Wim Wenders

The Istanbul Film Festival is ready for its 43rd edition between April 17 and 28, bringing together acclaimed and award-winning films from the Türkiye and world cinema, as well as special screenings, stars and master filmmakers. Festival tickets are on sale as of today. 

The Goethe Institute (14-16 Omirou, goethe.de) is screening two Wim Wenders classics on Monday, free of charge, in a tribute organized in cooperation with the Premiere Nights Athens Film Festival to Michel Demopoulos, the filmmaker and former artistic director of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival who passed away last month.

Photographer Renate Graf's exhibition "Going Back in Time and the Silk Road" is welcoming visitors at Ankara CerModern, in a joint program organized by the Institut Français Ankara, the embassies of France and Austria, and CerModern.

The decision to award this year's Nobel Prize for literature to Austrian author Peter Handke, alongside Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk, has sparked angry reactions because of Handke's past support for Slobodan Milosevic's regime.

Kosovo's ambassador to the United States, Vlora Citaku, described the decision as "preposterous and shameful".

The Greek Film Archive's Lais open-air cinema is hosting a tribute to movies shot in famous urban settings, showing 13 films shot in 11 cities. The program begins at 8.30 p.m. on Thursday with Wim Wenders' 1995 "Lisbon Story." Subsequent screenings will take place at 8.30 and 10.30 p.m.

More than 140 films that have been screened and/or awarded at leading European film festivals such as Cannes and Berlin make up the seven-week annual Tainiorama film panorama, taking place at the Asty cinema in downtown Athens from May 16 to July 3. There will be three screenings every night - starting at 6 p.m. - with films organized according to theme.

Internationally renowned director Wim Wenders arrives in Sofia on April 5 at the invitation of the Bulgarian commissioner for digital economy and digital society Mariya Gabriel, the European Commission Representation in Bulgaria announced.

Istanbul Modern Cinema will present a selection of panoramic films about harbors in conjunction with a new exhibition about ports.

Another year of courageous documentary filmmaking is about to reveal itself: the 17th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Images of the 21st Century has officially started and it promises to offer some of the most striking samples of the genre.

BELGRADE - A selection of films by one of the greatest living filmmakers, Wim Wenders, will start screening at the Yugoslav Film Archive in Belgrade on Wednesday.

The program is opening with "Palermo Shooting", premiered in 2008, and a total of 11 releases by the celebrated German director will be screened until February 21.