Skip to main content

The RAI FILM Festival will take place in Bristol (UK) from 11 to 15 June 2025, and online (available worldwide) from 16 June – 16 July, including the online film conference from 1 to 4 July.

Search our film database

Istanbul Notes

Directed by Özlem Sariyildiz, Yunus Emre Aydin

2016 – 69'

Synopsis

‘Istanbul Makamı’ is a cinematographic improvisation with 5 musicians from abroad who fall in love with the Maqam Music (Classical Ottoman Music) and decide to live in Turkey believing that music might best be learned in the lands it was born and performed. Each has different stories but the desire to find their own paths intersects their roads.

View film website