Main Competition
11 films
14 countries – 1 from Türkiye
9–13 October 2024 · BOZCAADA
BIFED2024
From the screen to the island, and from the island to the world. With a selection of 35 films, workshops and encounters made possible through solidarity, BIFED 2024 brought people together around ecological documentaries.
Explore the films
- ≈500
- film submissions
- 100+
- submission countries
- ≈48%
- films directed by women
- 4,250
- reported views
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Festival in numbers
Each submission brought a voice from another place. The selection breakdown and figures reported by the festival:
Naci Güçhan Student Film Competition
6 films
7 countries – 1 from Türkiye
Panorama
12 films
10 countries – 5 from Türkiye
Special Screenings
6 films
4 countries, 5 from Türkiye
Submitted Films:Approximately 500 films from over 100 countries
Approximately 48% of the selected films are by female directors. The films were shown with English and Turkish subtitles.
Countries Represented at the Festival:
Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America.
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Audiences & venues
Two venues opened their screens, bringing audiences together with films and filmmakers.
4250
Community Center
150 seats (16 screenings – 2400 viewers)
Salhane
75 seats (22 screenings – 1650 viewers)
Opening and closing ceremonies and screenings of the winners: 525 viewers
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Events
Workshops, conversations and encounters around the screenings. This is a record of the past festival, not an upcoming programme.
- 10 October11:00Film Music WorkshopCan AzbazdarDelos Otel
- 10 October15:00Welcome ReceptionSalhane
- 11 October11:00Sensory Ecology Walking WorkshopÜmit HamlacıbaşıTenedion (office)
- 11 October15:00Monoculture Worlds: Thinking about the Plant Geography of the Eastern Black SeaFatma GençDelos Otel
- 11 October17:00Potter Gods: From Rock to Clay, from Clay to RockMustafa Hoşnut, Ümit HamlacıbaşıDelos Otel
- 12 October11:00Sensory Ecology Walking WorkshopÜmit HamlacıbaşıTenedion (office)
- 12 October13:00Make-A-Wish Türkiye and Solidarity WorkshopÖzlem ÖzenZübeyde Hanım Çay Bahçesi
- 12 October14:00Carbon-neutral EventsEleonora IsunzaDelos Otel
- 12 October15:00Documentary Stories from the AnthropoceneÖzlem Günel, Özcan Yurdalan, Yusuf Aslan, Dora Günel, Mustafa ÖzZübeyde Hanım Çay Bahçesi
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Awards
The stories that stay with us are also remembered through the jury’s awards.
Twice Colonized
Lin Alluna, Denmark – Canada
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Johan Grimonprez, Belgium – France – Netherlands
Water for Life
Will Parrinello, USA
Tale of the Three Flames
Juliette Menthonnex, Portugal – Switzezland – Hungary – Belgium
I’m the River, the River is me
Petr Lom, Netherlands – Norway – New Zealand
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Festival selection
The complete selection listed in the report. Explore film titles, directors and production details.
Main Competition
11 films- I Am The River, The River Is Me, Petr Lom, NL/N/NZ, 2024, 88’
- Rejeito, Pedro de Filippis, BR, 2024, 75’
- Twice Colonized, Lin Alluna, DK/CA, 2023, 92’
- Been There, Corina Schwingruber Ilić, CH, 2023, 9’
- Water for Life, Will Parrinello, USA, 2023, 91’
- Nocturnes, Anirban Dutta & Anupama Srinivasan, IN/USA, 2024, 83’
- Vista Mare, Julia Gutweniger, Florian Kofler, IT/AT, 2023, 80‘
- Deep Rising, Matthieu Rytz, USA, 2022, 93’
- Soundtrack To A Coup d’Etat, Johan Grimonprez, BE/FR/NL, 2024, 150’
- Razing Liberty Square, Katja Esson, USA, 2023, 86’
- Wine Colored Sea, Nefin Dinç, TR, 2024, 43’
Naci Güçhan Student Competition
6 films- The Closing of a Refinery, Vasco Monteiro, PT, 2023, 16’
- Tale of the Three Flames, Juliette Menthonnex, PT/HU/BE, 2023, 21’
- The Boy Who Lives By The Sea, Shwe Yee Oo, MM, 2024, 22’
- Oli Kâhuli, Muhammad Ali Ijaz, USA, 2023, 14‘
- Fading Away, Rukiyye Bayram / Zeynep Keskin, TR / 18′ / 2024
- Cyprus Mines Corporation, Sadık Tevfik Kayrakçı, Melisa Santürk, NCY / 24′ / 2023
Panorama
12 films- The Pickers, Elke Sasse, DE/PT/GR, 2024, 80’
- Until the End of the World, Francesco De Augustinis, IT, 2024, 58’
- Blix not Bombs, Greta Stocklassa, CZ/DE/SE, 2023, 85’
- Down To The Last Drop, Harry Putz, AT, 2023, 32’
- Pouring Water on Troubled Oil, Nariman Massoum, UK, 2023, 26’
- Send Kelp! Blake McWilliam, CA, 2024, 89’
- Valley Pride, Lukas Marxt, AT/DE, 2023, 15’
- Anthropocene, Mehmet Gürü Avcu, TR, 2023, 5’
- Shrinkage: Wildfires and Nomads, Nazım Güveloğlu, TR, 2024, 34’
- Harvest of Light, Esin Özalp Öztürk, TR, 52’
- Nomad, Selim Alan, TR, 2023, 47′
- 36, Rezan Mir Uğurlu, TR, 2023, 10′
Special Screenings
6 films- Radio My Love, Nazan Haydari, Özden Cankaya, Cem Hakverdi, TR, 2024, 65′
- Vineyard, Mustafa Dermanlı, TR, 2023, 66′
- The Fever, Katharina Weingartner, AT/DE/CH, 2019, 99′
- Hatay: 5-15 February 2024, İmre Azen, TR, 2024, 90’
- Sanatorium, Alaattin Timur, Adnan Payaslı, TR, 2023, 32’
- Singing in Dark Times, Ethem Özgüven, TR, 2024, 42’
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Juries
Different experiences and perspectives met in front of the same screen.
Naci Güçhan Student Award
Music and Sound Award
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Pre-selection team
The pre-selection team who helped shape the programme.
- Aksel Anıl
- Altay Erlik
- Beyza Aksoy
- Dominique Peftitseli
- Egecan Çitim
- Esengül Kolcuoğlu
- Irene Jadraque
- Kyriakos Peftitseli
- Pedro García Santos
- Petra Holzer
- Süleyman Evran
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Festival design
The festival’s visual memory: trophies, tote bags and design work.
Festival Award:
Ethem Özgüven – Seda Portakal
Festival Totebag:
Cihan Özorhan
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Festival team
The work behind the encounters. Roles and contributors as credited in the report.
- Festival President
- Yahya Göztepe
- Festival Coordinator
- Ethem Özgüven
- Festival Director
- Petra Holzer
- Assistant Director
- Süleyman Evran
- Event Coordinator
- Selen Şentürk, Mayra Çağlayan
- Translation
- İpek Yardımcı, Merve Atansay, Sabah Deniz Gülensoy, Şevval Dolanbay
- Press
- Beyza Aksoy, Selin Bozkurt
- Web Design
- Egecan Çitim
- Social Media
- Aişe Özaytürk, Melisa Uğur, Meryem Amine Şanlıer
- Graphic Design
- Ece Kurtboğan Kıray, Cihan Özorhan
- Press Advisor
- Mustafa Dermanlı
- Press Relations
- Beyza Aksoy, Selin Bozkurt, Nigâr Mat
- Finance and Resource Development
- Esma Akın
- Film Programming
- Petra Holzer
- Technical Coordinator
- Levent Menekay
- Office Manager
- Beyza Aksoy, Egecan Çitim, Süleyman Evran
- Social Media
- Aişe Özaytürk, Ece Dikmenli, Meryem Amine Şanlıer
- Social Media Graphic Design
- Cihan Özorhan
- Catalog Editing
- Seda Portakal
- Pre-Jury
- Aksel Anıl, Altay Erlik, Beyza Aksoy, Dominique Peftitseli, Egecan Çitim, Esengül Kolcuoğlu, Irene Jadraque, Kyriakos Peftitseli, Pedro García Santos, Petra Holzer, Süleyman Evran
- Highlights
- Ethem Özgüven
- Event and Accommodation Manager
- Selen Şentürk, Hande Kırıcı, Umut Can Dalgıç
- Jury Assistant
- Selen Şentürk, Nigâr Mat, Talya Özgüven
- Translation and Editing
- Aişe Özaytürk, Hümeyra Sare Şanlıer, Janset Özdemir, Merve Atansay, Meryem Amine Şanlıer, Sabah Deniz Gülensoy, Şevval Dolanbay
- Ceremony Hosts
- Fulya Yazgan, Nigâr Mat
- Video and Photography
- Adil Çetinkaya, Aksel Anıl, Yahya Sefa Ekinci
- Hall Staff
- Derin Okur, Hümeyra Sare Şanlıer, Nurkan Başer, Selenay Yıldırım
- Award Design
- Ethem Özgüven, Seda Portakal
- Festival Bag Design
- Cihan Özorhan, Ece Kurtboğan
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Sponsors & supporters
The festival was made possible together, with support from organisations and the island community.
Main Sponsor
- Kia
Founding Sponsor
- Demirer Energy
Oak Sponsors
- Aral Tatil Çiftliği
- Avusturya Kültür Ofisi
- Goethe-Institut
- Mey | Diageo
- Rengigül Konukevi
- TAKK
Supporters
- Çamlıbağ
- Çiçek Fırın
- Coffee Shelter
- Seniha
- Office
- Tenedion
Thanks
- Berna Küpeli
- Ekremcan Bakır
- Emine Öz
- Fatma Öz
- Filiz Özcan
- Haluk Kula
- Özlem Özen
- Selçuk Gürışık
- Yunus Emre Benli
- Zeynep Özkan
Partners
- İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi
- Yücel Kültür Vakfı
Transportation Sponsor
- Kia
Venue Sponsors
- Delos Otel
- Salhane
- Tenedion
- Zübeyde Hanım Çay Bahçesi
Press Sponsors
- Açık Radyo
- Bozcaada Haber
- Magma
- Mendirek
- Modern Times Review
Accommodation Sponsors
- Ada Evi MU
- Ada Nil Konuk Evi
- Adamarin Otel
- Aksoy Butik Otel
- Alesta Otel Bozcaada
- Aral Tatil Çiftliği
- Bağbadem Tatil Çiftliği
- Bağhane
- Bademlik Otel
- Deliasma
- Delos Otel
- Gelincik Otel
- Hera Butik Otel
- İkizler Otel
- İrinikos Otel
- Kalais Otel
- Kale Pansiyon
- Kırlı Otel
- Mauna Otel
- Marvella Otel
- Mon Petit Otel
- Nefes Ada Evleri
- Nilada Bozcaada
- Nilia Butik Otel
- OrtaOda
- Rengigül Konukevi
- TaşAda Hotel
- Umutdeniz Konukevi
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Beyond the island
BIFED’s journey continued beyond the festival itself. Screenings across cities and islands during the reporting period:
Bandırma Ecological Film Days (FestKoop) / 14-17 Nov. 2023
- Light of the Night
- Sugar Blues
- Spears from All Sides
- Up Down & Sideways
- The Land
- In the Shadows of the Apartments
- Sigh
- While Paradise Is Destroyed
- The Messenger
Postane
- The Waiting & Aralkum / 6 Dec. 2023
- Breaking Social / 20 Dec. 2023
Sinematek / 27 Jan. 2024
- Mancorna
- Formaldehyde
- Forgotten Nuclear Victims
- Aralkum
- The Waiting
- X Trillion
- Breaking Social
Darağac Kollektif – Darağaç Film Festivali / 14-17 March 2024
- The Waiting
- Grief
- Total Disaster
- Wongar
Postane – Collective film reading workshop /Lalehan Öcal
- To Pick A Flower – 17 Jan. 2024
- Dusk Chorus – 21 Feb. 2024
- Nothing but the Sun – 20 March 2024
- 2,0 Miligramm Gold – Apr. 2024
- Collette & Justin – 4 June 2024
212 Photography İstanbul / 10-11 Oct. Salt Beyoğlu
- Invaders
- Ecocide
- Stare into the Light My Pretties
Datça – Can Yücel Festival / 23-25 May 2024
- The Messenger
- Singing in Dark Times
Lüleburgaz / 5 June 2024
- Breathless
- Mountain of the Water Strandja
Gümüşlük Int. Music Festival 2024 / Jul. – Aug.
- Singing in Dark Times
Odunpazarı Modern Art Museum 2024 / Oct.-Nov.
- Breaking Social
- The Waiting
- Delikado
- Long Distance Swimmer: Sara Mardini
- The Forgotten Nuclear Victims
- X Trilyon
- A World to Shape
- Matter out of Place
BIFED Lemnos / 20-24 June 2024
- Breaking Social
- The Waiting
- Delikado
- Singing in Dark Times
- When Tomatoes met Wagner
- In the Shadows of the Apartments
BIFED Gökçeada / 18-21 Sep.
- Aether
- Barolo Boys
- The Waiting
- When Tomatoes met Wagner
- All Inclusive
- Spears from All Sides
- Invaders
- Singing in Dark Times
- A World to Shape
- X Trillion
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Stronger together
BIFED is a member of Green Film Network.
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