Festival
Date: Sunday, October 19, 2025
Time: 3:00–5:00 PM
Venue: Müze Gazhane
Duration: 2 hours
Participants: 15–20 people
Canlandıranlar International Film Festival is being held for the 13th time this year. The theme of the festival will be “Who’s Afraid of 13?” In this introducing workshop, held before the festival, we will experience the spirit of the festival together. We will learn about the festival’s venues, program, guest of honor, and jury members, and discuss the atmosphere created by the festival through images from past years.
In the second part of the workshop, we will test our festival knowledge with an interactive game. In the quiz section, which will include questions about the festival’s theme, history, and venues, correct answers will be rewarded with surprise prizes and a festival pass. This will provide an opportunity to reinforce festival knowledge in a fun way.
Afterwards, participants will be invited to a short creative exercise. Everyone will imagine their own festival mascot and bring it to life on paper. This project, which relies more on imagination than drawing skills, will reveal participants’ personal interpretations of the festival spirit. Those who wish will share their designs, and the most striking ideas will be rewarded with small prizes.
At the end of the workshop, information will be shared on ways to participate in the festival, including volunteering and participation opportunities. Participants will be able to access more content through the festival’s social media and communication channels.
Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Time: 12:00–6:00 PM
Venue: Institut Français
Duration: 3 sessions – Total 4 hours 30 minutes
Capacity: 15 participants
This workshop aims to explore the process of transforming sound from an idea to an animation. Participants will create scenes, design characters or locations based on the stories evoked by the sound, and ultimately produce a short animation.
Program:
- 12:00–1:30 PM — Çağla Aslan will lead a workshop on stage and script creation using sound.
- 2:00–3:30 PM — Eda Çağıl Çağlarırmak will lead a character and/or setting design workshop based on the story and scene created in the previous workshop.
- 4:00–6:00 PM — Ferhat Akbaba will lead the creation of a short animation of the character/setting created from the story.
Who is Eligible?
All university students studying animation, graphic design, or film/TV at Fine Arts or Communication faculties are welcome to participate.
Required Materials:
Participants must bring a tablet or computer, a phone or camera suitable for their animation techniques, paper, a pencil, and an eraser.
Date: Friday, October 24, 2025
Time: 1:00pm–3:00 PM
Venue: Müze Gazhane
Duration: 2 hours
Participants: 10–15 people
Age Group:There is no age limit.
A screenplay is a story told within a dramatic structure through the depiction of images and sounds. The photographic imagery we engage with when writing a screenplay in film gives way to various audiovisual techniques in animation.
In this two-hour workshop, we will explore ways to incorporate the creative potential of technique and material into the scriptwriting process when writing a screenplay for animation.
We will consider together how the technique used in animation—stop-motion, illustration, 2D/3D, clay, or sand—is not merely a tool; we will consider how the unique world of the material shapes the narrative. In short, we will write a screenplay not by focusing on the camera, but by considering paper, clay, lines, and pixels.
The workshop focuses on creating a short scene. First, we will discuss together how a scene idea might arise. This idea might be inspired by a memory, a dream, or a vision.
In the practical part, each participant will develop their own scene idea; They will choose an animation technique and write a short text describing the scene, incorporating the possibilities of the chosen technique and the structure of the material into their creative thinking. At the end of the workshop, everyone will have a core scene script ready to be transformed into a film script.
Participants simply bring a pen and paper or a computer.
Date: Friday, October 24, 2025
Time: 3:00pm–5:00 PM
Venue: Müze Gazhane, T Workshop
Duration: 2 hours
Participants: 12–16 people
Age Group: 15 and above
The fundamental body and choreography knowledge we’ll internalize through movement will improve your expressive power and emotional control in character drawing. The spine, joints, gravity, opening/closing, posture, flow, and moving sculptures… The goal of our two-hour workshop is to internalize body knowledge through improvisation and to examine the nature of movement flow through observation.
Requirements: Since every body will move simply within its own boundaries, good general health is sufficient.
Material List: Comfortable clothing (neither too loose nor too tight); soft, comfortable sneakers; a spare pair of thick, non-slip socks; paper; a pen; and please, no jewelry 🙂
Date: Saturday, October 25, 2025
Time: 2:30PM–4:00 PM
Venue: Institut Français
Duration: 90 min
Capacity: 20 participants
Theme: Emotions
Participants are asked to recall the last emotion they felt. They are asked to imagine and draw what that emotion might look like if it were a character. They are then asked to distribute 100 points as they wish across four traits under the same heading for each character. Once this is completed, the card is complete.
Date: Saturday, October 25, 2025
Time: 4:30PM–6:00 PM
Venue: Institut Français
Duration: 90 min
Capacity: 20 participants
In this workshop, participants will learn the basics of pop-up design and create their own animated bookmark. They will use simple folding and cutting techniques to create a simple animated bookmark using pre-made characters.
