ISTANBUL - The 16th Golden Boll (Altın Koza) Film Festival kicked off last night in the southern city of Adana with an opening ceremony welcoming its guests. Director of international fame and prestigious awards, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, will head the jury for the National Competition while his career will be remembered in a section devoted to him
ISTANBUL - As the southern city of Adana readies for the upcoming Golden Boll Film Festival, which will show 190 films, the Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review profiles the recipients of two of the festival’s honorary awards, actress Filiz Akın and director Ömer Lütfi Akad, both living legends of Turkish cinema.
MEXICO CITY - As Mexicans lock themselves inside in fear of the deadly swine flu virus, they can't help but have a little fun with it. The country’s newspapers offer smiley cutouts for people to paste to their masks, and some drivers have fashioned masks for their cars
ISTANBUL - For Jerzy Skolimowski, receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Istanbul Film Festival doesn’t mean the end of hard work. Despite a break in his directing career, he is ready to make more movies worth at least another prize of this kind in the next 10 years, as he joked at the final gala
ISTANBUL - For the first time in Turkish history top female vocalists assemble to perform on the same stage, some together, some in Kurdish Ğ all singing each other’s songs. Their cause is united behind a campaign against domestic violence in Turkey and a hotline that has had close to 12,000 callers in a year and a half, 2,500 of whom required emergency services.
ISTANBUL - Bursa International Silk Road Film festival will greet movie-lovers through Thursday. The festival will feature the latest by renowned names like Woody Allen, Wim Wenders and Hayao Miyazaki, as well as the debut features of newcomer directors from different countries.
ISTANBUL - Popular Turkish director Çağan Irmak’s tear-jerker ’Issız Adam’ works as a powerful commentary of the modern urban man and the crumble of relations in big cities. But watch out for the occasional acting blunders and stilted dialogue. And prepare to shed a few tears.