Istanbul hosts '3rd Our World of Art-Film Days,' Jan. 23-26

III. Sanat Dunyamiz Art Film Days (3rd Our World of Art-Film Days) will take place in Istanbul from January 23 to January 26 at Loca at Yapi Kredi Culture and Arts.

The event draws Istanbul residents, foreign visitors, and expat communities who follow curated cinema and contemporary art in Türkiye. This year the theme is “Who’s Eating Who?”

The program examines food sources and distribution, food activism, hunger and satiety, relationships between consumer and consumed, gender roles in kitchens, and cultural and temporal meanings of food.

Yapi Kredi Culture Art and Publishing organizes the event through Sanat Dunyamiz magazine. Cinema critic Engin Ertan curated the program while Ahsen Erdogan, Fisun Yalcinkaya, and Engin Ertan prepared the selection. US anthropologist and writer John S. Allen joins as guest curator. Allen is the author of “The Omnivorous Mind.”

Film screenings run alongside contemporary art performances and a painting selection. Works by artist Vardal Canis remain on display throughout the festival.

Four day program at Yapi Kredi Culture and Arts Loca

Screenings and performances run across four days with international classics, new releases, and live events.

Friday January 23

Short film block at 16:00

• “Trespass the Salt” by Larissa Sansour and Youmna Chlala
• “Anima” by Yusuf Emre Yalcin
• “Ilha das Flores” by Jorge Furtado

Evening screenings

• 19:00 “Big Night” by Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci with introduction by John S. Allen
• 21:30 “The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover” by Peter Greenaway

Saturday January 24

• 13:00 “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” by Mel Stuart
• 15:00 Performance “Poor People’s Dish in Rich People’s Kitchen Peach Jam” by CANAN
• 16:00 “2001: A Space Odyssey” by Stanley Kubrick with introduction by John S. Allen
• 19:00 “L’interet d’Adam” by Laura Wandel
• 21:30 “Dawn of the Dead” by George A. Romero

Sunday January 25

• 13:00 “Les glaneurs et la glaneuse” by Agnes Varda followed by a talk with Asli Ildir
• 16:00 Turkish short films with directors in attendance
  “Family Dinner” by Tugce Sonmez and “Appetite for Destruction” by Zehra Eda Sert
• 19:00 “Semiotics of the Kitchen” by Martha Rosler followed by “Sedmikrásky” by Vera Chytilova with talk by Ayca Ciftci
• 21:30 “Soldaten des Lichts” by Johannes Buttner and Julian Vogel

Monday January 26

• 16:00 Short film block repeats
• 18:00 Performance “KYKEON” by TUNCA
• 19:00 Public talk “Who’s Eating Whom?”

Tickets are available through Biletix. The event continues the platform launched by Sanat Dunyamiz magazine, bringing films at the intersection of contemporary art and cinema to Istanbul audiences, including foreign visitors and expat communities in Türkiye.

January 16, 2026 12:13 PM GMT+03:00