Festival Data:

• Established: 1982
• Genre: General
• Attendance: 95000
• Media Attendance: 150
• Accredited Industry Attendance: 100
• Total Number of Films Screened: 214
• Total Screenings: 400
• # of Shorts Screened: 20
• # of Features Screened: 194
• Accreditations: FIAPF, FIPRESCI

• Competitive
• Has Panels

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Festival Description:

Organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts and sponsored by the Koç Group, the 10th International Istanbul Biennial is not a conventional thematic exhibition, rather; it emphasises artistic production based on collective intelligence and the living process of negotiating with physical sites. The Biennial focus on urban issues and architectural reality as a means of exposing different cultural contexts and artistic visions regarding the complex and diverse forms of modernity.

International Istanbul Biennial explores the venues through titles implying the venues’ role in Istanbul’s political, economic and social aspects of its modernisation process.