Feature: Istanbul Film Festival smooth but different amid pandemic gloom

Kerem Ayan, director of the Istanbul Film Festival, speaks during an interview with Xinhua in Istanbul, Turkey, on Oct. 13, 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Istanbul Film Festival, one of the most distinguished cultural events in Istanbul, adopted a hybrid model this year, offering some movies online and others in only two screening rooms, one in the European side and the other in the Asian part. (Photo by Osman Orsal/Xinhua)