Antalya IFF 2018 | Awards

“The festival films drew a huge turnout. We searched for peace, we became refugees and we came together with 1,200 guests. Some 34,900 people watched the films,” said Menderes Türel, mayor of the Antalya Metropolitan Municipality, which hosted the festival.

Mavi Boncuk |

Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s film “Three Faces” has won the Best Film award at the 55th International Antalya Film Festival.

The festival’s closing ceremony took place at the Glass Pyramid Congress and Exhibition Center on Oct. 5.

“Three Faces” outperformed 10 other films for the award.[1]

Samal Yeslyamova, appearing in the Russian-Kazakhstani drama film directed by Sergey Dvortsevoy, won the award for Best Actress.

Thirteen-year-old Zain al-Rafeea, was awarded Best Actor for the Lebanese film “Capernaum.”

The award for Best Director was given to Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda, for directing the film “Shoplifters.”

Iconic Turkish musician İbrahim Tatlıses received the Honor Award.

Tatlıses made his first appearence on screen with “Ayağında Kundura” in 1978, which is the name of his first album published in 1977. After releasing several hit albums in the 80s, his popularity earned him more apperances on-screen. Throughout his movie career, Tatlıses directed 20 movies, wrote three movies and acted in 36 movies.

Turkish comedian, screenwriter and actor Cem Yılmaz and acclaimed Turkish director Ferzan Özpetek were also given the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s festival.

The honorary awards of the festival were presented to Hungarian director Bela Tarr, Turkish actress Itır Esen and producer Ömer Vargı.

Turkish female directors and producers also come together under the roof of “Women with Movie Cameras” platform.

Founded by Turkish female film industry members, the platform members who are joined by female directors and producers from Middle-East, Asia and Balkans, had a discussion panel about “equality of opportunity” and “sexual harrasments in movie sets at Anltaya Film Forum as a part of the 55th Antalya International Film Festival. Founder Burçak Üzen explained their goals:


“We are hand-to-hand because we will create a network and a bond all around the world to support each other. We want equality of opportunity because we are against the discrimination both in our sets and in film industry, not only for ourselves. We believe there must be equal share of fund resources and festivals. We say you will hear more from us because we will not be silent especially sexual harrasments and mobbings in movie sets. We are careful about masculine phrases and discriminative, sexist, scornful representation of women in our movies. And we are here to always say “You can do it”. We are here to be the support you need when you are afraid and when you need”. Europe’s biggest women platform EWA (European Women’s Audiovisiul Network) also announced their support for “Women with Movie Cameras”.

[1] 3 Faces (Persian: Se rokh – سه رخ‎) is a 2018 Iranian drama film directed by Jafar Panahi and starring Behnaz Jafari and Panahi as themselves. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. At Cannes, Panahi and co-writer Nader Saeivar won the award for Best Screenplay


Behnaz Jafari, a popular Iranian actress, searches for a young girl in northwestern Iran with her friend Jafar Panahi, a director, after seeing a video of the girl asking for help to leave her conservative family.