Film Festivali’nin yeni yönetmeni Azize Tan

Film Festivali’nin yeni yönetmeni Azize Tan

İstanbul Kültür Sanat Vakfı’nda, Hülya Uçansu’nun ayrılmasıyla boşalan İstanbul Film Festivali Yönetmenliği’ne, halen yönetmen yardımcılığı görevini yürüten Azize Tan getirildi.

Film Festivali’nin yeni yönetmeni Azize Tan

İstanbul Kültür Sanat Vakfı’nda, Hülya Uçansu’nun ayrılmasıyla boşalan İstanbul Film Festivali Yönetmenliği’ne, halen yönetmen yardımcılığı görevini yürüten Azize Tan getirildi.

İKSV’de 1996 yılında İstanbul Film Festivali’nde altyazı koordinatörü olarak çalışmaya başlayan Azize Tan, 2000 - 2002 yılları arasında İstanbul Film Festivali Koordinatörü ve 2003 yılından beri İstanbul Film Festivali Yönetmen Yardımcısı olarak görev yapıyordu.

Azize Tan ayrıca 5., 6. ve 7. İstanbul Bienalleri’nde de koordinatör olarak çalışmıştı.

İstanbul Film Festivali’nin yeni yönetmeni Azize Tan, Notre Dame de Sion Fransız Lisesi ve Boğaziçi Üniversitesi mezunudur, İngilizce ve Fransızca bilmektedir.

Istanbul Film Festival Director Hülya Uçansu

Thursday, April 13, 2006

Istanbul Film Festival Director Hulya Ucansu resigned yesterday. Ucansu will leave her post after the close of the 25th Istanbul Film Festival, according to a statement released by the Istanbul Culture Art Foundation (IKSV), organizers of the festival.

The resignation of Ucansu, working for the festival since 1983 and serving as director since 1984, announced during the second and final week of the festival, came as a major shock. Ucansu had wanted to inform the foreign guests of her decision which is why she announced her resignation before the festival ended.

See: İstanbul Film Festivali’nin gizli kahramanı HÜLYA UÇANSU

Hülya Uçansu

She was born in 1950 in Bandirma, Turkey. After graduating from the American College in Istanbul in 1971, she studied English Language and Literature at Istanbul University (1973-77). Her links with cinema began as a deputy manager at the Turkish Film Archive in 1975. After working on the organisation of various festivals in Turkey, she was appointed Director of the International Istanbul Film Festival in 1983, a post she has held ever since. In 1996, as the director of this festival, she was responsible for staging a great Turkish Film Retrospective at the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris. She has taken part as a jury member at important international festivals, such as Venice, Montreal, Rotterdam, Montpellier, Valladolid or Taormina.

TIMES AND WINDS by Reha Erdem

TIMES AND WINDS | BEŞ VAKİT
Turkey, 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 100’
Director: Reha Erdem; Cast:Özkan Özen, Ali Bey Kayalı, Elit İşcan

Reha Erdem's eagerly waited latest work after Mommy, I'm Scared, will premier and be first seen by its audience at the festival. A tiny, poor village, leaning on high cliffs, facing the vast sea, its outskirts laced with olive groves. The inhabitants of the village are simple, hard-working people who struggle to cope with the tough natural features of the land. They live by the rhythm of the earth, air, and water, of the day, the night and the seasons. Time in this village is divided into five times with the prayer call sounding. All things human happen in these five times. Three children, passing from childhood into adolescence, all aged twelve-thirteen, Ömer, Yakup and Yıldız, stand out from others in this five-timed film. Five times pass. The children grow up slowly, swinging back and forth between rage and guilt.

Awards | The 25th International İstanbul Film Festival

The 25th International İstanbul Film Festival is coming to an end

İstanbul Film Festival’s Closing Gala and Awards Ceremony took place on the evening of April 14, Saturday at Lütfi Kırdar Congress and Exhibition Hall.

With songs performed by Işın Karaca and Hüsnü Şenlendirici, the Gala was aired live on CNNTürk.

The “Cinema Honorary Awards” were presented to legendary French actors Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve by İKSV President Şakir Eczacıbaşı.

A Cock and Bull Story by Michael Winterbottom won the Golden Tulip Award, which was presented to Joy Wong, the representative of the film’s international distributor The Works, by the president of the Golden Tulip Jury, Jean-Paul Rappeneau.

Awards of the 25th International İstanbul Film Festival

International Competition

The International Jury of the 25th International İstanbul Film Festival presided over by Jean-Paul Rappeneau (France) and composed of Prune Engler (France), Reha Erdem (Turkey); Nick James (United Kingdom), Makram Khoury (Israel), and Işık Yenersu (Turkey) has decided to give:

* The Golden Tulip Award to “A Cock And Bull Story” directed by Michael Winterbottom (United Kingdom) for the simplicity, invention and humour with which the film successfully adapts a notoriously unadaptable novel, celebrating cinema and literature at the same time.

National Competition

The National Jury of the 25th International İstanbul Film Festival presided over by Zuhal Olcay (Turkey), and composed of Reis Çelik (Turkey), Leyla Özalp (Turkey), Daniela Sannwald (Germany) and Giorgio Gosetti di Sturmeck (Italy) has decided to give:

* The Best Turkish Film Of The Year Award to “Beş Vakit / Times And Winds” directed by Reha Erdem; for expressing the universal, the sentiments and conflicts pertaining to all human kind, as well as its courageous approach to taboo subjects with which the society needs to confront, without giving any concessions from cinematic concerns or aesthetics.

* The Best Director Of The Year Award to Kutluğ Ataman for his film “Iki Genç Kiz / Two Girls” for adapting and directing an international contemporary story with a radical aesthetic approach.

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey gave a monetary prize of 40.000 YTL to each of the above-mentioned winners.

* The Best Actress Award to Şerif Sezer for her performance in “Babam ve Oğlum / My Father and Son”;

* The Best Actor Award has been conferred to Fikret Kuşkan for his performance in “Babam ve Oğlum / My Father and Son”;

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey gave a monetary prize of 10.000 YTL to each of the above-mentioned winners.

* The Special Prize Of The Jury went to The People Of Muğla for their heartfelt support they have given to the art of cinema as cast and crew members in the film “Dondurmam Gaymak / Ice Cream, I Scream”.

Fipresci Awards

The FIPRESCI Jury of the 25th International Istanbul Film Festival presided over by Blagoja Kunovski (Macedonia), and composed of Ahmed Hassouna (Egypt), Ayla Kanbur (Turkey), Anita Piotrowska (Poland), Antti Selkokari (Finland) and Fırat Yücel (Turkey), gave:

* The FIPRESCI Award in the International Competition to “A Cock And Bull Story” by Michael Winterbottom (United Kingdom), for its challenging and original approach towards adapting the novel that seems to be impossible to be adapted.

* The FIPRESCI Award in the National Competition, in memory of Onat Kutlar, went to “Beş Vakit / Times And Winds” directed by Reha Erdem, for once again, proving his talent in the winning film as beautifully capturing the universal themes of life and death.

As in the previous years, Efes Pilsen has given a prize of US$ 30.000 to the winner of the Onat Kutlar Prize, Reha Erdem, to be used for his next film project.

People’s Choice Awards

People’s Choice Awards sponsored by the Radikal Newspaper and determined by the votes of the Festival audience, are given to:

* “Separate Lies” by Julian Fellowes (United Kingdom) in the International Competition, and “Babam Ve Oğlum / My Father And Son” by Çağan Irmak in the National Competition.