Accessible Film Festival

Presenting it’s screenings and side activities in an accessible structure, Accessible Film Festival is an annual event where the best examples of the world and Turkish cinema meet with the movie goers, creating a space where everyone can share the experience of cinema equally. While the Festival presents the best recent and the classic examples of the world and Turkish cinema under thematic sections, it also hosts parallel activities such as Q&A sessions with the film crews, workshop for children, VR experiences etc. Due to the health concerns created by COVID-19 pandemic, the Festival will be organized in a hybrid format in 2021, involving both in-person and online screenings. The hybrid edition of Accessible Film Festival will host socially-distanced screenings in Ankara where strict measures would apply, while offering access to an online version at the same time. However, the course of the pandemic will determine physical screenings will be included or not in the Festival. In 2021, the newly-organized and extended Festival will feature a new program structure, with a new competition section to be presented in October. As usual, all films at the Festival will be accompanied by Turkish Audio-Description (AD) for those who are vision impaired and Turkish Caption Subtitling (CS) for those who are hearing impaired or hard of hearing. The Q&A sessions, workshops, panels and other parallel activities within the Festival will be realized in an accessible structure and all venues will be selected from the accessible ones.