PLEASE NOTE: Tickets for this event are now SOLD OUT! To thank everyone for buying their tickets in advance, we will give the first 40 people to arrive a free popcorn! (Remember - doors open at 6.30)

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As the launch event of the REMAKESPLOITATION film club, we are delighted to present a screening of Cem Kaya’s thoughtful and hilarious documentary Remake Remix Rip-Off (2014), that tells the history of Turkish exploitation cinema.

Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, Turkish filmmakers were taking advantage of lax copyright laws in order to remake hundreds of popular Hollywood films. Directors such as Metin Erksan and Çetin İnanç were producing low budget Turkish remakes of The Exorcist, E.T., Rambo, Superman, and even Star Wars! Cem Kaya’s documentary charts this little known period of film history with some truly incredible interviews and clips, highlighting the passion and dynamism that went into producing these remakes, and giving a genuine insight into this overlooked era of exploitation film production.

We are bringing director Cem Kaya over from Berlin especially for this event so he will be there on the night to introduce the film and do a Q&A afterwards.

Before the screening there will also be a lively intro to remakesploitation from Dr Iain Robert Smith (King’s College London), author of the new book The Hollywood Meme: Transnational Adaptations in World Cinema. Iain will be discussing these Turkish remakes alongside other examples of remakesploitation such as the 1966 Filipino film James Batman in which James Bond and Batman team up to fight crime, and the 2008 Bollywood film Ghajini in which Memento is remade in chronological order.

Doors open at 18.30 for a 19.00 start. Food and drink including some special Turkish snacks will be available for purchase. Tickets for the event are £5.

This event is being run in association with the Yunus Emre Enstitüsü London.

The organisers would also like to thank the Goethe Institut, Creative Skillset, and Free Film Festivals for their support.