Onat Kutlar

The 41st Istanbul Film Festival, Turkey's biggest international cinema event, opened on April 9, with Kadıköy Municipality's Cinematheque/Cinema House being one of the movie theatres where the festival films are being screened.

50 years on, cinema lovers gather to pay homage to Sinematek, which screened classics and rare films and inculcated a love of cinema in citizens around Turkey This week marks the 50th anniversary of one of Turkey?s most important and influential cinema initiatives, the Sinematek Association, the Turkish Cinémathèque Association.