18th International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival
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The 18th International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival was a film festival
held in Adana
, Turkey
from September 17 to 25, 2011. Cash prizes totalling 936,000 Turkish Liras, the highest amount given by a film festival in Turkey, were awarded for all catagories, for the first time in Turkey, in three competetive sections, nearly 220 films were shown both in and out of competition in a selection described by critic Ali Koca as "one of the event’s strongest in recent years," following disapointment with the previous year's hastily rescheduled event, and there were also a range of lectures, workshops and other events, including the 1st International Golden Boll Film Congress, said to be the first to be organised during a film festival.
This edition of the International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival, which was founded in 1969 and is organised by the Adana Metropolitan City Municipality and accredited by FIPRESCI, was the first to accept digital submissions from filmmakers for its national feature competition. It began with an opening gala at the Merkez Park open-air theater on September 17 at which speeches were made by Adana Metropolitan City Municipality Deputy Head Zihni Aldırmaz and Development Minister Cevdet Yılmaz
, Lifetime Achievement Awards were presented to Turkish actors Kadir İnanır
and Nebahat Çehre
, and Turkish filmmaker Ali Özgentürk
, and a concert was given by the trio of Mazhar-Fuat-Özkan. Turkish actors and actresses Nuri Alço, Yavuz Karakaş, Yılmaz Köksal and Yusuf Sezgin were among those who toured the city in old style roadsters as part of the annual "Love Cortege" while the annual Solidarity Night for Cinema took place at Mimar Sinan Amphitheatre. The festival closed with an awards ceremony hosted by academic Özlem Gürses and actor Murat Başoğlu at the Adana Merkez Park Amphitheater.
The festival also played host to the 1st International Golden Boll Film Congress, coordinated by Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Fine Arts Film Design Department and headed by Honorary Presidents Ö. Lütfi Akad, at the Adana Seyhan Hotel from September 21 to 24 on the theme of Turkish Cinema: Views from Turkey and the World, and the Adana Cinema Museum, also run by the Adana Metropolitan City Municipality, was officially opened in a restored historic mansion on Şeyhan Street.
who passed away shortly before the start of the festival.
The festival also curated retrospectives of the recipients films and comissioned books from film critic Burçak Evren about their respective careers.
, who headed the National Feature Film Competition Jury, received a retrospective of six of his works.
Grand Prix
-winning film, as well as an exhibition of his photographic works.
.
were among the panel for the related discussion at the Metropolitan Municipality Theater Hall.
Film festival
A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality. More and more often film festivals show part of their films to the public by adding outdoor movie screenings...
held in Adana
Adana
Adana is a city in southern Turkey and a major agricultural and commercial center. The city is situated on the Seyhan River, 30 kilometres inland from the Mediterranean, in south-central Anatolia...
, Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
from September 17 to 25, 2011. Cash prizes totalling 936,000 Turkish Liras, the highest amount given by a film festival in Turkey, were awarded for all catagories, for the first time in Turkey, in three competetive sections, nearly 220 films were shown both in and out of competition in a selection described by critic Ali Koca as "one of the event’s strongest in recent years," following disapointment with the previous year's hastily rescheduled event, and there were also a range of lectures, workshops and other events, including the 1st International Golden Boll Film Congress, said to be the first to be organised during a film festival.
This edition of the International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival, which was founded in 1969 and is organised by the Adana Metropolitan City Municipality and accredited by FIPRESCI, was the first to accept digital submissions from filmmakers for its national feature competition. It began with an opening gala at the Merkez Park open-air theater on September 17 at which speeches were made by Adana Metropolitan City Municipality Deputy Head Zihni Aldırmaz and Development Minister Cevdet Yılmaz
Cevdet Yılmaz
Cevdet Yılmaz is a Turkish politician.After completing high school in Bingöl in 1983, Yılmaz graduated from the METU Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Public Administration. He graduated with honors in 1988...
, Lifetime Achievement Awards were presented to Turkish actors Kadir İnanır
Kadir Inanir
Kadir İnanır is a popular Turkish film actor and director.- Biography :İnanır was born in 1949 in Fatsa, a town in Ordu province of Turkey. He acted in forty-three films since 1967 and appeared on television in "Bütün Çocuklarım" as Ali Yahya in 2004...
and Nebahat Çehre
Nebahat Çehre
-Early life and family:Nebahat Çehre was born as Hilal Nebahat Çehre on 15 March, 1945, in Samsun, a city off the Black Sea in northern Turkey. Çehre is of Georgian origin from her father's side, Izzet Çehre, who was a lawyer, and her mother, Müzeyyen, was a housewife...
, and Turkish filmmaker Ali Özgentürk
Ali Özgentürk
Ali Özgentürk is a renowned Turkish film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was born in 1947 in Adana, Turkey. After studying philosophy and sociology at Istanbul University, he became involved in theater, as an actor, director, and playwright. He founded Istanbul's first street theater...
, and a concert was given by the trio of Mazhar-Fuat-Özkan. Turkish actors and actresses Nuri Alço, Yavuz Karakaş, Yılmaz Köksal and Yusuf Sezgin were among those who toured the city in old style roadsters as part of the annual "Love Cortege" while the annual Solidarity Night for Cinema took place at Mimar Sinan Amphitheatre. The festival closed with an awards ceremony hosted by academic Özlem Gürses and actor Murat Başoğlu at the Adana Merkez Park Amphitheater.
The festival also played host to the 1st International Golden Boll Film Congress, coordinated by Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Fine Arts Film Design Department and headed by Honorary Presidents Ö. Lütfi Akad, at the Adana Seyhan Hotel from September 21 to 24 on the theme of Turkish Cinema: Views from Turkey and the World, and the Adana Cinema Museum, also run by the Adana Metropolitan City Municipality, was officially opened in a restored historic mansion on Şeyhan Street.
Awards
The festival's Best Actor award was dedicated in honour of Adana-born actor Cem ErmanCem Erman
Cem Erman, born Süleyman Faik Durgun was a Turkish film actor. His father's side was originally from Mersin and his mother's side was from Halep. He had also two more brothers and sisters. He was the youngest in the family. In 2007 he married Sevim Demiroğlu. Shortly after their marriage they got...
who passed away shortly before the start of the festival.
- Best Film: The Extremely Tragic Story of Celal Tan and His FamilyThe Extremely Tragic Story of Celal Tan and His FamilyThe Extremely Tragic Story of Celal Tan and His Family is a 2011 Turkish comedy-drama film, written and directed by Onur Ünlü, starring Selçuk Yöntem as a widowed constitutional law professor, whose life takes a turn for the worse when he remarries to a university student, whose life he has saved...
directed by Onur Ünlü - Best Director: Cemil Ağacıkoğlu for SeptemberSeptember (2011 film)September is a 2011 Turkish drama film, written and directed by Cemil Ağacıkoğlu, starring Turgay Aydın and Görkem Yeltan as an introverted couple who encounter a maltreated young woman...
- Best Screenplay: Onur Ünlü for The Extremely Tragic Story of Celal Tan and His Family
- Best Actor: Durukan Ordu for Future Lasts ForeverFuture Lasts ForeverFuture Lasts Forever is a 2011 Turkish drama film, written and directed by Özcan Alper, starring Gaye Gürsel as an Istanbul music student who travels to south-east Turkey to record tradiyional music and confront her own past...
- Best Supporting Actor: Tuna Orhan for A Serious Matter
- Best Actress: Hatice AslanHatice AslanHatice Aslan is a Turkish actress who starred inNuri Bilge Ceylan's 2008 film Üç Maymun , for which Ceylan won the best director award at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. Aslan was seen as a strong contender for the best actress award at the festival.- References :...
for The Body and Görkem Yeltan for September - Best Supporting Actress: Şeyla Halis for The Body
- Most Promising Newcomer (male): Hakan Kurtaş for The Body and Gün Koper for Love and Revolution
- Most Promising Newcomer (female): Deniz Denker for Love and Revolution
- Best Editing: Taner Sarf for September
- Best Art Director: Adalı Aksoy for Love and Revolution and Hidden Lives
- Jury Award for Best Ensemble Cast Performance: The Extremely Tragic Story of Celal Tan and His Family
- Best Music: Mustafa Biber for Future Lasts Forever
- Best Cinematography: Feza Çaldıran for Future Lasts Forever
- Best Sound Effects: Burak Topalakçı for Losers' ClubLosers' ClubLosers' Club is a 2011 Turkish comedy-drama film, co-written and directed by Tolga Örnek based on a true story, starring Nejat İşler and Yiğit Özşener as the co-hosts of a contorversial mid-90s Istanbul radio show...
and September - Special Jury Award: Love and Revolution directed by F. Serkan Acar
- Adana Audience Award: Simurg directed by Ruhi Karadağ
- Yılmaz Güney Award: Future Lasts Forever directed by Özcan Alper
- Turkish Film Critics Association (SİYAD) Best Film Award: Future Lasts Forever directed by Özcan Alper
Honorary Awards
Three Lifetime Achievement Awards were presented at the opening ceremony.- Lifetime Achievement Award: Kadir İnanırKadir InanirKadir İnanır is a popular Turkish film actor and director.- Biography :İnanır was born in 1949 in Fatsa, a town in Ordu province of Turkey. He acted in forty-three films since 1967 and appeared on television in "Bütün Çocuklarım" as Ali Yahya in 2004...
(Turkish actor) - Lifetime Achievement Award: Nebahat ÇehreNebahat Çehre-Early life and family:Nebahat Çehre was born as Hilal Nebahat Çehre on 15 March, 1945, in Samsun, a city off the Black Sea in northern Turkey. Çehre is of Georgian origin from her father's side, Izzet Çehre, who was a lawyer, and her mother, Müzeyyen, was a housewife...
(Turkish actor) - Lifetime Achievement Award: Ali ÖzgentürkAli ÖzgentürkAli Özgentürk is a renowned Turkish film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was born in 1947 in Adana, Turkey. After studying philosophy and sociology at Istanbul University, he became involved in theater, as an actor, director, and playwright. He founded Istanbul's first street theater...
(Turkish producer, director & screenwriter)
The festival also curated retrospectives of the recipients films and comissioned books from film critic Burçak Evren about their respective careers.
National Feature Film Competition
Fourteen Turkish films made in the preceding year were selected by the Pre-Evaluation Board to compete in the festival’s National Feature Film Competition.National Feature Film Competition Jury
- Jury Head: Derviş ZaimDervis ZaimDerviş Zaim is a Turkish Cypriot filmmaker and novelist, who has twice won the Golden Orange for Best Director for Elephants and Grass and Dot ; Golden Oranges for Best Film and Best Screenplay for Somersault in a Coffin ; and the Yunus Nadi literary prize for his debut novel Ares in Wonderland...
(Turkish Cypriot director) - Beste Bereket (Turkish actress)
- Bülent Vardar (Turkish author & academician)
- Ebru Ceylan (Turkish screenwriter & actress)
- Selim Demirdelen (Turkish director & screenwriter)
- Taner BirselTaner BirselTaner Birsel is a Turkish film actor. He has appeared in twelve films since 1995. He starred in The Confession, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival....
(Turkish actor) - Yekta Kopan (Turkish author)
National Feature Film Competition Selection
- A Serious Matter directed by İsa Yıldız & Murat Onbul
- Future Lasts ForeverFuture Lasts ForeverFuture Lasts Forever is a 2011 Turkish drama film, written and directed by Özcan Alper, starring Gaye Gürsel as an Istanbul music student who travels to south-east Turkey to record tradiyional music and confront her own past...
directed by Özcan Alper - Hidden Lives directed by A. Haluk Ünal
- Home directed by Muzatffer Özdemir
- Losers' ClubLosers' ClubLosers' Club is a 2011 Turkish comedy-drama film, co-written and directed by Tolga Örnek based on a true story, starring Nejat İşler and Yiğit Özşener as the co-hosts of a contorversial mid-90s Istanbul radio show...
directed by Tolga ÖrnekTolga ÖrnekTolga Örnek is a Turkish film director, writer and producer who, in recognition of his 2005 documentary, Gallipoli, was awarded an honorary medal in the general division of the Order of Australia.... - Love and Revolution directed by F. Serkan Acar
- Love Me directed by Ali ÖzgentürkAli ÖzgentürkAli Özgentürk is a renowned Turkish film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was born in 1947 in Adana, Turkey. After studying philosophy and sociology at Istanbul University, he became involved in theater, as an actor, director, and playwright. He founded Istanbul's first street theater...
- SeptemberSeptember (2011 film)September is a 2011 Turkish drama film, written and directed by Cemil Ağacıkoğlu, starring Turgay Aydın and Görkem Yeltan as an introverted couple who encounter a maltreated young woman...
directed by Cemil Ağacıkoğlu - Simurg directed by Ruhi Karadağ
- Snake directed by Caner Erzincan
- The Body directed by Mustafa Nuri
- The Extremely Tragic Story of Celal Tan and His FamilyThe Extremely Tragic Story of Celal Tan and His FamilyThe Extremely Tragic Story of Celal Tan and His Family is a 2011 Turkish comedy-drama film, written and directed by Onur Ünlü, starring Selçuk Yöntem as a widowed constitutional law professor, whose life takes a turn for the worse when he remarries to a university student, whose life he has saved...
directed by Onur Ünlü - Turkish PassportTurkish passportTurkish Passports are issued in accordance with the Passport Act from July 15, 1950 to Turkish citizens to travel outside of the country....
directed by Burak Cem Arlıel - Velvet / The Great Mother directed by Erdoğan Kar
National Student Films Competition
Seven documentary films, seven animation films, ten experimental films, ten fictional films by undergraduate students studying at cinema and television departments of Turkey’s communications and fine arts faculties were selected from the 180 films that were submitted to compete in the festival’s National Student Films Competition.Mediterranean Short Film Competition
Twelve documentary films, eighteen animation films, fourteen experimental films and forty-two fictional films were selected from the 526 films from 25 countries that were submitted to compete in the festival’s Mediterranean Short Film Competition.Retrospective: Derviş Zaim
Turkish Cypriot director Derviş ZaimDervis Zaim
Derviş Zaim is a Turkish Cypriot filmmaker and novelist, who has twice won the Golden Orange for Best Director for Elephants and Grass and Dot ; Golden Oranges for Best Film and Best Screenplay for Somersault in a Coffin ; and the Yunus Nadi literary prize for his debut novel Ares in Wonderland...
, who headed the National Feature Film Competition Jury, received a retrospective of six of his works.
- Dot
- Elephants and GrassElephants and GrassElephants and Grass is a 2001 Turkish drama film, written and directed by Derviş Zaim, about six different stories that merge into a common theme...
- Mud
- Shadows and FacesShadows and FacesShadows and Faces is a 2010 Turkish drama film, written and directed by Turkish Cypriot director Derviş Zaim, which tells the story of a young girl who is separated from her father, a Karagöz shadow play master, during the beginning of the conflict between Turks and Greeks in Cyprus in 1963...
- Somersault in a CoffinSomersault in a CoffinSomersault in a Coffin is a 1996 Turkish comedy-drama film, written and directed by Derviş Zaim, about a homeless criminal and car thief. The film, which was released on , received awards at several international film festivals including the Golden Orange for best film at the Antalya International...
- Waiting for Heaven
Turkish Premiere: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
The director was in attendance for the Turkish premiere of his 2011 Cannes Film Festival2011 Cannes Film Festival
The 64th annual Cannes Film Festival was held from May 11 to May 22, 2011. American actor Robert De Niro served as the president of the jury for the main competition and French filmmaker Michel Gondry headed the jury for the short film competition...
Grand Prix
Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival)
The Grand Prix is an award of the Cannes Film Festival bestowed by the jury of the festival on one of the competing feature films. It is the second-most prestigious prize of the festival after the Palme d'Or...
-winning film, as well as an exhibition of his photographic works.
- Once Upon a Time in AnatoliaOnce Upon a Time in AnatoliaOnce Upon a Time in Anatolia is a 2011 Turkish drama film, co-written and directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan based on the true experience of one of the film's writers, telling the story of a group of men who search for a dead body on the Anatolian steppe...
directed by Nuri Bilge CeylanNuri Bilge CeylanNuri Bilge Ceylan is a Turkish photographer and film director. He is married to the filmmaker, photographer, and actress Ebru Ceylan, his co-star in İklimler .-Life:Ceylan learned photography at age 15, and developed an interest in film at 22....
World Cinema
A selection of nine internationally acclaimed films, including the latest from American director Woody AllenWoody Allen
Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. Allen's films draw heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema...
.
- Above Us Only Sky directed by Jan Schomburg
- AmnestyAmnesty (film)Amnesty is a 2011 Albanian drama film written and directed by Bujar Alimani. The film has been selected as the Albanian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.-See also:...
directed by Bujar Alimani - Apnea directed by Ari Bafalouka
- Karen Cries in a Bus directed by Gabriel Rojas Vera
- Man without a Cell Phone directed by Sameh Zoab
- Midnight in ParisMidnight in ParisMidnight in Paris is a 2011 romantic comedy-fantasy film written and directed by Woody Allen. The plot centers on a small group of Americans visiting the French capital for business and pleasure...
directed by Woody AllenWoody AllenWoody Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. Allen's films draw heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema... - Parked directed by Darragh Byrne
- The House directed by Zuzana Liová
- Tomorrow Will Be BetterTomorrow will be BetterTomorrow will be Better is a song written by Taiwanese songwriter Lo Ta-yu. It was created in 1985 under the inspiration of the single We Are the World to commemorate the forty year anniversary to the end of Japanese colonial rule in Taiwan....
directed by Dorata Kedzierzawska
The Desert of the Real
A selection of critically acclaimed documentaries were screened under the title "The Desert of the Real" .I am Asian, I am African
Tunisian film critic Hassouna Mansouri and Lebanese director Bahij HojeijBahij Hojeij
Bahij Hojeij is a fiction and documentaries director born in Lebanon.His second feature length fiction film, Here Comes the Rain was released in 2010.-Cinema:- "Fire Belt" , 2004- "Here Comes the Rain" , to be released in 2010...
were among the panel for the related discussion at the Metropolitan Municipality Theater Hall.