"The approach of the film, which elegantly threads in snatches of Zoom conversations and off-screen chat, falls somewhere between interview, re-enactment and ethnographic observation, with faint echoes of Jeremy Marre projects such as Chasing Rainbows and On The Edge."
The Wire

Inspired by a dream, Anıl Eraslan sets out to make a documentary
about Istanbul's free improvisation music scene.

Featuring his musician friends who are invited to recite their sonic dreams and stage them
as musical performances,the film evolves into a phantasmagoric portrait of Istanbul,
shifting between dream and reality.

Sound Dreams of Istanbul • • • Documentary • • • 70' • • • DCP / Color / Digital & Super 8

Screenings in festivals & venues

Istanbul Film Festival / Istanbul, April 2025

Istanbul Modern Art Museum / Istanbul, May 2025
Documentarist / Istanbul, June 2025
Darağaç / Izmir, June 2025
GMEA Dans l’Écart / Toulouse, July 2025
Les Habitées / Strasbourg, July 2025
See The Sound / Cologne, July 2025

TBA / Ayvalık, September 2025
Film & Music Festival / İzmir, September 2025

A-Minor / Halle, September 2025

TBA / Tampere, October 2025

TBA / Bordeaux, November 2025

TBA / Berlin, November 2025

Kotetsi / Thessaloniki, November 2025

Green Bridge / Trikala, November 2025

F451 / Ioannina, November 2025

Nekubi / Kavala, November 2025

KET / Athens, November 2025

Fragment / Metz, December 2025

Kunsthalle / Mannheim, January 2026

La Fraternelle / Saint-Claude, April 2026

"The approach of the film, which elegantly threads in snatches of Zoom conversations and off-screen chat, falls somewhere between interview, re-enactment and ethnographic observation, with faint echoes of Jeremy Marre projects such as Chasing Rainbows and On The Edge." The Wire

Inspired by a dream, Anıl Eraslan sets out to make a documentary about Istanbul's free improvisation music scene.

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Featuring his musician friends who are invited to recite their sonic dreams and stage them as musical performances,the film evolves into a phantasmagoric portrait of Istanbul, shifting between dream and reality.

Sound Dreams of Istanbul • • • Documentary • • • 70' • • • DCP / Color / Digital & Super 8

Screenings in festivals & venues

"The approach of the film, which elegantly threads in snatches of Zoom conversations and off-screen chat, falls somewhere between interview, re-enactment and ethnographic observation, with faint echoes of Jeremy Marre projects such as Chasing Rainbows and On The Edge."
The Wire

Inspired by a dream, Anıl Eraslan sets out to make a documentary
about Istanbul's free improvisation music scene.

Featuring his musician friends who are invited to recite their sonic dreams and stage them
as musical performances,the film evolves into a phantasmagoric portrait of Istanbul,
shifting between dream and reality.