Chicago Turkish Film Festival

18/04/2019

Join us for the next Turkish film series! “New and Newer Tales” at the Gene Siskel Theatre, running May 4-June 4. Share this with your friends and see you there!

22/12/2018

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As many of you already know, unfortunately we lost Zafer yesterday, December 20, 2018. Our hearts are broken by this sudden loss. Zafer was a great and humble man who has worked with many of us throughout the years. He will always provide guidance and support to his family and friends. He was gre...

13/02/2015

We look forward to this film!

New movie “Famine” portrays the story of how the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire sent aid to the suffering Irish.

04/01/2015

Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Award winning film, Winter Sleep (Palme D'Or award at Cannes 2014) is playing at Music Box Theatre in Chicago this week! Don't miss the masterpiece of this world renowned director.

http://www.musicboxtheatre.com/features/winter-sleep

Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival!

10/11/2014

18/10/2014

http://www.todayszaman.com/arts-culture_actress-tuba-buyukustun-lands-turkey-its-first-international-emmy-nod_361686.html

Turkish screen actress Tuba Büyüküstün was among nominees on »»

21/09/2014

Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Winter Sleep, which has won the Palme D'Or at this year's Cannes Festival, is showing at AMC Theaters as a part of the Chicago International Film Festival! Don't miss it! http://www.chicagofilmfestival.com/festival/2014-schedule/film/?id=143

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26/05/2014

Congratulations to Nuri Bilge Ceylan for winning the Palme D'or Award at Cannes! We are proud!

For more than a decade, the Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan has been reliably bringing a movie to the Cannes Film Festival every time he had a new one, starting with the odd-couple class drama “Distant” in 2002 and continuing with new works “Climates,” “Three Monkeys…

06/01/2014

Thank you for making the Second Annual Turkish Film Festival a success! See you in 2014!

19/09/2013

This weekend we are showing acclaimed Turkish director Zeki Demirkubuz's Yeralti (Inside), based on Dostoevsky's 'Notes from the Underground'. A must see film!! Friday (9/20) at 8:15 pm and Saturday (9/21) at 5:15 pm at the Gene Siskel!!

From September 6 through 28, the Gene Siskel Film Center, in partnership with the Chicago Turkish Film Committee, presents The Faces of Recent Turkish Cinema, a series of four films sampling recent trends in one of the world’s most vital national cinemas.

16/08/2013