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The 14th Bogazici Film Festival unveiled its 2026 poster this week, ahead of its Nov. 8-15 run in Istanbul, as cities worldwide prepare for a busy stretch of film screenings, exhibitions, concerts, literary gatherings and stage performances.
The Bogazici Culture and Arts Foundation is organizing the festival with support from the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism's General Directorate of Cinema.
It will bring together Turkish and foreign productions, along with talks, masterclasses and industry events. Anadolu is the festival's Global Communication Partner.
The poster was designed by Fatma Betul Okuyucu. It combines imagery associated with Istanbul and cinema in a layered collage of textures, handwritten elements, colors and illustrations that expands outward from the center.
The design is meant to reflect the city's movement, energy and inclusive character while conveying the atmosphere of a film festival.
In Britain, the 70th BFI London Film Festival begins Wednesday and runs through Oct. 18, presenting new films, television productions and immersive works in London and at cinemas across the United Kingdom.
The festival opens with the European premiere of Simon Stone's "Elsinore." Ten productions are competing for the Best Film award, which will be announced Oct. 18.
In the United States, the 64th New York Film Festival continues through Oct. 12. Its main selection includes 34 films, and screenings are also being held across the city's five boroughs through Friday.
Organized by Film at Lincoln Center, the festival opened Sept. 25 with James Gray's "Paper Tiger" and will close with Ava DuVernay's "14th."
Authors, publishers, literary agents and readers will gather in Germany for the 78th Frankfurt Book Fair, which runs Wednesday through Sunday.
Czechia is this year's Guest of Honour. The fair will also explore links between literature, film, audio production and gaming.
The program includes Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore, International Booker Prize winner Yang Shuang-zi, German writer Shida Bazyar and children's author Cornelia Funke. The fair is initially focused on industry professionals and opens to the public Friday.
In New York, the Museum of Modern Art is showing "The Surrealist Book: Tomorrow Lives in Mirrors" through Jan. 23, while the Metropolitan Museum of Art presents "Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous" through Jan. 31.
The Paris Opera Ballet opens its season Saturday with a gala at the Palais Garnier. Carnegie Hall hosts the Berlin Philharmonic under Kirill Petrenko on Friday and Saturday, and the Sydney Opera House presents Brahms performances Thursday through Saturday, along with its family-focused Wild Things festival through Sunday.
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