NISI MASA is a European network of young cinema associations, created in 2001 and currently present in 26 countries including both European Union and neighbouring states such as Albania, Macedonia, Kosovo, Turkey, Russia and Ukraine.

The non-profit organisation is supported, amongst others, by the European Union: Youth, Civil Society and MEDIA Programme, the Council of Europe, the European Cultural Foundation, the Allianz Cultural Foundation, Fondation de France and the French Ministry of Youth, Sports and Associative Life.

The organization’s main aims are to discover new film talents, to develop cross-cultural audiovisual projects, to foster European awareness through cinema and to create a platform of discussion and collaboration for young European filmmakers. To this end, NISI MASA undertakes different kinds of projects, including scriptwriting and filmmaking workshops, screenings, cinema-related meetings (conferences, seminars, etc.) and publications.

For this year’s NISA MASA workshop at Cannes, a group of young journalists from Turkey, France, Italy and Estonia dove deep into the Camera d’Or and Short Films competitions, and the end result is the 90-page Nisimazine that you can read here. The ICS is proud that one of its members, Ali Deniz Şensöz of the Turkish magazine Altyazı Monthly Cinema, is a contributing author to this rich compilation of reviews, articles and interviews on the young filmmakers competing at Cannes.