"“Sakıp Sabancı Lifetime Achievement Award” is awarded to Gülriz Sururi in 2011.Among works performed during the festival are Chinghiz Aitmatov’s unforgettable "My Poplar in a Red Scarf" by the Gabit Musirepov Kazakhstan State Theater Child and Youth; "Electra" by the National Theatre Radu Stanca Sibiu from Romania; "Enigma Variations" by the Vakhtangov Theater from Russia; "The Crime of Cura Tato" by the Plankton Theater Collective from Chile, "Anna Karenina" by the Anzelika Cholina Dance Theater from Lithuania and "Malaya" by the Close Act Theater from the Netherlands.