International Main Competition
10 films
14 countries · 2 films from Türkiye
7–11 October 2026 · BOZCAADA
BIFED2026
We gathered on Bozcaada from 7 to 11 October. 44 films from 30 countries, free screenings, more than 3,000 film viewers and over 300 event participants. The films, awards and report of the festival we made together at BIFED 2026.
Explore the films
- 44
- Selected films
- 30
- Countries represented
- 506
- Film submissions
- 3,000+
- Film viewers
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The festival in numbers
Gaia Student Film Competition
7 films
8 countries · 2 films from Türkiye
Panorama
15 films
18 countries · 4 films from Türkiye
Special Screenings
12 films
4 countries · 3 films from Türkiye
Submissions
506 films were submitted from 89 countries.
Women directors
Women directors are represented in 50% of the selected films.
Screenings
All films were screened free of charge with English and Turkish subtitles.
Countries represented at the festival
Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, France, Germany, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kosovo, Mexico, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, Peru, Portugal, Rwanda, Slovakia, Spain, Suriname, Switzerland, Türkiye, United Kingdom, United States.
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Audience and attendance
Bozcaada Public Education Centre: 150 seats · 14 screenings · approximately 2,100 viewers
Salhane: 60 seats · 14 screenings · approximately 840 viewers
Due to strong demand for screenings, additional chairs and seats were provided in the venues for sessions where needed.
More than 3,000 film viewers across two screening venues.
More than 300 participants across six events.
Three event venues: Itırlı Bahçe, Delos Otel and Zübeyde Hanım Parkı.
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Awards
The Price of the Sun
Jérôme le Maire · Belgium, France, Morocco · 91 min · 2026
Didy
Gaël Kamilindi, François-Xavier Destors · France, Switzerland, Rwanda · 84 min · 2024
The Price of the Sun
Jérôme le Maire · Belgium, France, Morocco · 91 min · 2026
Oscurana
Violeta Mora · Belgium, Honduras, Portugal · 20 min · 2025
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Events and exhibitions
- 8 October11:00Aural Design in the Footsteps of Sound EcologyAlper MaralDelos Otel
- 8 October17:30The Material Continues — Exhibition and Artist GatheringSelçuk GürışıkItırlı Bahçe
- 9 October09:30Sensory Ecology Walking WorkshopÜmit HamlacıbaşıBozcaada
- 9 October13:00The Ecology of Labour — Work, Health and the Right to LifeDGD-SEN — Neslihan Acar, Feyza Nur KayaaltıSalhane
- 9 October15:00Collective Film Reading Workshop: Thinking about Films TogetherLalehan ÖcalDelos Otel
- 10 October17:30Mukufluk — Collective Labour and Social Memory in Ecological ResistanceKenan Kahya, The Women of YırcaZübeyde Hanım Parkı
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Festival selection
International Main Competition
10 films- Didy · Gaël Kamilindi, François-Xavier Destors · Switzerland, France, Rwanda · 2024 · 90 min
- Green Desert · Meliza Luna Venegas · Chile · 2025 · 75 min
- Heat · Jacqueline Zünd · Switzerland · 2026 · 87 min
- Kukata Miti · Daniel Kötter · Germany, DR Congo, Indonesia · 2026 · 79 min
- Missing Rio Doce · Claudia Neubern · France, Brazil · 2024 · 72 min
- Monikondee · Tolin Alexander, Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan · Suriname, Netherlands · 2025 · 103 min
- On the Dry Rock · Yeşim Ustaoğlu, Selen Heinz · Türkiye · 2026 · 76 min
- The Price of the Sun · Jérôme le Maire · Belgium, France, Morocco · 2026 · 91 min
- Tide · Evrim İnci · Türkiye · 2026 · 10 min
- Time Amongst Olive Trees · Fany de la Chica · Spain · 2025 · 59 min
Gaia Student Film Competition
7 films- Fishbone on the Hook · Bedirhan Topcu · Türkiye · 2026 · 30 min
- Ghost Nets · Ayşenur Sülün · Türkiye · 2025 · 24 min
- I Walk While The Glaciers Melt · Lucia Lambarri Barberis · Peru, United Kingdom · 2024 · 9 min
- Oscurana · Violeta Mora · Honduras, Portugal, Hungary, Belgium · 2025 · 20 min
- Seablindness · Tereza Smetanová · Slovakia · 2025 · 29 min
- The Fishers of M · Myanmar · 2025 · 45 min
- Tilapia · Crispin Yanisi · Belgium · 2025 · 19 min
Panorama
15 films- Dockworkers · Perla Sardella · Italy · 2024 · 81 min
- East to West: Corsica to Bodrum · Mert Gökalp · Türkiye, France · 2025 · 38 min
- Human in Quest · Aslı Akdağ · Türkiye · 2026 · 45 min
- I(s)land · Nazlı Ökten · Türkiye · 2026 · 45 min
- Materia Prima · Jens Schanze · Germany · 2026 · 90 min
- Power in the Desert · Emiliano Rodríguez Nuesch · Argentina, Chile, USA · 2025 · 60 min
- Requiem in White · Harry Putz · Austria, Germany, Italy, Switzerland · 2025 · 61 min
- Slow Death · İlkay Nişancı · Türkiye · 2025 · 85 min
- The Beauty of the Donkey · Dea Gjinovci · Switzerland, Kosovo, France, USA · 2025 · 77 min
- The Roots of Madness · Edgar Hagen · Switzerland · 2026 · 107 min
- The Sky Above Zenica · Zlatko Pranjic, Nanna Frank Møller · Denmark, Bosnia and Herzegovina · 2024 · 92 min
- The Unfixing · Nicole Betancourt · USA, Spain, Mexico · 2024 · 87 min
- Walking and Singing Endangered Worlds · Eliana Otta · Peru, Austria · 2026 · 88 min
- Wider than the Sky · Valerio Jalongo · Switzerland · 2025 · 83 min
- Yanuni · Richard Ladkani · Austria, Brazil, USA, Canada, Germany · 2025 · 112 min
Special Screening
1 films- Aksona "The Unsung Heroes of the Big Blue" · Ünal Altunyaymak · Türkiye · 2026 · 68 min
Resistance with Music
2 films- Longing for the Sun · Caner Kaya · Türkiye · 2026 · 86 min
- 30 Years with Songs of Fraternity · Çayan Demirel, Ayşe Çetinbaş · Türkiye · 2025 · 108 min
Indigenous Voices from Brazil
3 films- Tree of Dream · Morzaniel Ɨramari · Brazil · 2023 · 17 min
- A Woman Thinking · Aida Harika Yanomami, Edmar Tokorino Yanomami, Roseane Yariana · Brazil · 2023 · 9 min
- The Fishing with Timbó · Aida Harika Yanomami, Edmar Tokorino Yanomami, Roseane Yariana Yanomami · Brazil · 2023 · 10 min
ALT-EFF × BIFED: Ecological Documentaries from India
4 films- Miles Away · Megha Acharya · India · 2025 · 50 min
- Lost Songs of Sundari · Sudarshan Sawant · India · 2023 · 9 min
- I am Zanskar · Lobzang Wangtak, Akshat Jain · India · 2025 · 27 min
- Waste and The City - The Mavallipura Landfill Story · Arishma Rao, Vishwesh Bhagirathi Shivaprasad · India · 2024 · 29 min
SiciliAmbiente × BIFED: Island Cooperation
2 films- Fog Eaters · Kyle Baker · USA · 2025 · 19 min
- Power of the People · Will Parrinello · USA · 2026 · 9 min
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Juries
Main Competition Jury
Music and Sound Design Jury
Student Competition Jury
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Pre-selection team
- Aişe Özaytürk
- Ayşe Gülcemal Sarılı
- Beyza Aksoy
- Dilara Gevrek
- Dominique Peftitseli
- Egecan Çitim
- Ergi İşbilen
- Ethem Özgüven
- Irene Jadraque
- Meryem Amine Şanlıer
- Nigâr Mat
- Pavlina Lazaridou
- Pedro García Santos
- Petra Holzer
- Süleyman Evran
- Şevval Dolanbay
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Festival design
Award design
Seda Portakal
Festival tote bag design
Seda Portakal
Catalogue graphic design
Seda Portakal
Festival spots
Ethem Özgüven
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Festival team
- Office
- Beyza Aksoy, Süleyman Evran
- Social Media Team
- Asel Güven, Deniz Ağyel, Meryem Amine Şanlıer, Nurkan Başer
- Social Media Graphic Design
- Cihan Özorhan, Mehlika Yıldırım
- Media Relations
- Beyza Aksoy
- Events and Accommodation
- Hande Kırıcı, Nigâr Mat, Selen Şentürk, Sude İkiz, Umut Can Dalgıç
- Jury Coordination
- Beyza Aksoy, Selen Aksoy, Süleyman Evran
- Venue Staff and Q&A Translation
- Aişe Özaytürk, Dilara Gevrek, Duru Acet, Yahya Sefa Ekinci, Tuğrul Purde, Umut Can Dalgıç, Jan Alexander Gruehn, Ali Muratoğlu
- Film Traffic
- Beyza Aksoy, Süleyman Evran
- Subtitles
- Deniz Ağyel, Dilara Gevrek, Kenan Ağyel, Levent Menekay, Mehlika Yıldırım, Neslihan Günindi, Şevval Dolanbay, Umut Dalgıç
- Film Screening Team
- Unitech - Özgür Oğuz Tuna, Coşkun Tuna
- Award Design
- Seda Portakal
- Festival Tote Bag Design
- Seda Portakal
- Festival Spots
- Ethem Özgüven
- Catalogue — Graphic Design
- Seda Portakal
- Catalogue — Content, Translation and Editing
- Aişe Özaytürk, Meryem Amine Şanlıer, Nigâr Mat, Şevval Dolanbay
- Webmaster
- Egecan Çitim
- Technical Coordination
- Levent Menekay
- Photography, Editing and Video
- Egecan Çitim, Levent Menekay, Neslihan Günindi, Seda Portakal
- Opening and Closing Ceremonies — Coordination and Planning
- Beyza Aksoy, Nigâr Mat
- Opening and Closing Ceremonies — Host
- Nigâr Mat
- Opening and Closing Ceremonies — Translation
- Aişe Özaytürk
- Municipality Coordination
- Bilgütay Ergül, Gülay Elbir Uslu, Hülya Talay Koloğlu, Hande Kırıcı, Zeynep Özel
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Sponsors and supporters
Partners
- Austrian Cultural Forum
- Brazilian Consulate
- Indian Consulate
- Goethe Institut
- French cultural Institute
Supporters
- DoGo
- Çicek Fırın
- Coffee Shelter
- Salhane
Media and Press
- Anka Haber Ajansı
- Unvrs Agency
- Muzir.org
- Açık Radyo
- Magma
Transfer and Transport
- Skoda
Accommodation Sponsors
- Aral
- Bağ badem
- Nefes ada
- Delos
- Rengigül
- Bozcaada Pansiyon
- Mavi Karga
- Demirtaş Otel
- Nil Ada
- Aspava
- Tenedion Otel
- Ersin Konak
- Orta oda
- Kırlı Pansiyon
- Doğa Pansiyon
- Vita Longa
- Nilia
- Bağ Bahce
Venue Sponsors
- Salhane
- Halk Eğitim Merkezi
- Tenedion Şarap Evi
- Itırlı Bahçe
- Delos Otel
Festival Collaborations
- SiciliAmbiente
- ALT-EFF
- Los Trabajos y las Noches
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Membership
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