29th International Istanbul Film Festival
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The 29th International Istanbul Film Festival was a film festival
held in Istanbul
, Turkey
, which ran from April 3 to 18, 2010. More than 200 films were screened in 23 categories at seven movie theatres including Atlas, Rüya, Beyoğlu, Sinepop, Pera Museum theaters in Beyoğlu, the Kadıköy theater in Kadıköy and the Nişantaşı CityLife Cinema (City’s).
This edition of the Istanbul International Film Festival
, which was founded in 1984 and is organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) and accredited by FIAPF
, opened with a gala on April 2, 2010, presented by actress Ceyda Düvenci and actor Yetkin Dikinciler
at the Lütfi Kırdar Congress Exhibition Hall, followed by a screening of Le Concert
by Romanian-French director Radu Mihaileanu
.
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 Istanbul
Istanbul
Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...
, 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 April 3 to 18, 2010. More than 200 films were screened in 23 categories at seven movie theatres including Atlas, Rüya, Beyoğlu, Sinepop, Pera Museum theaters in Beyoğlu, the Kadıköy theater in Kadıköy and the Nişantaşı CityLife Cinema (City’s).
This edition of the Istanbul International Film Festival
Istanbul International Film Festival
The Istanbul International Film Festival is the first and oldest international film festival in Turkey, organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts , a non-profit organisation. It is held every year in April in movie theaters in Istanbul, Turkey...
, which was founded in 1984 and is organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) and accredited by FIAPF
FIAPF
The FIAPF based in Paris, created in 1933, is an organization composed with 31 member associations from 25 of the leading audiovisual production countries...
, opened with a gala on April 2, 2010, presented by actress Ceyda Düvenci and actor Yetkin Dikinciler
Yetkin Dikinciler
-Biography:Yetkin Dikinciler graduated in Theatre from the State Conservatory of Mimar Sinan University.He was awarded "Best Actor" for his role as Nazım Hikmet in Mavi Gözlü Dev at the 19th Ankara Film Festival, 13th ÇASOD Awards and 13th Sadri Alışık Awards....
at the Lütfi Kırdar Congress Exhibition Hall, followed by a screening of Le Concert
Le Concert
Le Concert is a 2009 French comedy film by Radu Mihăileanu starring Aleksei Guskov, Mélanie Laurent and Miou-Miou. It has won the Best Original Score and Best Sound awards at César Awards 2010.- Plot :...
by Romanian-French director Radu Mihaileanu
Radu Mihaileanu
Radu Mihăileanu is a Jewish Romanian-born French film director and screenwriter. He left Romania in 1980 and graduated the IDHEC cinematographic institute in Paris. In addition to his work in the cinema he published a book of poems in 1987 titled Une vague en mal de mer...
.
Honorary Cinema Awards
- Turkish actor 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 film editor Mevlüt Koçak
- Turkish director and actor Feyzi Tuna
International Golden Tulip Competition
- Golden Tulip (in memory of Şakir EczacıbaşıŞakir EczacıbaşıŞakir Eczacıbaşı, , a second generation member of the notable Turkish Eczacıbaşı family, was a pharmacist, photographer and businessman....
): The MisfortunatesThe MisfortunatesThe Misfortunates is a 2009 Belgian comedy-drama film from director Felix Van Groeningen, adapted from the book De helaasheid der dingen by Belgian writer Dimitri Verhulst...
directed by Felix Van Groeningen - Special Jury Prize: Sandrine KiberlainSandrine KiberlainSandrine Kiberlain is a French actress and singer. She has often worked with the director Laetitia Masson, and has also worked with Benoît Jacquot.Kiberlain received the Prix Romy Schneider in 1995...
for Mademoiselle Chambon
National Golden Tulip Competition
- Golden Tulip Best Film Award: Vavien directed by Yağmur & Durul Taylan
- Best Director Award: Miraz Bezar for Min Dît: The Children of DiyarbakırMin Dît: The Children of DiyarbakırMin Dît: The Children of Diyarbakır is a 2009 kurdish drama film, written, produced and directed by German-based Kurdish filmmaker Miraz Bezar, based on a story co-written with Alevi-Kurdish journalist and short-story writer Evrim Alataş, about street children in the eastern Turkish city of...
( / ) - Best Actress Award: Şenay Orak for Min Dît: The Children of Diyarbakır ( / )
- Best Actor Award: Tansu Biçer for Five CitiesFive CitiesFive Cities is a 2010 Turkish drama film, written, produced and directed by Onur Ünlü, about a young policeman just arrived in Istanbul who falls in love with a woman in a candy shop...
- Best Screenplay Award: Engin GünaydınEngin Günaydın-Biography:Günaydın started studying at Hacettepe University Conservatory, but in his second year he switched to Mimar Sinan University from where he graduated in theatre....
for Vavien - Best Cinematography Award: Barış Özbiçer for HoneyHoney (2010 film)Honey is a 2010 Turkish drama film directed by Semih Kaplanoğlu, the third and final installment of the "Yusuf Trilogy", which includes Egg and Milk. It premiered on 16 February 2010 in competition at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival, where it became the third Turkish film, after...
- Best Music Award: Mustafa Biber for Min Dît: The Children of Diyarbakır ( / )
- Special Jury Prize: Honey directed by Semih KaplanoğluSemih KaplanogluSemih Kaplanoğlu is a Turkish playwright, film director and producer.-Career:He graduated from the Cinema and Television Section of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Dokuz Eylül University in his hometown...
The Council of Europe Film Awards
- Face Award: AjamiAjami (film)Ajami is a 2009 Arab/Jewish collaboration drama film. Its plot is set in the Ajami neighborhood of Jaffa.-Overview:Written and directed by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani , Ajami explores five different stories set in an actual impoverished Christian-and-Muslim Arab neighborhood of the Tel...
directed by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani - Special Jury Prize: The Day God Walked Away directed by Philippe van Leeuw
International Film Critics Association (FIPRESCI) Prizes
- International Competition Prize: Mamemoiselle Chambon directed by Stéphane Brizé
- National Competition Prize (in memory of Onat Kutlar): Vavien directed by Yağmur & Durul Taylan
People's Choice Awards
- International Competition Award: I Killed My Mother directed by Xavier DolanXavier DolanXavier Dolan , sometimes credited as Xavier Dolan-Tadros, is a Québécois actor and filmmaker, the son of Geneviève Dolan, a teacher, and Manuel Tadros, a Quebecois actor and singer of Egyptian descent...
- National Competition Award: HoneyHoney (2010 film)Honey is a 2010 Turkish drama film directed by Semih Kaplanoğlu, the third and final installment of the "Yusuf Trilogy", which includes Egg and Milk. It premiered on 16 February 2010 in competition at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival, where it became the third Turkish film, after...
directed by Semih KaplanoğluSemih KaplanogluSemih Kaplanoğlu is a Turkish playwright, film director and producer.-Career:He graduated from the Cinema and Television Section of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Dokuz Eylül University in his hometown...
National competition
- Min Dît: The Children of DiyarbakırMin Dît: The Children of DiyarbakırMin Dît: The Children of Diyarbakır is a 2009 kurdish drama film, written, produced and directed by German-based Kurdish filmmaker Miraz Bezar, based on a story co-written with Alevi-Kurdish journalist and short-story writer Evrim Alataş, about street children in the eastern Turkish city of...
( / ) directed by Miraz Bezar - Brought by the SeaBrought by the SeaBrought by the Sea is a 2010 Turkish drama film, directed by Nesli Çölgeçen, about an ex-cop who accidentally kills an African immigrant and retreats with a guilty conscience back to his hometown...
directed by Nesli ÇölgeçenNesli ÇölgeçenNesli Çölgeçen is a Turkish film director, and screen writer. He graduated from Mekteb-i Mülkiye in 1976. Since 1979 he is a film maker.- Director :*Kardeşim Benim *Züğürt Ağa *Selamsız Bandosu... - EnvyEnvy (2009 film)Envy is an 2009 Turkish drama film, written and directed by Zeki Demirkubuz based on the novel of the same name by Nahit Sirri Orik, about a married woman who has an affair with the son of a rich man...
directed by Zeki DemirkubuzZeki DemirkubuzZeki Demirkubuz is a contemporary Turkish film director, screenwriter, producer and film editor.- Biography :... - Love, BitterLove, BitterLove, Bitter is a 2009 Turkish drama film, co-produced and directed by A. Taner Elhan, about a literature professor caught in a dangerous love quadrangle...
directed by A. Taner Elhan - Jolly LifeJolly LifeJolly Life is a 2009 Turkish comedy film, written and directed by Yılmaz Erdoğan, about a working class Turkish man who accepts a job as a Mall Santa. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on , was screened in competition at the 29th International Istanbul Film Festival...
directed by Yılmaz ErdoğanYilmaz ErdoganYılmaz Erdoğan is a Turkish filmmaker, actor and poet, who is most famous for his box-office record-breaking debut comedy film Vizontele and the television series Bir Demet Tiyatro .... - In DarknessIn Darkness- Plot :Egemen is an advertising agency clerk in his thirties who has to share a roof with his mentally ill mother, Gülseren. Having to endure his mother’s anxieties and mental black outs, his only outlet is his workplace; where he feels he can breathe and escape the hell that is his home, even if...
directed by Çağan IrmakCagan IrmakÇağan Irmak is a Turkish film and television writer and director, who has managed to attract a large audience in Turkey and is best known for the TV series Çemberimde Gül Oya and Asmalı Konak , and for the hit films Alone and My Father and My Son , for which he received Turkish Cinema Writers... - A Step into the DarknessA Step into the DarknessA Step into the Darkness is a 2009 Turkish drama film, directed by Atıl İnaç, starring Suzan Genç as an Iraqi refugee who travels to Turkey in search of her missing brother after losing her entire family when soldiers raid their village...
directed by Atıl İnaçAtil InacIleri Atil Cayan Inac aka Atil Inac is a Turkish film writer and director.-Early life:Born into a filmmaker family, his mother a screenwriter, and father a producer, Inac went to the United States for high school education. Upon graduation, he studied philosophy at the University of... - HoneyHoney (2010 film)Honey is a 2010 Turkish drama film directed by Semih Kaplanoğlu, the third and final installment of the "Yusuf Trilogy", which includes Egg and Milk. It premiered on 16 February 2010 in competition at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival, where it became the third Turkish film, after...
directed by Semih KaplanoğluSemih KaplanogluSemih Kaplanoğlu is a Turkish playwright, film director and producer.-Career:He graduated from the Cinema and Television Section of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Dokuz Eylül University in his hometown... - Vavien directed by Yağmur & Durul Taylan
- The VoiceThe Voice (2010 film)The Voice is a 2010 Turkish horror film, directed by Ümit Ünal, about a young woman who begins to hear a strange voice whispering to her. The film opened on nationwide general release across Turkey on .- Production :...
directed by Ümit ÜnalÜmit ÜnalÜmit 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... - Five CitiesFive CitiesFive Cities is a 2010 Turkish drama film, written, produced and directed by Onur Ünlü, about a young policeman just arrived in Istanbul who falls in love with a woman in a candy shop...
directed by Onur Ünlü