Specter
A selection in Istanbul Film Festival by Burak Çevik
Specter noun
1. A visible incorporeal spirit, especially one of a terrifying nature; ghost; phantom; apparition.
2. Some object or source of terror or dread
The selection titled Specter, which Burak Çevik started curating in 2023,
was established to bring together films that open up space for different narrative languages in cinema.
2025 Selection
Features:
Measures for a Funeral (Sofia Bohdanowicz)
Reflet Dans Un Diamant Mort (Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani)
Miséricorde (Alain Guiraudie)
Kontinental '25 (Radu Jude)
What Mary Didn’t Know (Konstantina Kotzamani)
Stranger (Zhengfan Yang)
aught by the Tides (Jia Zhang-Ke)
2024 Selection
Features:
- Eureka (Lisandro Alonso)
- Man in Black (Wang Bing)
- Pepe (Nelson S. Arias)
- Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (Radu Jude)
- You Burn Me (Matías Piñeiro)
- In Our Day (Hong Sang-soo)
- Battle in Heaven (Carlos Reygedas)
2023 Selection
Features:
- De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Lucien Castaing & Taylor Verena Paravel)
- Here (Bas Devos)
- In Water (Hong Sang-soo)
- Herbaria (Leandro Listorti)
- Human Flowers of Flesh (Helena Wittmann)
- Too Early/Too Late (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub)
Shorts:
- In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun (Sylvia Schedelbauer)
- To Pick a Flower (Shireen Seno)
- The Sparrow Dream (Robert Beavers)
- Renate (Ute Aurand)
- After Work (Celine Condorelli & Ben Rivers)
- Laberint Sequences (Blake Williams)
- Hafıza Labirentleri (Esra Tanrıverdi)
- Uzun Günler (Selen Solak)
- Exhibition (Mary Helena Clark)
- Will You Look At Me (Shuli Huang)
- In-between World (Cana Bilir-Meier)
- Ashes by Name is Man (Ewelina Rosinska)
A selection in Istanbul Film Festival by Burak Çevik
Specter noun
1. A visible incorporeal spirit, especially one of a terrifying nature; ghost; phantom; apparition.
2. Some object or source of terror or dread
The selection titled Specter, which Burak Çevik started curating in 2023,
was established to bring together films that open up space for different narrative languages in cinema.
2025 Selection
Features:
Measures for a Funeral (Sofia Bohdanowicz)
Reflet Dans Un Diamant Mort (Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani)
Miséricorde (Alain Guiraudie)
Kontinental '25 (Radu Jude)
What Mary Didn’t Know (Konstantina Kotzamani)
Stranger (Zhengfan Yang)
aught by the Tides (Jia Zhang-Ke)
2024 Selection
Features:
- Eureka (Lisandro Alonso)
- Man in Black (Wang Bing)
- Pepe (Nelson S. Arias)
- Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (Radu Jude)
- You Burn Me (Matías Piñeiro)
- In Our Day (Hong Sang-soo)
- Battle in Heaven (Carlos Reygedas)
2023 Selection
Features:
- De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Lucien Castaing & Taylor Verena Paravel)
- Here (Bas Devos)
- In Water (Hong Sang-soo)
- Herbaria (Leandro Listorti)
- Human Flowers of Flesh (Helena Wittmann)
- Too Early/Too Late (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub)
Shorts:
- In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun (Sylvia Schedelbauer)
- To Pick a Flower (Shireen Seno)
- The Sparrow Dream (Robert Beavers)
- Renate (Ute Aurand)
- After Work (Celine Condorelli & Ben Rivers)
- Laberint Sequences (Blake Williams)
- Hafıza Labirentleri (Esra Tanrıverdi)
- Uzun Günler (Selen Solak)
- Exhibition (Mary Helena Clark)
- Will You Look At Me (Shuli Huang)
- In-between World (Cana Bilir-Meier)
- Ashes by Name is Man (Ewelina Rosinska)
