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MULTIMEDIA
May 27, 2012
 
 
 
 
 
 

Erdem’s ‘Sunshine’ outshines others at 42nd SİYAD Awards

Director Reha Erdem (L) with Elit İşcan, the child star of his SİYAD best film award winning “Hayat Var.”
2 February 2010 / TODAY’S ZAMAN, İSTANBUL
Reha Erdem’s “Hayat Var” (My Only Sunshine) took home four prizes including best film and best director on Sunday at the 42nd annual Turkish Film Critics Association (SİYAD) Awards, outshining “Vavien” (Two-way Switch), directing brothers Yağmur and Durul Taylan’s critically acclaimed dark comedy, which was seen as a sure bet to sweep the prestigious awards after being nominated last month in all of the 11 feature film categories.
“Vavien,” which became the second film in 10 years to earn nominations for all feature film categories at the SİYAD Awards since Tomris Giritlioğlu’s 1999 drama “Salkım Hanım’ın Taneleri” (Mrs. Salkım’s Diamonds), won five awards, including best screenplay for Engin Günaydın. The film was also awarded the prize for best performance by an actress for Binnur Kaya and the best supporting actor award for Settar Tanrıöğen at Sunday’s award ceremony at İstanbul’s Beşiktaş Cultural Center (BKM).

“Vavien,” which tells a story of deceit in an ordinary Anatolian town through the tale of a spineless man trying to kill his naïve wife to get hold of the money she has been secretly saving for some 15 years, also won the best art director award for Elif Taşçıoğlu. The film’s soundtrack, composed by Atilla Özdemiroğlu, received the best music award.

Yet “Vavien” was eclipsed by “Hayat Var” as the latter also took home top technical prizes -- best editing for Erdem and best director of photography for Erdem’s longtime collaborator, Florent Herry -- in addition to the best film and best director honors.

“Hayat Var” also beat top Golden Orange award-winning documentary feature “İki Dil Bir Bavul” (On the Way to School), by co-directors Orhan Eskiköy and Özgür Doğan, “Süt” (Milk) by Semih Kaplanoğlu and “Pandora’nın Kutusu” (Pandora’s Box) by Yeşim Ustaoğlu in the best picture race.

‘Rosary,’ ‘Cheerful Life’ win one prize each

The prize for best performance by an actor went to Nadir Sarıbacak for his portrayal of a naïve muezzin who falls in platonic love with a Catholic nurse in Mahmut Fazıl Coşkun’s debut feature, “Uzak İhtimal” (Wrong Rosary). Büşra Pekin, best known for her stage performances in comedy shows with Yılmaz Erdoğan and his theater company, won the best supporting actress prize for her role in Erdoğan’s “Neşeli Hayat” (A Cheerful Life), winning the film its sole prize.

Starting this year, the SİYAD award for the most promising artist of the year was named after filmmaker Ahmet Uluçay, who died in November 2009, and the winner of the inaugural Ahmet Uluçay prize was Melih Selçuk, for his role in Kaplanoğlu’s “Süt.”

Political overtones

SİYAD hands out awards in a total of 13 categories, which also include best documentary and best short film prizes. Political overtones were prevalent in the SİYAD members’ choices of documentary and foreign film awards. Çayan Demirel’s “5 No’lu Cezaevi” (Prison Number 5), a cinematic account of the events that occurred at Diyarbakır Prison during and after the Sept. 12, 1980 military coup, was named best documentary, while “Cennette de Ölüm Var” (There is also Death in Heaven) by Savaş Baykal, was named best short film.

British filmmaker Steve McQueen’s 2008 debut “Hunger,” about the events in the Maze Prison in the period leading up to the 1981 Irish hunger strike led by IRA volunteer Bobby Sands, was named best foreign film.

 
 
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