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FutureScope – Finalists Announced for the 2nd International Short Film Festival

The finalists have been announced for the second edition of the FutureScope – International Short Film Festival, organized this year by İstanbul Gelişim University in collaboration with the Public Relations and Promotion Directorate and the Faculty of Fine Arts. Bringing together the transformative power of cinema with the innovative vision of young people, the festival once again attracted great interest this year. Held under the theme “FutureScope,” all films in the festival were evaluated within the framework of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The finalists selected in the fiction, documentary, animation, and high school categories will meet the audience at the gala and award ceremony to be held on 5–6 December 2025.

 

2025 FutureScope Finalists

 
Fiction Category

• Kudret – Director: Mehmet Oğuz Yıldırım (Kastamonu) 
• Ghosts Coming from the East – Director: Ahmet Sami Kuriş (Sakarya) 
• Minus One – Director: Ömer Ferhat Özmen (İstanbul) 
• Black Wednesday – Director: Kazim Baynal (Gaziantep) 
• The Draw – Director: Muhammet Emin Altunkaynak (Manisa) 
• Mümeyyiz – Director: Turgut Kanal (Aksaray) 



 
Documentary Category

• Tree Man – Director: Mehmet Ali Poyraz (İstanbul) 
• Antioch Milad – Director: Hasan Hüseyin Korkmaz (Antalya) 
• Freedom Yearlings – Director: Meryem Şahin (İstanbul) 
• Uncertain Location – Director: Yusuf Erkan (İstanbul) 
• Mimas – Director: Evrim İnci (İzmir) 
• Sezenler Olsun – Director: Adem Giliz (İzmir) 



 
Animation Category

• Budu – Burcu Ejderoğlu (İstanbul) 
• Pat – Kaan Elönü & Batuhan Yıldız 
• Milo – Ege Tan Özdemir, İrem Sıla Fidalı, Servan Satan – Studio Felimation (İstanbul) 
• Whisper of the Well – Elif Dokur (Kütahya) 
• The Lumber’s Here – Zanna Abasova (İstanbul) 
• Kreta the Time Traveler – Ilgın Saçan & Gülşah Özdemir Koryürek 
• Who Killed Narin G*** – Ayçe Kartal (Eskişehir) 


 
High School Category 

• One Night at School – Yusuf Karaaslan (Giresun) 
• The Last Fish – Yüksel Ali Sarımehmetoğlu (Giresun) 
• Gray White – Esmanur Şahin (İstanbul) 
• Broom: The Last Masters of a Profession – Şeyma Bayram (Sakarya) 
• The Weeping Apricot – Ar Khachaturian (İstanbul) 
• I Have a Problem – Yaz Elkorek (İstanbul) 


 

Sustainability Declarations by High School Students

 
One of the special projects of this year’s festival will be the joint initiative between İstanbul Gelişim University and Büyükçekmece Anatolian High School. 
 
Approximately 250 high school students will come together in 14 separate classes over two days to discuss Sustainable Development Goal 17: “Partnerships for the Goals.” 
 
The students will present their proposed solutions and awareness-raising outcomes on stage with their own declarations during the festival’s gala day. This project, carried out in cooperation with Büyükçekmece Anatolian High School, aims—just as it did last year—to strengthen youth participation focused on sustainability.

 

FutureScope – Finalists Announced for the 2nd International Short Film Festival