mother used to be a hoarder. Now (set in the 90s) she lives in a foster home where a previous resident Micheal inspires her to revisit her childhood memories and passions that she has repressed.
- DirectorMeryam JoobeurStarsSalha NasraouiMohamed GrayaâMalek MecherguiA Tunisian woman is caught between her maternal love and her search for the truth when her son returns home from war and unleashes a darkness throughout their village.
- DirectorBrandt AndersenStarsOmar SyJay AbdoFares Al-HelouTragedy strikes a Syrian family in Aleppo, starting a chain reaction of events involving five different families in four different countries.
- DirectorLkhagvadulam Purev-OchirStarsTergel Bold-ErdeneNomin-Erdene AriunbyambaAnu-Ujin TsermaaZe, a 17-year-old, studies hard at school to succeed in the cold, callous society of modern Mongolia. When Ze encounters Maralaa, his senses are awakened and another reality seems possible.
- DirectorAnne FontaineStarsRaphaël PersonnazDoria TillierJeanne BalibarFollows the boundary-pushing Rubinstein as she selects Maurice Ravel to compose the music for her next ballet. Ravel ends up creating his greatest success ever: Boléro.
- DirectorSally El HosainiJames Krishna FloydStarsBen HardyHannah OnslowJason PatelIt follows a queer South Asian nightclub performer living a double life, and a young, single father who works as a mechanic. When they meet, a search for identity is sparked.
- DirectorRay YeungStarsPatra AuLin-Lin LiTai-BoAngie and Pat have been together for over four decades but after Pat's unexpected death, Angie finds herself at the mercy of Pat's family as she struggles to retain her dignity and the home that both had shared for over thirty years.
- DirectorMichal EnglertMalgorzata SzumowskaStarsMalgorzata HajewskaJoanna KuligMateusz WieclawekAdam, trying to be a good husband and father in a small town in Poland. But Adam starts to feel increasingly uncomfortable in his body, one that doesn't reflect his true identity.
- DirectorZacharias MavroeidisStarsYorgos TsiantoulasAndreas LabropoulosRoubini VasilakopoulouWhile having a day-long swim at Athens' queer beach, best friends Demos and Nikitas recall the events of a recent summer in the prospect of turning them into a screenplay for Nikitas' feature debut.
- DirectorAsli ÖzarslanStarsMelia KaraJamilah BagdachAsya UtkuHazal is a 17-year-old Berliner wishing for an opportunity to escape routine. For her 18th birthday celebration with friends, she seeks fun away from daily grind. A tragic event changes everything and Hazal must run.
- DirectorAntonella SudasassiStarsSol CarballoPaulina Bernini ViquezLeonardo PerucciPleasure and desire through the memory and intimacy of three women over 65.
- DirectorSofia ExarchouStarsDimitra VlagopoulouFlomaria PapadakiAhilleas HariskosA group of performers spend an increasingly wild summer working at the Hotel Mirage.
- DirectorLillah HallaStarsAyomi DomenicaLoro BardotGrace PassôOn the eve of a volleyball championship decisive for her future as an athlete, 17-year-old Sofía discovers an unwanted pregnancy. In an attempt to interrupt it clandestinely, she ends up becoming the target of a fundamentalist group.
- DirectorDelphine DelogetStarsVirginie EfiraFélix LefebvreArieh WorthalterBarmaid Sylvie is a single mom living with her two sons, Sofiane and Jean-Jacques. One night, Sofiane is injured while being alone in the flat which results in placing him in a foster home. Sylvie is determined to bring her son back home.
- DirectorMona AchacheStarsMarion CotillardMona AchacheMarie BunelDocudrama about French writer and photographer Carole Achache. Through the power of filmmaking and the help of Marion Cotillard, director Mona Achache brings her mother back to life to retrace her journey and find out who she really was.
- DirectorMika GustafsonStarsBianca DelbravoDilvin AsaadSafira MossbergThree sisters aged 7 to 16, live alone after their mother vanishes for whole swathes of time. When the social services demand a family meeting, oldest sister Laura plans to find a stand in for their mother.
- DirectorShuchi TalatiStarsPreeti PanigrahiKani KusrutiKesav Binoy KironFollows the journey of 16 year old Mira, whose sexy, rebellious coming of age is disrupted by her young mother who never got to come of age herself.
- DirectorMatías PiñeiroStarsAna Cristina BarragánMaria Inês GonçalvesAgustina MuñozThe poet Sappho encounters the nymph Britomartis by the sea. Tales claim Sappho leapt into the ocean out of heartbreak while Britomartis fell into the water escaping a man's pursuit. Together they reflect on the bittersweet pangs of desire
- DirectorRadu JudeStarsIlinca ManolacheOvidiu PîrsanNina HossAn overworked and underpaid production assistant drives around Bucharest to shoot the casting for a workplace safety video commissioned by a multinational company.
- DirectorCarlos ReygadasStarsMarcos HernándezAnapola MushkadizBertha RuizMarcos lusts after his boss's promiscuous daughter, but after botching an extortion scheme, he becomes wracked with guilt.
- DirectorWang BingStarsXilin WangWang Xilin, China's most important modern classical composers who was the target of severe persecution, enduring beatings, imprisonment and torture. Besides having a life of suffering, he is still capable of deep and sincere compassion.
- DirectorHong Sang-sooStarsGi Ju-bongKim Min-heeA woman in 40s living at friends home answers briefly, and a man in 70s living alone end up giving longer answers, had visitor for lunch in front of their guests, coincidentally they both added hot pepper paste to their ramyun.
- DirectorNelson Carlo de Los Santos AriasStarsJhon NarváezSor María RíosJorge Puntillón GarcíaA voice that claims to be from a hippopotamus. A voice that doesn't understand the perception of time. Pepe, the first and last hippo killed in the Americas, tells his story with the overwhelming orality of these towns.
- DirectorLisandro AlonsoStarsViggo MortensenChiara MastroianniAlaina CliffordMurphy searches for his daughter after she is kidnapped by the outlaw Randall.
- DirectorGábor ReiszStarsAdonyi-Walsh GáspárIstván ZnamenákAndrás RusznákAbel is a high school student struggling to focus on his final exams, while being hopelessly in love with his best friend Janka.
- DirectorMan RayStarsKiki of MontparnasseExperimental film, white specks and shapes gyrating over a black background, a light-striped torso, a gyrating eggcrate. One of the first Dadaist films.
- DirectorVíctor EriceStarsManolo SoloJose CoronadoAna TorrentA Spanish actor disappears during the filming of a movie. Although his body is never found, the police conclude that he has suffered an accident at the edge of a cliff. Many years later, the mystery returns to the present day.
- DirectorFrançois NemetaStarsBjörkJack BlackJim CarreyIf Méliès had a son, it would be Michel Gondry. A brilliant jack-of-all-trades whose eccentric talent convinced the creative elite of international pop music to entrust him with his music videos (Björk, the Rolling Stones, Daft Punk, The White Stripes, Beck, etc.) before allowing him to chart his own course in Hollywood-without ever renouncing his rather crazy style-and to become one of the rare Oscar-winning French filmmakers (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). From hand to eye, Michel Gondry has been offering us for thirty years to seize what surrounds us to create and tell the world. A work that is a constant praise of wonder through craftsmanship: whether we approach his relationship to music and his beginnings as a videographer; the notion of magic inherent in his conception of the image; its roots in childhood and the world of dreams; the paradox of his Hollywood career; and the humanist ambition of its craftsmanship... which is also a political act. Do it yourself.
- DirectorCemil AgacikogluStarsHilmi AhiskaSevgi TemelGökhan YikilkanSet in a village in Anatolia at the foothills of the mountains, portraying the story of the resistance of a young man, Ali, against the domination of landlords and local gangs, striving to win back his wife's love and affection.
- DirectorBaran GunduzalpStarsFatih Ibrahim SönmezNilay ErdönmezCan DemirLiving in a metropolis is actually holding on to a possibility. To the possibility of things going well, meeting interesting people, discovering a new street, having a different choice, and perhaps most likely to start over again... No one would like to leave a metropolis without using all these possibilities up. For Salih and Ayse, who have lived a white-collar life in Istanbul for years, life is like a harsh song with an unknown tune... Like their colleagues living in other geographies of the world, they realized that what they thought promised a safe future is a new form of slavery. The new generation that came after them said yes to much lower salaries than them, and became the sought-after employees of the market, with conditions getting tougher day by day. While the system is throwing up experienced employees like bile, a new generation has taken their place. Still, Salih goes to a different company for a job interview every day with hope. For Ayse, the situation is a little different. She saw that she could not do the job she wanted, she started working in a call center. She's been trying to sell insurance on the phone for hours. Maybe life would have been easier if there were only two of them... But they have a son, Emre, who has never spoken, even though he is six years old. Their lives can no longer continue in a way that they could afford with the salaries they received in their old jobs. They cannot afford the rent of the house they live in, and when Emre's psychologist expense is added, they are stuck. On the one hand, they are packing and looking for a suitable house for rent, on the other hand they are looking for a job for Salih. When he again comes out empty-handed from a job interview, Salih learns that there is a new line of business called motorcycle taxi driver. A few months after he was fired, he sold his car to buy some more time. Since then, the motorcycle they call Rosinante is the family's only transportation. Salih begins the motorcycle taxi business and carries people from different layers of Istanbul on his back seat. After years, he becomes an Istanbuler with them. At the same time Ayse, on the other hand, is being transferred to the home office system. This is the last exit before being fired. She knows that they will give the most impossible customers, and as her scores drop, she will eventually be out of work. With a sudden decision, Ayse puts on Salih's motorcycle helmet, puts on his clothes and starts taxiing at nights. She succeeds at first... They registered the system with Salih's name, so Ayse has to pretend as Salih while working as a motorcycle taxi driver. She never opens the helmet so that it is not understood that she is a woman, and does not talk to passengers. She is silent consciously, like her son. For the first time, she can understand her son a little. She gets used to it gradually... The days when Ayse experience the inevitable coincide with the period when Salih gets sick and stays at home. Ayse is unemployed, Salih is sick at home, all household items have been packed to move, but a new place has not been rented. Emre is crankier than ever, as if feeling the despair of his parents... Life has turned into a nightmare where they are stuck in the boxes accumulated inside the house. While Salih is dealing with his son and household chores at home, Ayse earns the bread. Until their motorcycle is stolen... There is no Rosinante. Now they have to walk to fight the windmills. When they get off Rosinante, they realize that their armor is made of tin. The only thing they can hold on to is small odds... the possibility of finding a new job, the possibility of their son speaking, the possibility of finding Rosinante in a city of sixteen million people...
- DirectorAslihan UnaldiStarsNihan AkerNazan DiperZafer DiperWhen two sisters embark on a sailing trip on the Aegean coast with their fractured family, simmering resentments and buried secrets rise to the surface, threatening to shatter their fragile bonds with each other and their homeland.
- DirectorOzan YoleriStarsAhsen ErogluHazal SubasiÖzlem Zeynep DinselBetween the unexpected death of her closest friend in Paris and a shattered, sibylline Ottoman painting in Istanbul; a young fine art conservator tries to navigate through her mid-twenties.
- DirectorMete GümürhanStarsAlihan SahinSinan ErogluHayat Van EckWhen his father decides to move from Holland to a posh gated community in Istanbul, 14-year old Zeki befriends a group of street kids from the adjacent slum.
- DirectorKivanç SezerStarsAlican YücesoyEce YükselHalil BabürA young couple Sarp and Eda rent an Airbnb house in a distant shore of Istanbul before a long break. They find Can lying on the ground in blood and help him to recover which will change their vacation for good.
- DirectorNehir TunaStarsDoga KarakasCan Bartu AslanOzan ÇelikTwelve-year-old Ahmet is devastated when his newly religious father sends him to an Islamic dormitory, a Yurt, to learn Muslim values. Recently converted, his father sees it as the righteous path for his son, and an opportunity for self-redemption. For Ahmet, it's a nightmare. In 1997, the political polarization in Turkey makes for a charged atmosphere, with tensions between religious and secular Turks increasingly present. Devout Muslim are ostracized, and religious dormitories, "Yurt"s, are regularly raided by soldiers. Ahmet works hard to be the "perfect son" but it isn't easy. He has trouble fitting in with rough kids at the Yurt, and feels isolated in his day secular school, where he hides his new home from his classmates. His only solace is a new friend Hakan, a street-smart kid who knows how to work the Yurt system. Together they dream of being older and making their own decisions. Their friendship emboldens Ahmet, who becomes a target for the ire of Yakup Hodja, the dormitory manager. Hodja resents Ahmet's family wealth, and believes his father has bought his way into the religious leaders' good graces. His cruel treatment of Ahmet escalates until Ahmet's father is forced to take action; Hodja is transferred. Only then, Ahmet recognizes he will never meet his father's expectations. He decides to escape; together with Hakan, they steal a car and run away. What begins as the best day of their lives soon turns dangerous, and Ahmet is faced with a choice. Though neither his previous life nor the oppressive nature of the Yurt feel like home, he has to decide where he belongs.
- DirectorVuslat SaraçogluStarsHazal TüresanAlican YücesoySerdar OrçinTwo brothers and a sister; Tahsin (44), Yasin (38) and Remziye (34) have to meet in the city they were born due to the mysterious death of their father. They realize that they remember their common past differently. The tangled structure of siblinghood is experienced in all its aspects. Nothing is as any of them know.
- DirectorMati DiopStarsGildas AdannouHabib AhandessiJoséa GuedjeThe journey of 26 plundered royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey exhibited in Paris, now being returned to Benin. Diop artistically voices a new generation's demands.
- DirectorNick ReadAyse ToprakStarsMutlu KayaThe inspirational story of a Kurdish teenager, Mutlu Kaya, who comes from a remote community in South East Turkey.
- DirectorWim WendersStarsAnselm KieferDaniel KieferAnton WendersAnselm Kiefer is one of the greatest contemporary artists. His past and present diffuse the line between film and painting, thus giving a unique cinematic experience that dives deep into an artist's work and reveals his life path.
- DirectorSara SummaStarsLivia AntonelliUgo FioreClaire LoiseauPlayful auto-fictional trip from Berlin to Paris.
- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsRémy GirardSophie LorainMarie-Mai BouchardA retired archivist is annoyed and confused by a group of protestors who are angered by a mural inside the retirement home where he resides that glorifies colonialism.
- DirectorKazik RadwanskiStarsMatt JohnsonSimon ReynoldsDeragh CampbellA young professor struggles in her marriage, only to meet Matt, a man from her past who wanders onto her university campus.
- DirectorClaude BaechtoldIn 2002, three young reporters get into a car in Kabul for a journey that will change their lives forever.
- DirectorGeorge KaneStarsDavid EarlNatalie PalamidesAmy De BhrúnWhen a mysterious technological blackout plunges Ireland into anarchy and chaos, a group of failed washed up clowns are forced to traverse the country for one last shot at their dreams.