24 Nov - 8 Dec. The 17th annual showcase for Turkish film. Programme includes the latest films from Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, which we featured in our London Film Festival round-up here: http://www.theartsdesk.com/film/theartsdesk-2011-london-film-festival); Dervis Zaim (Shadows and Faces) and Sedat Yilmaz (‘Press’). Claudia Cardinale will be there at the opening night gala as star of Ali Ilhan’s directorial debut Being Italian with Signora Enrica, a comedy-drama about an elderly Italian woman who takes in a young Turkish exchange student. Other highlights of the festival include Tayfun Pirslimoglu’s Hair, which won both best Turkish Film and best Director at the 2011 Istanbul Film Festival; September, the first feature from photographer Cemil Agacikoglu; Do Not Forget Me Istanbul, a portrait of Istanbul as seen through the eyes of six young International directors and Home, the first feature from actor Muzatffer Ozdemir http://www.ltff.org.uk/