Screening of six international films as part of the !fistanbul AFM International Independent Film Festival

The Institute of Modern Media was approached by !fistanbul AFM International Independent Film Festival to screen in the last weekend of the festival this year, February 20-21, 2010, five festival films simultaneously among partner organizations across Turkey and the Middle East. The weekend marathon also ended in a webcast conference with leading thinkers, filmmakers and writers. Aiming at highlighting the new possibilities offered by digital broadcast, and new ways of experiencing connections via films. The films were all praised by the attendees and are all award-winning titles which have something to say about today's geographies, changing maps, and the different possibilities offered by new technologies. List of films: Un Prophet (Dir. Jacques Audiard, French and Arabic), Nobody Knows About Persian Cats (Dir. Bahman Ghobadi, Iranian), She A Chinese (Dir. Xiaolu Guo, Mandarin and English), The Age of Stupid (Dir. Franny Armstrong, English), Vinterland  (Dir. Hisham Zaman, Norwegian and Kurdish), and Bawke (Dir. Hisham Zaman, Norwegian and Kurdish).