Mavi Boncuk |Directorial duo Cagla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti’s drama Sibel[1]and Tolga Karacelik’s quirky road movie Butterflies were among the top winners at the Adana International Film Festival (Sept 22-30) over the weekend.
Sibel – revolving around an ostracised, mute young woman living in a mountain village whose life is transformed when she helps an injured fugitive in hiding - won the festival’s Golden Boll for best film in the national competition focused on Turkish cinema.
Damla Sönmez won best actress for her performance as the titular Sibel, while Emin Gürsoy clinched best supporting actor for his performance as the fugitive.
It is the second time Sönmez has been feted at Adana. She previously won the best actress Golden Boll in 2014 for her performance in Across The Sea as an expat lawyer who returns home from the US to close old wounds before giving birth to her first child.
The other big winner in the national competition was Tolga Karaçelik’s Butterflies, about three mixed up siblings who bond during a trip to their home village at the request of an estranged father.
The film, which premiered earlier this year at Sundance where it clinched the World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize, was feted with the Golden Boll for best director as well as the festival’s audience award and best screenplay prize.
Mahmut Fazil Coskun’s dark comedy The Announcement won the festival’s second prize, the Yilmaz Guney award.
The prize, created in the memory of the Palme d’Or-winning, dissident director who hailed from the city of Adana, is usually awarded to first or second features, but unusually this year went to a third film.
The film also clinched the best cinematography award for Krum Rodriguez as well as a separate best director prize awarded by the directors’ guild jury.
Based on real-life events surrounding a 1963 coup d’état, The Announcement originally premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September where it won a special jury prize in the Horizons section.
Coskun previously won Adana’s Golden Boll for best film in 2013 with his debut feature Yozgat Blues. The Announcement also competed in Adana’s international competition where it won the Special Jury Award.
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The full list of winners
National competition
Best film: Sibel
Best director: Tolga Karaçelik (Butterflies)
Yılmaz Güney Award: The Announcement (Mahmut Fazıl Coşkun)
Adana Audience Award: Butterflies
Special Jury Award: Insiders (Hüseyin Karabey)
Best Screenplay Award: Butterflies (Tolga Karaçelik)
Best Actress Award: Damla Sönmez (Sibel)
Best Actor Awards: Caner Şahin and Yiğit Ege Writer (Brothers)
Best Music Award: Mehmet Güreli (Four-cornered Triangle)
Best Director of Photography Award: Krum Rodriguez (The Announcement)
Best Art Director Award: Tuba Erdem (Four-cornered Triangle)
Best Editing Award: Naim Kanat (The Pigeon Thieves)
Best Actress Award in the Supporting Role: Gizem Erman Soysaldı (Insiders)
Best Actor Award in Supporting Role: Emin Gürsoy (Sibel)
Türkan Şoray Hope Young Woman Award: Gözde Mutluer (Brothers)
Hope Young Actor Award: Seyit Nizam Yılmaz (The Pigeon Thieves)
SİYAD Best Film Award: Banu Sıvacı (The Pigeon)
FİLMYÖN Best Director Award: Mahmut Fazıl Coşkun (The Announcement)
International competition
Best film: Burning (Lee Chang-dong)
Special Jury Award: The Announcement (Mahmut Fazıl Coşkun)
Special Mention: I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History as Barbarians (Radu Jude)
[1] Sibel
by Çagla Zencirci, Guillaume Giovanetti
France, Germany, Luxembourg, Turkey, 2018, STC
Cast: Damla Sönmez, Erkan Kolçak Kôstendil, Emin Gûrsoy, Elit Iscan, Meral Çetinkaya
A young mute woman living as an outcast in a remote, superstitious mountain village near Turkey’s Black Sea finds her true voice when she comes to the aid of a mysterious injured fugitive, in this poetic fairy tale–inspired film from from Franco-Turkish directing duo Guillaume Giovanetti and Çagla Zencirci.
Çagla Zencirci was born in Ankara, Turkey, in 1976.
Along with Guillaume Giovanetti (Lyon, 1978), they form a directorial duo based in Paris and Istanbul, and they directed several short films in the Middle-East, Europe, Central Asia and Far-East, (among which Ata, France/Turkey 2008 and Six, Japan/France 2009) selected in more than 200 Festivals worldwide (Berlinale, Locarno, Rotterdam, Tampere, FIDMarseille, Clermont-Ferrand, etc.) and awarded more than 40 times.
In 2012, the co-directors achieved Noor, their first feature film (France/Turkey/Pakistan), which they developed in France’s Moulin d’Andé and shot in Pakistan thanks to the support of the MEDIA Program. The film premiered at the ACID section of the 65th Cannes International Film Festival 2012, competed in the 47th Karlovy Vary Film Festival, was selected in Busan IFF, and was awarded several Grand Prix (Paris’ “Chéries-Chéris” Festival; Dieppe, France; New York Asian Film Festival; Bogota, Colombia; Missisauga, Canada) and many other Awards (Rome, Milan, Vancouver, Dublin, Toulouse, etc.). After more than 80 invitations from Festivals worldwide, the film has been theatrically released in France in april 2014, with a very good reception from Critics and Audience.
Çagla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti have lately completed their second feature film Ningen (Japan/Turkey/France), they shot in Japan and wrote in a residence at the prestigious Villa Kujoyama, Kyoto. The Film Premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival 2013, and then received several Awards (Best Film, Best Actor and Best Cinematography) in Dublin, Ireland, the Best Film Award in Zadar, Croatia, and a Special Jury Mention in Tours Asian Film Festival in France. It is currently being selected in Festivals all around the World, before its theatrical release in France and Japan in spring 2015.
The filmmaking duo is currently developing their third feature film, to be shot in Turkey.
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