This special guest-edited issue of New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film explores the dialogues between Turkish and Turkish-German filmmakers and the various cross-cultural exchanges that inform their work on the level of creation, production, distribution and reception, as well as dialogues between film scholars from different national and cultural backgrounds - Turkish, German, British and American - all of whom have extensively published on the cinemas under consideration in this volume. The title 'Turkish-German dialogues on screen' also pertains to the dialogic tendencies, theorised by Mikhail Bakhtin and Kobena Mercer, in Turkish-German film.