Festival Brunch

To start the day’s programming, we will gather at SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA for brunch and a morning of knowledge sharing with our AVAZYA Film Professionals Network. An opportunity to meet the directors, producers and actors of this year’s AKE DIKHEA? films, as well as other film and cultural workers for discussion and exchange of ideas and experiences.

Professor Dr. Ömer Alkin will open the brunch with a talk on the topic “What the Gaze Overlooks: Post-Migrant Cinema between Diversity and Exclusion”: The talk will explore what "postmigrant" actually means, and what "postmigrant cinema" could signify. He will also explore how engagement in the film field can also be understood as a trilemma of inclusion – visibility, interpretive authority, and critique – which often come into conflict with one another.

Discussion and communing over brunch will follow!