Vesuvio Award to "Enclave" of Serbia Radovanovic
Next prize! to Turkish "Dust Cloth" Ahu Ozturk
For New Italian Cinema "Wide Blue Delivery" Alessandro Cattaneo
"Enclave" of Serbian director Goran Radovanovic has won the Award for Best Picture Vesuvius 18th Naples Film Festival, the competition Europe & Mediterranean, "For bringing to the attention of the public the discomfort of the Serb minority in Kosovo in the postwar years, through a photography theme and a conscious directing. ""Enclave" is the story of a Serbian boy who has to cross a border to get to school and goes there every day in a tank, accompanied by the army UN. The Forward Prize! for distribution in the Italian cinema, offered by Lab80 goes to the turkish film "Dust Cloth" Ahu Ozturk that tells of two domestic Kurdish women in good neighborhoods of Istanbul. A special mention went to "Simshar" Rebecca Cremona, which tells of a family of fishermen and in the background the plight of migrants in Malta and Lampedusa "for its ability to involve the viewer prompting him to reflect on the current problem of illegal immigration" . For New Italian Cinema section is won by "Wide Blue Delivery" by Alessandro Cattaneo, made on board a merchant ship around the world, special mention to "Beyond the result" of Emanuele Gaetano Forte.
Mavi Boncuk |
"In Turkey, just as everywhere, it’s more than often a case of born poor, stay poor, especially for Kurds. In her first feature film, director Ahu Öztürk, who is herself Kurdish, shows this with the life histories of two Kurdish cleaning women in Istanbul. Öztürk also wrote the script.Young Nesrin and her older friend Hatun are Kurdish women who both work as cleaning women in a fashionable part of Istanbul’s Asian neighbourhood. After a fight, timid, nervous Nesrin kicked out her husband. It was only intended as a warning, but then he doesn’t return. Nesrin and her little girl Asmin face increasing financial difficulties. Tougher Hatun still dreams big dreams of buying a house for herself. She knows she doesn’t need to expect anything from her husband, and although she’s a Muslim she even prays for her dream in a Christian church. Allah will surely forgive her."
international title:Dust Cloth
original title:Toz bezi
country:Turkey, Germany
year:2016
genre:fiction
directed by:Ahu Öztürk
film run:98'
screenplay:Ahu Öztürk
cast:Asiye Dinçsoy, Nazan Kesal, Serra Yilmaz, Mehmet Özgür, Didem İnselel, Asel Yalın, Yusuf Ancu
cinematography by:Meryem Yavuz
film editing:Ali Aga
art director:Asli Dadak, Barış Yıkılmaz
costumes designer:Seda Yılmaz
music:Mustafa Bölükbaşı
producer:Cigdem Mater, Nesra Gürbüz, Stefan Gieren
production:Ret Film, The Story Bay
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AHU ÖZTÜRK | Born in Istanbul (Turkey) in 1976, Ahu Öztürk studied philosophy at the Ege University of Izmir. She followed it up with an education in film and television at the Marmara University in 2002 and has been working on various film projects since. In 2004, she directed her first documentary Chest. In 2010, she participated to ‘Tales from Kars’ of Festival on Wheels with her short Open Wound. Open Wound has been showed in many international film festivals such as Rotterdam, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Sarajevo, Beirut. Dust Cloth (2015) is Öztürk’s first feature film and had the international premiere in Berlinale Forum in 2016 and got the Best Film, Best Actress and Best Script awards in Istanbul Film Festival in 2016.