Crime and Punishment Fest looks to cinema to fuel carriage of justice
25.09.11
It is the success of merging artistic and academic explorations of the concept of justice demonstrated in films such as Lumet’s that the first İstanbul Crime and Punishment Film Festival, an event which got under way on Friday, is hoping to tap into over the course of the week-long festival.
An event taking place courtesy of the İstanbul University faculty of law in collaboration with the Başakşehir Municipality, the festival is screening close to 100 films from 40 countries. Featuring a dense academic program with legal panels, presentations, workshops and debates, the festival’s main focus in its inaugural year is coups d’état, a theme that holds particular significance in Turkey, a country which has seen four elected governments toppled by the military since 1960.
“Academics often get together and discuss issues relating to crime and punishment, the reform of punishment law and so on. But the fact of the matter is that criminal law reform
Source: Today's Zaman