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The line-up has been announced for the National Film Competition of the 57th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, will commence on Oct. 3 in the southern province of Antalya for which a total of 47 feature films, 206 short films and 46 documentary film submissions were received.
The selection line-up is as follows:
Fikret Reyhan’s “Fractured” (Çatlak), Tankut Kılınç’s “Dersaadet Apartment” (Dersaadet Apartmanı), Nesimi Yitik’s “It’s All About Peace and Harmony” (Dirlik Düzenlik), Derviş Zaim’s “Flashdrive” (Flaşbellek), Orçun Benli’s “Weasel” (Gelincik), Erdem Tepegöz’s “In the Shadows” (Gölgeler İçinde), Azra Deniz Okyay’s “Ghosts” (Hayaletler), Tunç Şahin’s “Two Types of People” (İnsanlar İkiye Ayrılır), Atalay Taşdiken’s “Red Snow”(Kar Kırmızı), Barış Gördağ and Yasin Çetin’s “Fragrance” (Koku), Ferit Karol’s “Penny Bank” (Kumbara) and Reis Çelik’s “Food for a Funeral” (Ölü Ekmeği).
The jury for the National Documentary Film Competition, for which 10 titles have been selected, is made up of Bingöl Elmas, Köken Ergun and Kurtuluş Özgen, while the 12 shortlisted films in the National Short Film Competition will be judged by Cemre Ebuzziya, Müge Turan and Ömür Atay.
Ercan Kesal to Chair National Feature Film Competition Jury
The jury presiding over the National Feature Film Competition of the Festival—an event supported by the Turkish Ministry of Culture & Tourism—will this year be chaired by Ercan Kesal, a multi-faceted filmmaker and writer who has won multiple national and international awards for his work. Kesal began his film career as an actor in the feature film, Distant (Uzak), before diversifying into screenwriting with Three Monkeys (Üç Maymun) and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Bir Zamanlar Anadolu’da). He has delivered memorable performances in a plethora of films—among them Vavien, Hair (Saç), Yozgat Blues, I Am Not Him (Ben O Değilim), Butterflies (Kelebekler) and Passed by Censor (Görülmüştür)—but has more recently moved into the director’s chair. To date, he has directed the short documentary Gone with the Hazelnuts (Fındıktan Sonra) and the feature film, You Know Him (Nasipse Adayız). The 12 competition films will be judged by four other jury members, who have been named as: screenwriter, journalist, author and actor, Gülse Birsel, who has won recognition for the television show, g.a.g., the television sitcom, The European Side (Avrupa Yakası)—which she wrote and starred in—for the TV series, Dust and Ashes (Yalan Dünya) and The Jet Set (Jet Sosyete), and for the hit film In the Family (Aile Arasında), which she wrote; director and screenwriter, Kıvanç Sezer, who picked up the Golden Orange Best First Feature Award and Dr. Avni Tolunay Special Jury Prize for his multi-award-winning debut film, My Father’s Wings (Babamın Kanatları), and presented La Belle Indifference (Küçük Şeyler), part two of an ongoing trilogy, at last year’s Festival where he once again won the Dr. Avni Tolunay Special Jury Prize; actor and voice-over artist, Taner Birsel, who has appeared in countless films, including A Run for Money (Kaç Para Kaç), Elephants and Grass (Filler ve Çimen), Confession (İtiraf), Cars of the Revolution (Devrim Arabaları), Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Bir Zamanlar Anadolu’da) and Sideway (Yol Kenarı), as well as more than 40 productions for the Istanbul State Theater; and Zeynep Oral, the co-founder of MilliyetArts magazine, President of PEN Turkey, journalist and columnist for Cumhuriyet newspaper, author and theater critic.
Short Film and Documentary Juries Unveiled
The jury of this year’s National Documentary Film Competition, for which 10 films have been shortlisted from 46 submissions, is comprised of: Bingöl Elmas, an author and director of many outstanding documentaries; Köken Ergun, a filmmaker who has earned international plaudits for his short films, documentaries and video work; and Kurtuluş Özgen, an academic and producer-director of award-winning documentaries. Turning to the Festival’s National Short Film Competition, the 12 titles selected from 206 submissions, will be considered by the following jury members: Cemre Ebuzziya, an actor who starred in last year’s A Tale of Three Sisters (Kız Kardeşler), Chronology (Kronoloji) and In Between (İki Arada); Müge Turan, a film critic and Film Curator for Istanbul Modern Cinema; and Ömür Atay, a director who won multiple awards for his most recent film, Brothers (Kardeşler), which world premiered at the 53rd Karlovy Vary Film Festival.
The head of the festival, Ahmet Boyacıoğlu, announced that the festival films will be screened outdoors at the Atatürk Cultural Center.
“We will organize a different festival by using both open-air cinemas and internet facilities,” he said.
Stating that film crews and juries will be invited to Antalya, Boyacıoğlu said that juries will watch movies without an audience, film crews will greet the public to open-air screenings and press conferences will be held the next day.
Boyacıoğlu reminded that cultural events were canceled in many countries due to the coronavirus and stated that the Istanbul and Ankara film festivals were postponed, too.
“A very important feature that makes Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival different from other festivals is that it has its separate venues. This is a huge advantage. Aspendos and Perge halls in Atatürk Cultural Center belong to the Antalya Metropolitan Municipality. Besides, there are suitable areas in Kültürpark that can be converted into an open-air cinema.”
Explaining that they have three main goals in the Golden Orange Film Festival, Boyacıoğlu said, “To promote the films produced in our country, to make Antalya a center where everyone wants to shoot movies and to offer a week full of cinema to Antalya residents with movies and guests.”
He said that this year they have a condition for films to compete in the feature, documentary and short feature film categories that they should make their first screening in Turkey, adding, “Short filmmakers competing in the Istanbul Film Festival asked us to remove this condition for this year due to the pandemic. Later, the same request came from documentary filmmakers. Our answer was ‘you have already been selected for a festival. Open the way for other directors, let their films also compete in Antalya.’ Last year, there were 10 films in the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival National Feature Film Competition. Later, six of these films were in the competition of the Istanbul Film Festival and five of them at the Ankara Film Festival. In a country, where nearly 200 feature films are produced every year, it is of no good for the same films to compete in all festivals.”
Reminding that the Cannes Film Festival could not be held this year due to the pandemic, Boyacıoğlu said, “The festival management announced a list of 56 films and posted the ‘Cannes label’ on these films and gave the message to the whole world, ‘If we could hold the festival, we would show these films.’ Twenty of these films were made in France. The concept of ‘international festival’ is disappearing in the world. Every festival tries to highlight the films of their own country and this is the right thing. Festivals in our country should include more local films in their programs, which ensures their recognition both in our country and in the world. Therefore, ‘the first screening in Turkey’ condition is the right decision.”
The 12 films shortlisted to compete in the National Feature Film Competition were chosen by a pre-selection committee consisting of film critics Sevin Okyay, Mehmet Açar, and Ahmet Gürata, who is also the festival advisor apart from academic and film critic.
This year, a new eligibility criterion was introduced to the National Feature Film Competition requiring Turkish premiere status. As a consequence, all films selected for competition will screen for the first time in Turkey to audiences in Antalya. Additionally, nine of the shortlisted titles will have their world premiere at the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival.
Films selected for the National Feature Film Competition will compete in 16 categories, including for the Best Film Award, the Avni Tolunay Special Jury Prize and Behlül Dal Best First Feature Award.
The Cahide Sonku Award, introduced last year to raise the profile of women working in the film industry, will again be awarded to a female filmmaker for one of the competition films either in front of or behind the camera.
All awards will be presented at the closing and awards ceremony on Oct. 10.
Also, a pre-selection committee has drawn up the names of the titles shortlisted for the National Short Film and National Documentary Film Competitions. Some 12 films were selected out of the 206 submissions received for this year’s National Short Film Competition.
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