Int’l Ankara Film Festival Awards announced
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Anatolia News Agency
Oluşturulma Tarihi: Mart 23, 2009 00:00
ANKARA - The 7th International Ankara Film Festival has ended with Özcan Alper’s "Sonbahar" (Autumn) sweeping awards in seven categories, including best film and best director.
At a press conference held at Kızılay Büyülüfener Movie Theater, the festival’s chairman Can Özgün announced the winners of the festival.
"Sonbahar" was unanimously chosen as the best film and was also awarded the cinema writers association best film award. The best director award and film directors association best director went to Özcan Alper.
The film tells the story of a political prisoner who suffered through the inhuman conditions of a high-security prison. The most impressive part of the story is his meeting with a young Georgian prostitute. Their relationship provides an opportunity for the audience to compare the dreams, frustrations and pains of two people, one who spent 10 years in prison because of his socialist ideology and the other who suffers from the aftereffects of that same ideology.
The Mahmut Tali Öngören special award and Onat Kutlar best screenplay award went to Cemal Şan’s Dilber’in Sekiz Günü (Dilber’s Eight Days), which is the second installment of Cemal Şan's "Soul, Mind & Heart" trilogy, which started with "Zeynep’s Eight Days," and is structured around the "soul."
Here is a list of other winners
w Best actress: Nesrin Cevadzade (Dilber’in Sekiz Günü)
w Best actor: Fırat Tanış (Dilber’in Sekiz Günü)
w Best supporting actress: Megi Kobaladzade (Sonbahar)
w Best supporting actor: İsmail Hacıoğlu (Three Apples Fell from the Sky)
w Best director of photography: Feza Çaldıran (Sonbahar)
w Best art director: Veli Kahraman (Devrim Arabaları Ğ Revolutionary Cars)
w Best music: Nail Yurtsever, Engin Aslan, Cem Tuner (Dilber’in Sekiz Günü)
w Best fiction: Thomas Balkenhol (Sonbahar)
"Sonbahar" was unanimously chosen as the best film and was also awarded the cinema writers association best film award. The best director award and film directors association best director went to Özcan Alper.
The film tells the story of a political prisoner who suffered through the inhuman conditions of a high-security prison. The most impressive part of the story is his meeting with a young Georgian prostitute. Their relationship provides an opportunity for the audience to compare the dreams, frustrations and pains of two people, one who spent 10 years in prison because of his socialist ideology and the other who suffers from the aftereffects of that same ideology.
The Mahmut Tali Öngören special award and Onat Kutlar best screenplay award went to Cemal Şan’s Dilber’in Sekiz Günü (Dilber’s Eight Days), which is the second installment of Cemal Şan's "Soul, Mind & Heart" trilogy, which started with "Zeynep’s Eight Days," and is structured around the "soul."
Here is a list of other winners
w Best actress: Nesrin Cevadzade (Dilber’in Sekiz Günü)
w Best actor: Fırat Tanış (Dilber’in Sekiz Günü)
w Best supporting actress: Megi Kobaladzade (Sonbahar)
w Best supporting actor: İsmail Hacıoğlu (Three Apples Fell from the Sky)
w Best director of photography: Feza Çaldıran (Sonbahar)
w Best art director: Veli Kahraman (Devrim Arabaları Ğ Revolutionary Cars)
w Best music: Nail Yurtsever, Engin Aslan, Cem Tuner (Dilber’in Sekiz Günü)
w Best fiction: Thomas Balkenhol (Sonbahar)