FESTIVAL PURPOSE

Our aim is cinema; 

 Cinema is a business of target. Those who have a target have a story, those who have a story have something to tell.  In 2013, we had a problem, why can't we make our own cultural values the raw material of cinema? While we were questioning, the idea of 7Saints  7 Cities was formed.  For this reason, we set out to ensure the production of films with ethical, aesthetic and technical integrity on these values by bringing them to the agenda of young and professional filmmakers. The awareness we wanted to create with our young colleagues was to contribute to social awareness by producing films on our core values. By gathering filmmakers from many countries in the same framework, we wanted to create a new language on our common ground and tell the world that we also have these. It was to explain this to the masses in a correct and understandable way through our festival.

The producer and carrier of Global Culture is television and cinema. With the 7 Saints 7 Cities Short Film Festival, we wanted to enable the television and filmmakers of tomorrow to write scripts on the architects and values of our root paradigms and to produce films by putting people at the center. The awareness that we aimed to create an agenda with our young colleagues would open a new framework for cinema from their perspectives, which it did.

In the past years, we have brought 70 great personalities written by 70 screenwriters to the cinema screen. We screened the films of 77 directors within the scope of our festival. We gave honorary awards to the leading names of world cinema. Together, we said "Long live cinema" with a louder voice every year. 

We share the excitement of our colleagues who will reflect our project, which we have prepared by focusing on human and human values, remaining faithful to the freedom of vision, to the white screen and paper with the same sensitivity, and we are honored to carry 7 provinces 7 custody to the cinema with 7 short films.

Festival committee and President of Ehli Sanat Cinema Culture Association

Eda Sürmeli