Tag: the Berlin Film Festival

1897 Sigmund Weinberg (Romanian) hosts the first public screening of a film in Beyoglu, Istanbul. 1914 First film made by a Turk in Turkey. 1922 Kemal Film (Seded Brothers) is ...

Yesilçam ("Green pine") is a metonym for the Turkish film industry, similar to Hollywood in the United States, and Pinewood in the United Kingdom. Yeşilçam is named after Yeşilçam Street in theBeyoğlu district of Istanbul where many actors, directors, crew members and ...