2019 Edition

About

Hello to all film lovers, students and academics from İzmir, our beautiful city on the western edge of Turkey in the Aegean Sea. Hello to shapers, transformers, builders and disruptors of the future of cinema.

Since 2014, we have been working hard to bring you a student film festival that can act as a weeklong opportunity for filmmakers to meet each other, especially the ones that you normally wouldn’t find a chance to get to know: film students from all around the world coming together so that they can show their creations, share ideas and partake in. Our passion is, first and foremost, cinema. Not a static, homogeneous, one-language-speaking but a diverse, inclusive and innovative cinema.

Festivals’ internationality does not only come from the competitors, but also with guest schools that the festival hosts each year as it did in the past with Lodz Film School from Poland, ESTC from Portugal, La Femis from France, HFF Munich from Germany and other prestigious schools around the world. This lets all attendees of the Festival to connect with each other, during events and masterclasses given by professionals from the fıeld and from academia. The dream is to provide students a welcoming, horizon opening, enriching festival: full of conversations, meetings and new ideas arising from encounters of people from different countries, different languages and cultural backgrounds.

Join us in Yaşar University where Contact International Student Film Festival is realized every year. With the colloboration of Yaşar University, let’s share our love of cinema and have a chat, dream up a new film, make new friends, make contact.

Hope to see you soon!

Credits

Organizer

Institutional Partner

Special Screening

Sponsors






Team

Festival Director
Nazlı Bayram

Festival Coordinator
Ürün Yıldıran Önk

PR & Ceremony Coordinator
Ebru Gökaliler
Video & Photography Coordinator
Dilek Kaya
Visual Identity & Design Coordinator
Daniele Savasta
Editor
Baran Akkuş
Web Management
Mert Seven
Catalogue Design Junior
Çakıl Ece Çakmakçı
Teaser
Güven Zararsız
Special Photography
Güven Selçuk
Social Media
Simge Uğurluer
Ceremeony Presentation
Turgut Onarir
Kutay Altunkaynak
Technical Advisor
Cenk Sönmez
Screening & Technical Coordinator
Burcu Dabak
Hospitality, Events, Production
Öykü Yenen

Program

Program

Monday 21 Tuesday 22 Wednesday 23 Thursday 24 Friday 25
10.30-11.30 COMPETITION
Films competition A
SEMINAR
Eva Steegmayer
Strategies for submitting your film to festivals
MASTERCLASS
Thomas Lauterbach
Proximity and distance: from interview to conversation.
COMPETITION
Films competition A
Q&A Session
SEMINAR
Gül Dönmez
The shoot is over. Is it really time to take a break?
11.45-12.45 SCREENING
Films selection O
SCREENING
VSMU University
SCREENING
Films competition B
Q&A Session
SEMINAR
Bora Egemen
The craft of directing
14.00-15.00 COMPETITION
Films competition B
COMPETITION
Films competition C
SCREENING
Films selection W
COMPETITION
Films selection C
Q&A Session
SCREENING
Films selection Y
Yasar University
(Izmir, Turkey)
15.15-16.15 COMPETITION
Films selection D
COMPETITION
Films competition D
Q&A Session
COMPETITION
Films selection D
17.00 OPENING CEREMONY*
19.00 AWARD CEREMONY*

All events will take place in CEP Cinema only * will take place in the Conference Hall