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The festival ran from 10 to 18 October under the organization of the Antalya Municipality and Antalya Culture and Arts Foundation, or AKSAV.
Awards[1] | 51st International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival
The internationally renowned Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami has been honored at the 2014 International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival in Turkey.Kiarostami was awarded with Life Achievement Prize in Art at the Turkish festival. Iran’s leading filmmaker attended the year’s festival to hold advanced filmmaking workshops.
The festival also presented a special award to world-famous action star Jean Claude Van Damme, who was the guest of the ceremony.
Veteran actress Hülya Koçyiğit was given a painting of the festival’s poster by the director of the festival, Elif Dağdeviren.
Kutluğ Ataman’s “Kuzu” (The Lamb) was the big winner at the 51st International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, picking up the best film award at the closing ceremony of Turkey’s premier film competition. This year the best director award of the festival was presented to Onur Ünlü for “İtirazım Var.” The national feature film award was shared by “Oflu Hocayı Aramak” (O.H.A) and “Sivas,” which has already attracted international plaudits.
Ataman will receive 350,000 Turkish lira along with the award and Unlu 75,000 Turkish lira.
Nesrin Cavadzade, who plays the character Medine in the film, won the best actress award, two years after receiving another award at the Golden Orange.
The best actor honor was shared between Serkan Keskin and Feyyaz Duman. Keskin won for his performance in “İtirazım Var” (Let’s Sin) while Duman won the award for his role in “Annemin Şarkısı” (My Mother’s Song).
“I dedicate this award to all children of the Sinjar Mountain, who were left to die of thirst under 45-50 Celsius degrees, which is the worst way of dying in the world,” said Keskin in reference to the August attack by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Yazidi settlements near Sinjar (also known as Şengal), prompting tens of thousands to flee to Sinjar Mountain, where many succumbed to the elements.
The best supporting actress award went to Nursel Köse for her performance in “Kuzu,” and the best supporting actor award was given to Aziz Çapkurt for his role in “Annemin Şarkısı.”
“Today many peoples and faiths in Kobane are struggling to build their own free future. This is why Kobane is not only a name in geography but it is, at the same time, an idea and ideas do not fall. I greet all of you as a filmmaker of the world and Turkey,” said Çapkurt.
The Behlül Dal Special Jury Prize was given to Doğan İzci for his role in “Sivas,” as well as Sıla Lara Cantürk and Mert Taştan for their role in “Kuzu.”
SİYAD Awards
The Cinema Writers Association (SİYAD) National Feature Film Award was presented to Ataman’s “Kuzu” while the SİYAD International Feature Film Award went to Chaitanya Tamhane’s “Court.” [2]
Nazlı Eda Noyan and Dağhan Celayir’s “Bir Fincan Türk Kahvesi” (A Cup of Turkish Coffee) won the best short film award at the event.
Hungarian director Kornel Mundruczo’s “White God” won the international competition audience award as Ayhan Sonyürek’s “İyi Biri” (A Good Fellow) won the national competition audience award.
Ömer Uğur won the best director award given by the Film Directors Association for his film “Guruldayan Kapler” (Rumbling Hearts). At the same time, director Ertem Göreç, who came to the stage to present the award, criticized abusive language in films.
[1] The awards at the 51st International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival were as follows:
Best Film: Kuzu/Lamb (Kutlug Ataman)
Best First Film: Annemin Sarkısı/The Song of My Mother (Erol Mintas )
Best Director: Onur Unlu (Itirazım Var/I Have an Objection)
Best Script: Onur Unlu (Itirazım Var/I Have an Objection)
Best Music: Basar Under (Annemin Sarkisi/The Song of My Mother)
Best Actress: Nesrin Cavadzade (Kuzu/Lamb)
Best Actor: Serkan Keskin (Itirazım Var/I Have an Objection) -
Feyyaz Duman (Annemin Sarkısı/The Song of My Mother)
Best Supporting Actress: Nursel Kose (Kuzu/Lamb)
Best Supporting Actor: Aziz Capkurt (Annemin Sarkısı/The Song of My Mother)
Best Montage: Yorgos Mavropsaridis (Sivas/Sivas)
Best Arts Director: Osman Ozcan (Neden Tarkovski Olamıyorum/Why Can't I Be Tarkovsky)
Best International Feature Film: Test (Alexander Kott, Russia)
Special Award: Jean Claude Van Damme
Lifetime Achievement Award: Abbas Kiarostami
[2] Chaitanya Tamhane’s debut feature film Court won the Turkish Film Critics’ Association (SIYAD) award for the Best Film at 51st International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival on October 18.
Court had its world premiere in the Orizzonti section of the Venice Film Festival this year, where it won two awards – “Lion of the future” award for the Best Debut Film of the festival and Best Film in Orizzonti section.
The film, that is an exploration of the Indian judiciary, had received the Hubert Bals fund for script and project development in fall 2012 and was part of NFDC Film Bazaar co-production market in 2012.
READ CHAITANYA TAMHANE’S INTERVIEW HERE
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