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Altın Koza film festival unrolls 17th year
The festival will have its official opening tonight, with the Turkish premiere of “La mujer sin piano” (Woman without Piano), directed by Javier Rebollo.
Ten recent Turkish films are running for prizes in the national feature competition in this year’s festival. Among them are such critical favorites as Semih Kaplanoğlu’s Berlinale-winning “Bal” (Honey), which was selected late last week as the Turkish entrant for next year’s foreign language Oscar race, and Onur Ünlü’s “Beş Şehir” (Five Cities), which premiered at last year’s Altın Portakal film festival in Antalya. Another notable entrant is Levent Semerci’s box office-champ debut feature “Nefes: Vatan Sağolsun” (The Breath).
Also running are Zeki Demirkubuz’s period drama “Kıskanmak” (Envy), which also premiered last year at Altın Portakal; veteran filmmaker Nesli Çölgeçen’s “Denizden Gelen” (Brought by the Sea); and Hakan Algül’s comedy “Eyyvah Eyvah,” all of which had their theatrical runs during the last season.
Atıl İnaç’s “Büyük Oyun” (A step in to the Darkness), which opened in Turkish theaters last Friday, and “Kavşak” (Crossroads), Selim Demirdelen’s debut feature which had its world premiere this month at the Montreal World Film Festival, are also among the national feature competition entrants.
Among Adana’s guests from overseas is world-renowned Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos, who is the guest of honor at this year’s festival. A batch screening of Angelopoulos’ films -- including “The Beekeeper” (1986), “Landscape in the Mist” (1988), “The Suspended Step of the Stork” (1991), “Ulysses’ Gaze” (1995) and “Eternity and a Day” (1998) -- is offered in a special program dedicated to the 75-year-old director.
Palestinian filmmakers Nasri Hajjaj and Liana Badr are also expected in town to take part in a special program dedicated to films and documentaries that tackle Mideast issues. Hajjaj’s newest documentary, “As The Poet Said,” and Badr’s 2006 documentary “The Gates Are Open. Sometimes!” are among eight films to be offered in the program, titled “Palestine: Longing for Peace.” The program will also feature a panel discussion titled “Making Movies in Palestine.”
The Altın Koza features two more competitive sections: one of them for short films from around the Mediterranean and another for student films from Turkey. Eleven short documentaries, eight experimental shorts, 28 fiction short films and 14 animated shorts are running this year in the festival’s Mediterranean Countries Short Film Competition. Thirty-three entrants are competing in the student films competition.
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