Dance directorial debut kicks off Istanbul Festival

Actor Charles Dance is among the celebrities attending the Istanbul Film Festival. He attended the opening ceremony to present his film “Ladies in Lavender”, his first attempt at directing.

A screening of the film formally kicked off the festival. It stars Dame Judi Dench and Dame Maggie Smith as two spinsters in a post-Second World War British fishing village who take in a mysterious young Polish man they find half-drowned on a beach.