4. İstanbul Bahar Film Festivali
İstanbul Spring Film Festival

15 - 16 Mart 2026

Düzenleyen

Festival Director - Dr. Görkem Uludüz
Art Director - Nedim Aka
Communication Director - Akın Akkol
Technical Advisor - Ziver Navdar
Communication Advisor - Gamze Lim

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Ödüller


Uzun Metraj Film Yarışması, En İyi Film Ödülü
Axis of Life / 2025 / Uzun Kurmaca / Atanas Hristoskov / 01:55:00
Yırtıcı (Predator) / 2023 / Uzun Kurmaca / Sezgin Irmak / 01:51:51

Uzun Belgesel Film Yarışması, En İyi Film Ödülü
8 Seconds / 2025 / Uzun Belgesel / Jean-Marie Vinclair / 01:18:00
Heraion Teikhos'un Kadınları (The Women of Heraion Teikhos) / 2024 / Uzun Belgesel / Özge Deniz Özker / 00:59:00
The Ethnic Origins Of Beauty: Episode 1 / 2025 / Uzun Belgesel / Natalia Ivanova / 00:52:00

Kısa Film Yarışması, En İyi Film Ödülü
326 / 2025 / Kurmaca / Miray Kuyumcu / 00:08:51
Signal / 2025 / Kurmaca / Sree Hari Varma Sagi / 00:03:00

Kısa Belgesel Film Yarışması, En İyi Film Ödülü
Bir Dönüşüm Hikâyesi (A Story Of Transformation) / 2026 / Belgesel / Ceyhun Bağcı, Mehmet Köprü / 00:20:00

Kısa Animasyon Film Yarışması, En İyi Film Ödülü
In Gaza Pietas / 2025 / Kurmaca / Diego Monfredini / 00:09:15
Prout / 2025 / Canlandırma / Marc-Henri Wajnberg / 00:08:00

En İyi Yönetmen Ödülü
My Boyfriend, A Mannequin / 2025 / Uzun Kurmaca / Dmitry Nikolenko / 01:17:00 / Dmitry Nikolenko

En İyi Yapımcı Ödülü
Aslında Herkes (Actually, Everyone) / 2025 / Kurmaca / Emre Cef Kamhi / Yiğit Serdar Canoğlu
Kür - Çaylar Anası (Kur – The Mother of Rivers) / 2025 / Uzun Belgesel / Seyran Mahmudoghlu Badalov / 00:59:55 / Seyran Mahmudoghlu Badalov
My Boyfriend, A Mannequin / 2025 / Uzun Kurmaca / Dmitry Nikolenko / 01:17:00 / Arseny Ovchinnikov

En İyi Sinematografi Ödülü
Gadouk / 2025 / Kurmaca / Farhad Nasiri / 00:24:00

En İyi Senaryo Ödülü
Forty Nine Degrees of Separation / 2025 / Kurmaca / John Croll Walsh

En İyi Kadın Oyuncu Ödülü
My Boyfriend, A Mannequin / 2025 / Uzun Kurmaca / Dmitry Nikolenko / 01:17:00 / Anastasiya Panova
Worldwide / Baharak Salehniya

En İyi Erkek Oyuncu Ödülü
Aslında Herkes (Actually, Everyone) / 2025 / Kurmaca / Emre Cef Kamhi / 00:18:27 / Murat Kılıç
Melange / 2024 / Kurmaca / Kevin Králl / 00:29:00 / Zoltán Rajkai
Yırtıcı (Predator) / 2023 / Uzun Kurmaca / Sezgin Irmak / 01:51:51 / Cihan Demir




















Finalist Filmler

Uzun Metraj Film Yarışması

Axis of Life / 2025 / Uzun Kurmaca / Atanas Hristoskov / 01:55:00
Debate / 2025 / Uzun Kurmaca / Nikolai Geffele / 01:58:00
Eclipse / 2025 / Uzun Kurmaca / Djin Sganzerla / 01:49:00
Kin / 2023 / Uzun Kurmaca / Michael (xx) Bowen, Sunny Dhinsey / 01:30:00
My Boyfriend, A Mannequin / 2025 / Uzun Kurmaca / Dmitry Nikolenko / 01:17:00
Yırtıcı (Predator) / 2023 / Uzun Kurmaca / Sezgin Irmak / 01:51:51

Uzun Belgesel Film Yarışması

8 Seconds / 2025 / Uzun Belgesel / Jean-Marie Vinclair / 01:18:00
Avrupa - And Things in Between / 2025 / Uzun Belgesel / Joshua Maciejok /
Flying With Fins / 2024 / Uzun Belgesel / Maria Averina / 01:24:00
Forced Renewables / 2025 / Uzun Belgesel / Francisco Javier Fernández Bordonada / 01:08:00
Heraion Teikhos'un Kadınları (The Women of Heraion Teikhos) / 2024 / Uzun Belgesel / Özge Deniz Özker / 00:59:00
İstanbul / 2025 / Uzun Belgesel / Resul Aygün, Elena Rodica Rotaru /
On Melting Snow / 2024 / Uzun Belgesel / Mojtaba Bahadori / 01:13:00
Spoiler için Teşekküler Tanrım (Thank You God For My Spoiler) / 2025 / Uzun Belgesel / Cihan Güngören, Mustafa Seven / 01:14:48
The Ethnic Origins Of Beauty: Episode 1 / 2025 / Uzun Belgesel / Natalia Ivanova / 00:52:00
The Strong Man Of Bureng / 2023 / Uzun Belgesel / Mauro Bucci / 01:15:00

Kısa Kurmaca Film Yarışması

326 / 2025 / Kurmaca / Miray Kuyumcu / 00:08:51
Aslında Herkes (Actually, Everyone) / 2025 / Kurmaca / Emre Cef Kamhi / 00:18:27
Aylan / 2025 / Kurmaca / Berhan Mete Arkın / 00:11:00
Balerin / 2025 / Kurmaca / Erdal Ruhi Duran / 00:14:47
Gün Ağarırken (While The Day Dawn) / 2026 / Kurmaca / Dalya Uçankuş / 00:29:43
Sakın Söyleme (Don't Say It) / 2025 / Kurmaca / Ezgi Temel / 00:12:25
Signal / 2025 / Kurmaca / Sree Hari Varma Sagi / 00:03:00
The Office From My Childhood Dreams / 2025 / Moda Filmi / Melis Şamdancı, İrem Özturan / 00:02:38
The Silence Of The Mime / 2026 / Kurmaca / Avyel Cohen / 00:14:58
Viktor / 2025 / Kurmaca / İrem Gökçen, Aron Eichhorn / 00:20:00

Kısa Belgesel Film Yarışması

Bir Dönüşüm Hikâyesi (A Story Of Transformation) / 2026 / Belgesel / Ceyhun Bağcı, Mehmet Köprü / 00:20:00
Naif (Naive) / 2025 / Belgesel / Serdar Sabuncu / 00:25:00

Kısa Animasyon Film Yarışması

In Gaza Pietas / 2025 / Kurmaca / Diego Monfredini / 00:09:15
Prout / 2025 / Canlandırma / Marc-Henri Wajnberg / 00:08:00











Best Short Film Award Winner
326 (Türkiye) Miray Kuyumcu

Best Short Film Finalist
Signal (India) Sree Hari Varma Sagi
Aylan (Slovenia) Berhan Mete Arkın
Viktor (Austria) Irem Gökçen, Aron Eichhorn
The Silence Of The Mime (Israel) Avyel Cohen
The Office From My Childhood Dreams (Uk) Melis Şamdancı, İrem Özturan
Sakin Söyleme (Türkiye) Ezgi Temel
Balerin (Türkiye) Erdal Ruhi Duran
Aslinda Herkes (Türkiye) Emre Cef Kamhi

Best Documentary Feature Award Winner
The Ethnic Origins Of Beauty: Episode 1 (France) Natalia Ivanova
The Women Of Heraion Teikhos (Türkiye) Özge Deniz Özker
8 Seconds (France) Jean-Marie Vinclair

Best Documentary Feature Finalist
İstanbul (Italy) Elena Rodica Rotaru, Resul Aygün
On Melting Snow (Belgium) Mojtaba Bahadori
The Strong Man Of Bureng (Italy) Mauro Bucci
Thank You God For My Spoiler (Türkiye) Cihan Güngören, Mustafa Seven
Avrupa - And Things İn Between (Germany) Joshua Maciejok
Flying With Fins (Bulgaria) Maria Averina
Forced Renewables (Spain) Francisco Javier Fernández Bordonada

Best Short Documentary Film Award Winner
A Story Of Transformation (Türkiye) Ceyhun Bağci, Mehmet Köprü

Best Short Documentary Film Finalist
Naif (Türkiye) Serdar Sabuncu

Best Feature Film Finalist
Eclipse (Brazil) Djin Sganzerla
Debate (Germany, Netherlands, Poland) Nikolai Geffele

Best Producer Finalist
My Boyfriend, A Mannequin (Russian Federation) Dmitry Nikolenko







İstanbul International Spring Film Festival is looking for short films as well as feature films, documentaries, student films, animations and trailers.

We accept films of any genres and language with a maximum length of 300 minutes for feature films and 40 minutes for short films and other types. Non-Turkish films must have English subtitles.

We do not accept:​

1. Amateur videos.
2. Extremist or propaganda content from religious or political organizations.
3. Pornography.
4. Films with a poor production standard (poor sound, no subtitles/captions for non-Turkish films, video resolution less than 1080p HD).
5. We don’t accept scripts.
6. We don't accept excerpts/scenes from films: The entire film should be submitted.

By submitting your film, take note that:

İstanbul International Spring Film Festival (IISFF) is hereby granted the rights to utilize an excerpt (trailer/teaser/poster/stills) from any film submitted for promotional purposes. The films will not be available online.

If we think that the categories submitted are not to a standard of a IISFF, they will be removed.

The competition reserves the right to reject applications and the jury can remove the movie from the competition at any time.

Entry fees are non-refundable. The individuals or corporations submitting their film hereby warrants that their film is authorized for possible screening (private and/or public) and understands and accepts these requirements, rules and regulations.