The 5th annual VTFF will take place on November 2, 3 and 4, at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts Cinema. Once more we are working jointly with SFU Woodward’s Cultural Programme as festival partners.

There will be a panel discussion on November 3, 2018 related to a theme in some of the films that will be screened. Two of the films portray the lives and challenges of Syrian Refugees in Turkey.

Turkish Cinema

As a “melting pot” of many cultures for thousands of years, the land of modern Turkey has so much to offer from a cultural sense, and the 5th Annual Vancouver Turkish Film Festival is one of the ways to share Turkey’s multicultural heritage with the residents of Metro Vancouver.

Turkish cinema has celebrated its centennial recently and flourished over the years. The success of Turkish cinema has been quite notable in the last few decades. The VTFF has also been a community partner to some of the Turkish films that premier at the international festival in Vancouver.