The drama was one of the four Turkish movies announced earlier this week that were going to compete in the festival’s feature film competition.
Çelikezer, who is also the film’s producer, pulled his film from the Nuremberg festival “because of limitations imposed by a protocol he signed earlier for the film’s worldwide sales rights” with a distribution company, a written from the director’s publicist statement said on Friday. The protocol requires that “the film cannot be part of the competitive section of a film festival in Europe before April 2012,” the statement read.
Starring Selen Uçer, Serdar Orçin and Yusuf Berkan Demirbağ in the title roles, “Can” tells the moving story of a seven-year-old boy named Can and his mother, who does not want him.
“Can” is set for theatrical release in Turkey on March 16. The date of the film’s European premiere and at which festival it will take place will be announced at a later date, following its Turkish theatrical release, the statement said.
The Nuremberg Turkish-German Film Festival will mark its 17th edition from March 1-11 in the city of Nuremberg in Germany.
