Author: BoranAksoy

The documentary “İnci Anne” (Mother İnci, 2019), directed by Department of Communication and Design student Yiğit Can Çaylı, received the Hasan Kalyoncu Special Award at the Golden Baklava Film Academy’s International Student Film Festival, hosted by Hasan Kalyoncu Üniversitesi on December 10–12. Yiğit worked together with a team of his fellow COMD students to produce […]

As of October 07, 2019 the Department of Communication and Design is an accredited member of CILECT, the International Association of Film and Television Schools (Centre International de Liaison des Ecoles de Cinéma et de Télévision). During the CILECT 2019 Congress at VGIK in Moscow, at the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the world’s oldest film school, the Department of […]

By Daniela Dimitrova, Iowa State University and Emel Ozdora Aksak, Bilkent University We’ve all seen the pictures—the tiny body of a boy drowned on the way to Europe or the veiled, desperate mother separated from her child inside a refugee camp. This is how most people learn about the Syrian refugee crisis, among the biggest […]