France has selected Mustang as its submission for the Oscars' best foreign-language film. Deniz Gamze Erguven’s drama, which took Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight Europa Cinemas award, follows five Turkish sisters who have their basic freedoms stripped from them as they become women.
Cannes’ Palme d’Or winner Dheepan, directed by Jacques Audiard, and Stephane Brize’s The Measure of a Man (La Loi de Marche), which took home the Cannes best actor prize for Vincent Lindon, had been considered frontrunners for the selection.
Mavi Boncuk | The Awards (11/14/2015)
56th THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
November 6-15, 2015
The International Jury of the 56th Thessaloniki International Film Festival comprised of:
Michèle Ray-Gavras, Producer, France - Jury President
Corneliu Porumboiu, Director, Screenwriter, Romania
Jay Weissberg, Film critic, Journalist, USA
Elise Jalladeau, Producer, France
Efthimis Filippou, Screenwriter, Writer, Greece
THE AWARDS
Best Feature Film Award - Golden Alexander Theo Angelopoulos
HRÚTAR (RAMS) By GRÍMUR HÁKONARSON, Producer Grímar Jónsson, Screenwriter Grímur Hákonarson, Iceland, 2015
For a film in the Balkan Survey[1] section
MUSTANG By DENIZ GAMZE ERGÜVEN, Producer CG Cinéma, France, Screenwriters Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Alice Winocour, France, Turkey, Germany, Qatar, 2015
[1] For 22 years the Thessaloniki International Film Festival’s Balkan Survey section, curated by Dimitri Kerkinos, has been showcasing the best samples of the Balkan area’s film production. Well-known directors, as well as promising newcomers in their exceptional debuts, the majority of which are women, tackle a variety of challenging social themes in this year’s edition. Balkan Survey also celebrates the work of Romanian auteur Mircea Daneliuc, one of the most important and influential filmmakers, whose work in Romania during the 80s and post-communism era remains largely unacknowledged outside his country. Daneliuc will be in Thessaloniki to introduce his films to the Festival’s audience.
THE SECTION ALSO INCLUDED Motherland by Senem Tüzen (a Turkish-Greek production, winner of the 53rd TIFF’s Film Market Crossroads award) depicts a tense mother-daughter relationship that reveals the gap between the traditional and modern lifestyle in contemporary Turkey.
BalKan Survey Shorts
Tuesday (Ziya Demirel), Turkey, France
Tuesday (Ziya Demirel), Turkey, France
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