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Malatya international film festival dismisses controversy over name
“The thing that needs to be realized is that the name is ‘Malatya International Film Festival.’ Our goal is to promote Malatya through the art of film. For this reason, we left the name modest and did not add anything before or after the current name.
‘Golden Apricot’ is only the name of an award that will be given during the festival. Nothing could be more appropriate than naming the Malatya festival award ‘apricot’,” the film festival organizers said in a written statement released on Tuesday.
The southeastern Anatolian city, famous around the world for its apricot orchards, which account for more than half of the apricots produced in Turkey, is also the largest apricot-exporting city in the world. The fruit has, unsurprisingly, become a symbol of the city. The organizers said it was only natural to name the award after the apricot.
MUFF, a joint effort between the Malatya Governor’s Office and the local Malatya Foundation for Apricot Research, Improvement and Promotion, will be held from Nov. 26 to Dec. 2, the festival’s organizers said.
Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival organizers announced last week that they are currently following the case and studying the details of the issue. They said they will decide whether or not to take legal action against the Malatya festival once the results of their studies on the case are complete.
The statement by MUFF said both sides are working to enrich the cultural wealth of their countries and cities through film. Artists and art-producing institutions, it argued, cannot be in competition. “We have not started with such an intention,” the statement emphasizes.
The Malatya film festival will host around 100 titles from Turkey and abroad throughout the week-long event, which will feature two competition programs; one international competition for features and another for short films from Turkey.
Malatya Governor Ulvi Saran also told reporters earlier that the Yerevan festival organizers would be making a mistake if they sued the Malatya festival, as the Malatya organizers have not violated the copyrights of the Yerevan festival.
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