Experience our wide ranging programme of the latest films from the UK, dealing with British society, culture, politics, and the wider world as seen by individual British film-makers, in the Young Films from the UK Film Festival.
This festival would not be possible without our valued partners: Osman Kavala and Anadolu Kültür, Vecdi Sayar and Association for Intercultural Communication, and the Universities and Municipalities in each city. We would like to thank them for their support and collaboration.
Are you an amateur film critic? Why not review one of the films from the festival and enter our competition.
The films will be shown in 10 Anatolian cities between 9-26 December 2006 as part of the Young Films From the UK Film Festival. In Diyarbakır, Eskişehir, Samsun, Van, Kahramanmaraş, Gaziantep, Mersin, İzmir, Kayseri and Malatya, you will also have the chance to respond to the films in the panel discussions. Ben Hopkins, the director of 37 Uses For A Dead Sheep will be the guest of the panels in Van and Gaziantep. Read the full the festival programme and the time-table.
All screenings are free and will be shown in English with Turkish subtitles.
Frank (Peter Mullan) determines to salvage his self-esteem and to tackle his demons by attempting the ultimate test of endurance - to swim the English Channel. On a Clear Day is a classic blend of comedy and high drama, an inspiring tale of triumph over adversity that will touch you and leave you wanting more...
Year of Production: 2004
Running Time: 98 mins
Director: Gaby Dellal
Principal Cast: Peter Mullan, Brenda Blethyn, Billy Boyd, Jamie Sives, Sean McGinley, Benedict Wong, Ron Cook, Jodhi May
Holed up in a heavily fortified Baghdad hotel, the pianist Samir Peter and film-maker Sean McAllister try to survive the 'peace' of post-war Iraq.Samir, once Iraq's most famous pianist, now plays in a half-empty hotel bar to contractors, mercenaries and besieged journalists. In his heyday he described himself as the 'Liberace of Baghdad' but today he sleeps in a bricked up hotel room, too afraid to cross town to his seven-bedroomed mansion.
Year of Production: 2004
Running Time: 74 mins
Director: Sean McAllister
Principal Cast: Samir Peter
This film tells the history of Britain's biggest and best-known music festival, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. The history of the festival is also a history of politics, social attitudes and fashion. A staggering range of music captures the spirit of the extraordinary world changes over the last 30 years.
Year of Production: 2005
Running Time: 135 mins
Director: Julien Temple
Principal Cast: Coldplay, Bjork, David Bowie
 Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal and Ruhel Ahmed grew up in the West Midlands town of Tipton. Shafiq's and Asif's parents were first-generation Pakistanis; Ruhel's were Bengali. In August 2001, Asif's parents arrange for him to be married in a village near Faisalabad, in the Punjab province. Asif (19) reluctantly accepts, and on 20 September flies to Pakistan to finish the preparations...
Year of Production: 2006
Running Time: 93 mins
Director: Michael Winterbottom, Mat Whitecross
Principal Cast: Rizwan Ahmed, Farhad Harun, Waqar Siddiqui, Arfan Usman, Ruhel Ahmed, Asif Iqbal, Shafiq Rasul
 Until 25 years ago, the Kirghiz tribe lived a quasi-Iron Age existence in one of the remotest places on earth. Now, having migrated an amazing five times, they live in Turkey, a tribe divided. Those over 30 pine for their nomadic history and the rugged mountains of their homeland; the young have a modern education and live in a world of pop music and internet cafés.
A feature-length mix of the ethnographic and authored documentary forms, the collaboration between distinctive director Ben Hopkins and the Kirghiz tribe makes this film a unique record of a unique people.
Year of production: 2005
Running time: 85 mins
Director: Ben Hopkins
Principal cast: The Kirghiz tribe
Please contact us for further information about the festival programme and the films. arts.info@britishcouncil.org.tr
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