Istanbul Film Festival: April 3-18 (#istanbul2010)

Istanbul Film Festival to take place in April 3-18

As Turkey’s largest film activity, the International Istanbul Film Festival drew an audience of 162,000 last year. This year the programme is, once again, packed to the brim.

Program can be found here

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