Mountain Film Festival, held every December in Beyoğlu, İstanbul, aims to present world's best mountain and nature films to the audience. Every year, the festival features domestic and international films and documentaries with themes of mountain, mountain culture, environment and nature. The festival also hosts discussion sessions with world-famous participants, seminars of different topics of mountain and nature, photograph and book exhibitions. Around 20 films will be shown during one week in two different halls.
Nature Activities Group ("Doğa Aktiviteleri Grubu",
www.dag.org.tr) is organizing the festival.
Opening Cocktail
The festival will kick off with an opening cocktail on March 2rd, 2009 at French Cultural Center.
Photograph Exhibitions
The exhibition named "Dağlarımız - Our Mountains" by Ersin Alok, held at the Beyoğlu YKB exhibition hall in 1968, is again meeting the audience as part of the film festival.
Traveling Festival
The films will also be presented in the traveling festival in Ankara, İzmir, Antalya and Bursa over the following months.
The festival will be held at French Cultural Center (www.infist.org) in Beyoğlu, İstanbul.
The festival is free of charge.