The six-day event features more than 50 films, including 10 feature-length films, 10 short films and 12 documentaries.
The main programme of the festival features films which are first or second-time works.
Two documentaries will be shown before the official start of the festival. One is "Dimmer" by Talmage Cooley, which has been shortlisted for an Oscar nomination, and the other is "Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul" by Fatih Akin, who won the "Felix" award for best European film and the 2004 "Golden Bear" in Berlin for the film "Gegen die Wand" (Head-On).