The 22nd Ankara International Film Festival was a film festival

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 Ankara

Ankara

Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million....

, 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...

, which ran from March 17 to 27, 2011. Films were screened at Batı Movie Theater, Büyülü Fener Kızılay, Çankaya Municipality Contemporary Arts Center and the Goethe Institut Ankara, and the Street of Art events took place across the city. Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski

Jerzy Skolimowski

Jerzy Skolimowski is a Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor. A graduate of the prestigious National Film School in Łódź, Skolimowski has directed more than twenty films since his 1960 début Oko wykol...

 was the guest of honor at the festival which included a retrospective of his work.

This edition of the Ankara International Film Festival

Ankara International Film Festival

The Ankara International Film Festival is a film festival, organized by The World Mass Media Research Foundation and accredited by FIPRESCI, which has been held in Ankara, Turkey since 1988.-Editions:...

, organized by The World Mass Media Research Foundation and accredited by FIPRESCI

FIPRESCI

The International Federation of Film Critics is an association of national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world for "the promotion and development of film culture and for the safeguarding of professional interests." It was founded in June 1930 in...

, opened with a gala on the evening of March 16 at the Ministry of Education Assembly Hall, at which the foundation special awards were presented, and the Emre Kartarı Jazz Band performed film music.

The festival concluded with an awards deremony on March 27 at the Ministry of Education Assembly Hall, at which Derviş Zaim

Dervis 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...

, whose film Shadows and Faces

Shadows and Faces

Shadows 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...

won the top award, announced "I will try to live up to this honor and I will continue making films that take risks."

A total of 620 films were submitted to the competition and screening sections of this edition of the festival.

National Feature Film Competition Awards

• Best Film: Shadows and Faces
  Shadows and Faces
  Shadows 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...
  
  directed by Derviş Zaim
  Dervis 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...
  
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• Mahmut Tali Öngören Special Award: White as Snow
  White as Snow (film)
  White as Snow is a 2010 Turkish drama film written and directed by Selim Güneş based on the short story Ayran by Sabahattin Ali, which tells the story of a 9-year-old boy who must care for his younger siblings by selling hot drinks to weary winter travelers...
  
  directed by Selim Güneş.
• Best Director: Derviş Zaim
  Dervis 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...
  
   for Shadows and Faces
  Shadows and Faces
  Shadows 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...
  
  .
• SİYAD Best Film Award: Shadows and Faces
  Shadows and Faces
  Shadows 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...
  
  directed by Derviş Zaim
  Dervis 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...
  
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• Best Actor: Güven Kıraç
  Güven Kiraç
  Güven Kıraç is a Turkish actor.-References:* Biyografi.info - * Biyografi.net - -External links:...
  
   for The Crossing
  The Crossing (2010 film)
  The Crossing is a 2010 Turkish drama film directed by Selim Demirdelen, which is about a devoted family man who comes home from work oneda to find his house deserted...
  
  .
• Best Actress: Popi Avraam for Shadows and Faces
  Shadows and Faces
  Shadows 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...
  
  .
• Best Supporting Actor: Settar Tanrıöğen
  Settar Tanrıöğen
  -Selected filmography:-External links:...
  
   for Shadows and Faces
  Shadows and Faces
  Shadows 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...
  
  & Majority
  Majority (film)
  Majority is a 2010 Turkish drama film directed by Seren Yüce, which tells the story of a middle class young man rebelling against his father's brutish authority while seeking a rough romance with a woman of ethnic minority...
  
  .
• Best Supporting Actress: Sinem İslamoğlu for White as Snow
  White as Snow (film)
  White as Snow is a 2010 Turkish drama film written and directed by Selim Güneş based on the short story Ayran by Sabahattin Ali, which tells the story of a 9-year-old boy who must care for his younger siblings by selling hot drinks to weary winter travelers...
  
  .
• Onat Kutlar Best Script Award: Sedat Yılmaz for Press
  Press (film)
  Press is a 2010 Turkish drama film directed by Sedat Yılmaz, which tells the story of tells the story of six employees at the Diyarbakır office of Turkey's first Kurdish language daily newspaper...
  
  .
• Most Promising New Director: Sedat Yılmaz for Press
  Press (film)
  Press is a 2010 Turkish drama film directed by Sedat Yılmaz, which tells the story of tells the story of six employees at the Diyarbakır office of Turkey's first Kurdish language daily newspaper...
  
  .
• Most Promising New Script Writer: Selim Güneş for White as Snow
  White as Snow (film)
  White as Snow is a 2010 Turkish drama film written and directed by Selim Güneş based on the short story Ayran by Sabahattin Ali, which tells the story of a 9-year-old boy who must care for his younger siblings by selling hot drinks to weary winter travelers...
  
  .
• Jury Special Performance Prize: Didem Soylu, Buse Kılıçkaya, Seyham Arman & Ayta Sözeri Other Angels
  Other Angels
  Other Angels is a 2010 Turkish drama film, directed by Emre Yalgın, which follows the lives of four transgender sex workers living together in the underbelly of Istanbul...
  
  .
• Most Promising New Actor: Aram Dildar for Press
  Press (film)
  Press is a 2010 Turkish drama film directed by Sedat Yılmaz, which tells the story of tells the story of six employees at the Diyarbakır office of Turkey's first Kurdish language daily newspaper...
  
  & Bartu Küçükçağlayan for Majority
  Majority (film)
  Majority is a 2010 Turkish drama film directed by Seren Yüce, which tells the story of a middle class young man rebelling against his father's brutish authority while seeking a rough romance with a woman of ethnic minority...
  
  .
• Best Cinematographer: Türksoy Gölebeyi for The Voice
• Best Art Director: Elif Taşçıoğlu for Shadows and Faces
  Shadows and Faces
  Shadows 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...
  
  
• Best Original Music: Mehmet Cem Ünal & Safa Hendem for The Voice
• Best Editor: Aylin Zoi Tinel for Shadows and Faces
  Shadows and Faces
  Shadows 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...
  
  

National Short Film Competition Awards

• Best Short Fiction Film: Bicycle directed by İ. Serhat Karaaslan.
• Best Short Experimental Film: Tananore Love directed by Ebru Güney.
• Best Short Animation Film: Istanbul directed by İdil Ar.
• Special Short Film Competition Jury Prize: 38 Degrees directed by Ömer Sinir.

National Documentary Film Competition Awards

• Best Student Documentary Film: Mada directed by Musa Ak.
• Best Professional Documentary Film: ...Leaving Behind directed by Mehmet Özgür Candan.

Foundation Special Awards

• Hasan Saltık
  Hasan Saltik
  -External links:* – Saltık's record label* at the Prince Claus Awards...
  
   (founder of Kalan Müzik)
• Suna Kan
  Suna Kan
  Suna Kan, born on October 21, 1936 in Adana, Turkey. Great Turkish violinist.She started playing the violin at the age of five and gave her first public concerts when she was only nine years old, performing Mozart's A major and Viotti's A minor violin concertos with the Presidential Symphony...
  
   (violinist)
• Sezer Sezin (actress)

National Feature Film Competition Jury

• Ayla Kanbur
• Fadik Sevin Atasoy
• Erdal Beşikçioğlu
  Erdal Beşikçioğlu
  - Biography :Erdal Beşikçioğlu attended İzmir Özel Türk College and Mehmet Seyfi Eraltay High School after which he studied at the Hacettepe University State Conservatory. He participated in creative workshops with William Gaskill among others. Upon graduating, he started working in several state...
  
  
• Murat Özer
• Serdar Akar

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Films in competition

A pre-selection jury consisting of Sevilay Çelenk, Barış Kılıçbay and İnci Demirkol selected 10 films, from the 20 submissions received, to compete in the National Feature Film Competition.

• Majority
  Majority (film)
  Majority is a 2010 Turkish drama film directed by Seren Yüce, which tells the story of a middle class young man rebelling against his father's brutish authority while seeking a rough romance with a woman of ethnic minority...
  
  directed by Seren Yüce.
• Shadows and Faces
  Shadows and Faces
  Shadows 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...
  
  directed by Derviş Zaim
  Dervis 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...
  
  .
• Tales From Kars directed by Özcan Alper, Ülkü Oktay, Emre Akay, Ahu Öztürk and Zehra Derya Koç.
• The Crossing
  The Crossing (2010 film)
  The Crossing is a 2010 Turkish drama film directed by Selim Demirdelen, which is about a devoted family man who comes home from work oneda to find his house deserted...
  
  directed by Selim Demirdelen.
• Lost Freedom
  Lost Freedom
  Lost Freedom is a 2010 Turkish drama film, written and directed by Umur Hozatlı, about the relationship between the sister of a detained terror suspect and the son of the Turkish gendarmerie chief who has detained him...
  
  directed by Umur Hozatlı.
• White as Snow
  White as Snow (film)
  White as Snow is a 2010 Turkish drama film written and directed by Selim Güneş based on the short story Ayran by Sabahattin Ali, which tells the story of a 9-year-old boy who must care for his younger siblings by selling hot drinks to weary winter travelers...
  
  directed by Selim Güneş.
• Press
  Press (film)
  Press is a 2010 Turkish drama film directed by Sedat Yılmaz, which tells the story of tells the story of six employees at the Diyarbakır office of Turkey's first Kurdish language daily newspaper...
  
  directed by Sedat Yılmaz.
• Black and White
  Black and White (2010 film)
  Black and White is a 2010 Turkish drama film directed by Ahmet Boyacıoğlu which tells the stories of a group of regulars at a famous bar in Ankara, and was described by the director as being a film "about loneliness, growing old, friendship, solidarity, and that special bond you feel for Ankara."...
  
  directed by Ahmet Boyacıoğlu.
• The Voice directed by Ümit Ünal
  Ümit Ünal
  Ümit Ünal is a film director, screenwriter and author. Born in 1965 in Turkey, he is the scriptwriter for eight Turkish feature films including Teyzem , Hayallerim, Askim ve Sen . He has published one book of stories and two novels. He has been working as a TV commercials director since 1996...
  
  .
• Other Angels
  Other Angels
  Other Angels is a 2010 Turkish drama film, directed by Emre Yalgın, which follows the lives of four transgender sex workers living together in the underbelly of Istanbul...
  
  directed by Emre Yalgın.

National Short Film Competition Jury

• Ceylan Özçelik
• Emrah Serbes
• Çiçek Kahraman
• Stavros Chassapis
• İnan Temelkuran

Films in programme

A pre-selection jury consisting of Bülent Özkam, Cumhur Canbazoğlu and Prof. Dr. Oğuz Onaran selected 15 fictional, 7 animation and 13 experimental films to compete in the National Short Film Competition. Also 23 films were selected to be shown out of competition.

Fiction films in competition

• The Curse of The Apple directed by H.Doğan Ercan.
• The Cello directed by Necmettin Sancak.
• Gloomy Mornings directed by Serhat Eser Erdem.
• Silence directed by Aziz Çapkurt.
• Bicycle directed by İ. Serhat Karaaslan.
• Blood directed by İ. Serhat Karaaslan.
• The Father directed by Şenol Çöm.
• Coffee Job directed by Tuğçe Sönmez.
• The Paper Murderers directed by Selin Cevizli.
• The Uşak Thing directed by Yusuf Emirdar.
• Movie or Movie directed by Şükrü Apaydın.
• Moment directed by Ayşegül Okul.
• Waiting directed by Burak Çevik and Kutay Denizler.
• Endeavour directed by Bahadır Erturun.
• The Stairway directed by İbrahim Sena Kandazoğlu.

Experimental films in competition

• The Crow directed by Alper Öztekin.
• Fragment directed by Ali İhsan Elmas.
• Nothing directed by Eytan İpeker.
• Shadow directed by Bilgi Diren Güneş.
• Tananore Love directed by Ebru Güney.
• Life in Parantheses directed by Zafer Ulufer.
• Ankara Nox directed by Özlem Mengilibörü.
• Pent Pa directed by Demet Öztürk.
• About The Old World directed by Bilal Çakay.
• 38 Degrees directed by Ömer Sinir.
• Memories From The Future directed by Hüseyin Mert Erverdi.
• Highway Screening directed by Yoel Meranda.
• Expectations directed by Ethem Özgüven.

Animation films in competition

• Müsait in Somewhere directed by Orhan Başara.
• Grain directed by Anıl Tortop.
• Slumberland directed by Işık Dikmen.
• Istanbul directed by İdil Ar.
• One Random Day in Istanbul directed by Nurbanu Asena.
• The Owl Who Had a Wish Tangled to its Foot directed by Burak N. Kurt.
• Wind directed by Murat Kılıç.

Out of competition screenings

• For Rent directed by Emre Karapınar and İsmail Onay.
• Big Little directed by Emre Karakaş and Kevser Kulalıgil.
• Dis-Ko directed by Yasin Fatih Bayram.
• Untitled directed by Mehmet Nuri Çetin.
• The Ottoman directed by Hakan Burcuoğlu.
• Success directed by Selim Akgül.
• The Separation directed by Erdem Çiçek.
• Road to School directed by Yiğitalp Ertem.
• Beast directed by Can Sever.
• Egoist directed by Tuğçe Tunç.
• American Billiard directed by Orhun Bora Çetin.
• The Stranger directed by Sedat Azazi and Bilal Çakay.
• Five Stone directed by Kenan Tekeş and Rıza Barut.
• Ş's Death directed by Hatice Aydoğdu.
• Elif directed by Ferit Ürük.
• The Walkman directed by Emre Karataş.
• Gren directed by Volkan Karagül.
• The Puppet directed by Kemal Tezcan.
• 5 Liras directed by İ. Serhat Karaaslan.
• Vantila-tograph/Gift to Ahmet Uluçay directed by Y.Ilgaz Irmak.
• I Know I Don't Smell Good directed by Cenk Ertürk.
• Letter directed by Göktan Göktaş.

National Documentary Film Competition Jury

• Ali Karadoğan
• Emel Çelebi
• Kurtuluş Özgen
• Necla Algan
• Thomas Balkenhol

Films in programme

A pre-selection jury consisting of Ahmet Gürata, Bülent Özkam and Ersan Ocak selected 7 student and 11 professional documentaries to compete in the National Documentary Film Competitio. Also 2 documentaries were selected to be shown out of competition.

Student films in competition

• My Father Is Making History directed by Haydar Demirtaş.
• Autumn in Bayrampasa directed by Cem Terbiyeli.
• Gülay Master directed by Selin Altay.
• Nasty Age directed by Cahit Çeçen.
• Mada directed by Musa Ak.
• Life Birds directed by Hüdai Ateş.
• Urbanbugs directed by Aykut Alp Ersoy.

Profesional films in competition

• ...Leaving Behind directed by Mehmet Özgür Candan.
• One Step Beyond directed by Tülin Dağ.
• A Philately Story directed by Ümit Topaloğlu.
• Daredevils directed by Serdar Güven.
• Dream Gang directed by Seyfettin Tokmak and Kenan Kavut.
• While Everyone Else Sleeps directed by Erdem Murat Çelikler.
• İfakat directed by Orhan Tekeoğlu.
• Offside directed by Reyan Tuvi.
• My Letter to Pippa directed by Bingöl Elmas.
• Selahattin's Istanbul directed by Aysim Türkmen.
• Brutal Consciences directed by Cenk Örtülü and Zeynel Koç.

Out of competition screenings

• We Won’t Let You Touch Our Water directed by Cihat Bilen.
• Your Son, Erdal directed by Tunç Erenkuş.