62. Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival Announced

 The films competing for the Golden Orange in the National Feature Film, National Short Film, and National Documentary Film Competitions at the 62nd International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival have been announced.

The National Feature Film Competition of the 62nd International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, which will be held from October 24 to November 2, 2025, features 12 films.

The pre-selection committee for the National Feature Film Competition includes Prof. Dr. Nazlı Eda Noyan, founding chair of the Cartoon and Animation Department at Bahçeşehir University's Faculty of Communication; Hüseyin Kuzu, screenwriter, author, and academic; and Associate Professor Dr. Suncem Koçer, faculty member at Koç University's Department of Media and Visual Arts. The competition features a wide range of films from diverse cinematic cultures.

The awards for the 62nd International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival will be announced at the awards ceremony to be held on Saturday, November 1, 2025.

National Feature Film Competition

• Aldığımız Nefes / As We Breath — Director: Şeyhmus Altun | Producer: Şeyhmus Altun, Fevziye Hazal Yazan

• Bağlar, Kökler ve Tutkular/Ties, Roots, and Passions — Director: Sunay Terzioğlu | Producer: Timur Harzadın

• Barcelona/Barcelo — Director: Erdem Yener | Producers: Hüseyin Yener, Erdem Yener

• Doğudan Fragmanlar/Trailers from the East — Director: K. Erkan Yazıcı | Producer: Mahpare Tanın, Myrıam Carrel

• En Güzel Cenaze Şarkıları/The Most Beautiful Funeral Songs — Director: Ziya Demirel | Producer: Anna M aria Aslanoğlu, Emre Oskay

• Erken Kışlar/Ealy Winter — Director: Özcan Alper | Producers: Emre Oskay, Soner Alper

• Kanto — Director: Ensar Altay | Producers: Süleyman Civliz, Ensar Altay

• Noir — Director: Ragıp Ergün | Producers: Özlem Öcalmaz Yıldız, Jeanne-Peri Foucault, Ozan Yıldız, Ragıp Ergün

• Kesilmiş Bir Ağaç Gibi /Like a Felled Tree — Director: Tunç Davut | Producers: Sinem Altındağ, Hakkı Yazıcı, Cem Yılmazer, Tunç Davut, Faruk Güven

• Parçalı Yıllar/Fragmented Years — Director: Hasan Tolga Pulat | Producers: Tuncay Kaymaz, Tayfun Burus

• Sahibinden Rahmet /Mercy from the Owner — Directors: Emre Sert, Gözde Yetişkin | Producers: Kerem Çelebi, Emre Sert, Gözde Yetişkin, Ender Sevim

• Tavşan İmparatorluğu /Empire of the Rabbits— Director & Producer: Seyfettin Tokmak

EMPIRE OF THE RABBITS / TAVŞAN İMPARATORLUĞU
Seyfettin Tokmak | TÜRKİYE, MEXICO, CROATIA

Somewhere in rural Turkey, 12-year-old Musa has recently lost his mother, and his father Beko is now insisting that the boy join other local boys in pretending to be disabled and attending a special needs school a money-making scheme designed to cheat the state of disability funding run by Beko’s criminal boss Muzaffer He also runs an illegal greyhound race, with Beko providing the rabbits for prey while he learns the tricks of playing a cripple from Muzaffer’s young daughter Nergis. As the suppression of their adult world increases, Musa rescues her into his dream of a rabbit empire founded in an old mine.

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