Australia’s Turkish Film Festival is now underway in Melbourne, and on Thursday shifts to Sydney.

This year’s program promises to be “a cinematic delight” according to organisers, with seven key feature films highlighting “the cultural experience of film among the two nations”.

Supported by the Turkish Consulate in Melbourne, the event aims to capture lifestyle issues, attitudes, socioeconomic changes, and cultural and political shifts through the medium of film.

A scene from Rüzgarlar (Image: Vimeo)

This year’s line up includes Eve Dönüş: Sarıkamış 1915, entitled Long Way Home in English, a story following seven men and women who flee a war zone in eastern Turkey. Rüzgarlar, portrays an unlikely friendship between a sound technician and a local woman on a Mediterranean island, while Daire, or Circle, looks at three everyday people who come up with extraordinary solutions to their lives’ ordinary circumstances.

Melbourne’s program is being held at the Palace Cinema Como in South Yarra, while Sydney’s program is at the Chauvel Cinema in Paddington. On 20th December, the program also opens in Adelaide where this year’s festival concludes.

For more information or to buy tickets, go to the Turkish Film Festival’s website.