This festival offers a rare opportunity to view contemporary documentaries and short films by emerging Turkish
directors, as well as internationally produced work about subjects relevant to Turkey's cultural landscape. For the last two
years, the annual Boston Turkish Festival has transformed its screenings of contemporary documentaries into a
competition: the first Turkish Documentary and Short Film Competition in North America. All eligible films compete for
awards that include Best Documentary Film and Best Short Film, judged by a professional jury, with festival
attendees voting the Audience Award winners for Best Documentary and Best Short Film.
This program is co-presented with the 12th annual Boston Turkish Festival. For more information, please visit
www.BostonTurkishFestival.org
Total Run Time 88 minutes
Nesimi Yetik' s My Mother Learns Cinema, Ozan Adam's Zymotic-Amaurosis (Contagious Arbitrary Blindness), Mohammad Farzinnia's Gearwheel, Babak Meinaghi's Noise, Serhat Furtuna's The Game, Can Evrenol's Screws, Deniz Ceyhan Arman's Silence, Mujde Arslan's The Last Game, Murad Cobanoglu's Turkish Chat. For more more information visit www.BostonTurkishFestival.org
Documentary Program Total Run Time 90 minutes
Sevgi Ortac's Single Wall City, Devrim Erdogan's Octopus Hunter, Behiye U. Yilmaz's The Shore of Life, Vedat Atasoy's The Realm of Infinite Blue Bodrum. For more more information visit www.BostonTurkishFestival.org
Documentary Program Total Run Time 103 minutes
Nefin Dinc's I Named Her Angel, Coskun Aral's The Strength of the Steppe: Kangal, Cigdem Akbay's Hiphopistan: Representing Locality in a Global City. For more more information visit www.BostonTurkishFestival.org
Documentary and Short Program Total Run Time 119 minutes
Abdurrahman Oner's Lost, Alp Aslan Esener's Land of Broken Lives, Petra Holzer Ozguven and Ethem Ozguven's Alethea, Catherine Stryker's Turtle Beach. www.BostonTurkishFestival.org
Documentary ProgramTotal Run Time 114 minutes
Riza Baloglu's Troia is an eye-opening documentary which illuminates the emergence of the ancient city of Troia by tracing the ancient trade routes from Gallipoli to Greece, Germany, England and Russia. In Nefise Ozkal Lorentzen's I Have Two Countries, Adrian and Julian, two brothers of Turkish-Norwegian background, move to Turkey with their family for six months. How do the children adapt to Turkish culture, the Turkish school system, and how do they manage to make friends? For more more information visit www.BostonTurkishFestival.org
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