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Films that open up New Perspectives in Cinema compete for the grand prize of the festival, the Golden Tulip. The International Golden Tulip Award is given in memory of Şakir Eczacıbaşı, former chairman of İKSV and co-founder of the Istanbul Film Festival.
SUMMER 1993 | ’93 YAZI
MY HAPPY FAMILY | BENİM MUTLU AİLEM
THIS IS OUR LAND | BU ÜLKE BİZİM
WEIRDOS | CİNSLER
IN BETWEEN | DUVARLAR ARASINDA
THE GIRL WITHOUT HANDS | ELLERİ OLMAYAN KIZ
HOME | EV
ANIMALS | HAYVANLAR |
CASTING | KASTİNG
LADY MACBETH | LADY MACBETH
MANIFESTO | MANIFESTO
THE ORNITHOLOGIST | ORNİTOLOG
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JURY
REHA ERDEM (President)
Born in Istanbul, he has graduated from Cinema Department of Paris 8 University where he also obtained his MA in Plastic Arts. He shot his first feature-length film Oh Moon in 1989. He directed Run for Money in 1999, Mommy, I’m Scared in 2004, Times and Winds which won the Golden Tulip at Istanbul Film Festival in 2006, My Only Sunshine in 2008, Kosmos in 2009, Jîn in 2012 and Singing Women, a Turkish-French-German co-production in 2013. His latest film is Big Big World which he shot in 2016. He wrote the scripts for all his films except for Mommy I’m Scared, which he co-wrote. He also has short films and directed a stage play, Maids (Les Bonnes) by Jean Genet. He is currently working on two new projects.
KATAYOON SHAHABI
Born in Teheran. She is a holder of PhD in French literature. She started her career in 1982 as a film promoter in Farabi Cinema Foundation, introducing Iranian Cinema to the world. In 1994, she helped launch Cima Media International before establishing her own company, Sheherazad Media International (SMI) in 2001. In 2012, she launched her France-based company, Noori Pictures. Tales was given the Best Screenplay Award in 2014 at Venice Film Festival. In 2015, Wednesday, May 9 won two prizes in the Orizzonti section of Venice; Nahid won the Promising Future Prize in Un Certain Regard section of Cannes. The 2016 Un Certain Regard title Inversion is in this year’s festival programme. She was a jury member in several acclaimed international festivals, including Rotterdam, San Sebastian, and Cannes.
SYLLAS TZOUMERKAS
Born in 1978 in Thessaloniki. He studied theatre, film direction, and acting in Athens, Utrecht and New York. He directed the dogma-like b&w short film The Devouring Eyes which participated in competition at the 2001 Cannes Cinéfondation and won the Jury Prize of the 2001 Karlovy Vary Film Festival. As an actor, he participated in stage and live-cinema performances, feature, and short films. His first feature film, Hora Proelefsis / Homeland, had its world premiere at the International Critics’ Week of the 2010 Venice Film Festival; and participated in many international festivals. His second feature, A Blast, had its world premiere at Locarno in 2014 and was screened in Istanbul Film Festival. His next film project, The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea is in-development.
GABE KLINGER
He is an award-winning filmmaker, film studies professor, and author. His acclaimed documentary Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater (2013) won a Lion for Best Documentary in Venice and screened at over 100 leading events and venues worldwide including SXSW, Rotterdam, CPH:DOX, TIFF Bell Lightbox, and the IFC Center. His articles have appeared in Sight & Sound, Film Comment, and Cinema Scope. He has taught film studies at University of Illinois and Columbia College. His first fiction feature Porto is in the festival programme.
BOYD VAN HOEIJ
He is a Dutch-born freelance film writer based in Paris and Luxembourg. He was a contributing critic for the US trade paper Variety (2008-2013) before moving to The Hollywood Reporter, where he reviews films from all the major international festivals, including Sundance, Berlin, Cannes and Venice. He’s also the film editor of Winq magazine (Netherlands) and regularly contributes to De Filmkrant (Netherlands). His book on contemporary Francophone Belgian cinema, 10/10, appeared in September 2010. He has taught film-criticism short courses and conducted shot-by-shot analyses of film classics in several countries.
[1]The International Istanbul Film Festival was first presented as a film week in the summer of 1982, within the framework of the International Istanbul Festival. In 1983, under the title “International Istanbul Film Days”, 36 films were shown in one month.
Beginning in 1984, the event became a separate activity and was shifted to April. In 1985, with the incentive of Şakir Eczacıbaşı, two competitive sections, one national and the other international, were included in the Festival program. The grand prize of the festival, the first ever Golden Tulip, was given this year to Michael Radford for his film 1984. Accredited by FIAPF (International Federation of Film Producers Associations) since 1989 as a “specialised competitive festival”, the “film week” thus was renamed the Istanbul Film Festival.
In 2007, the Human Rights in Cinema section of the festival programme became competitive and started giving the FACE Award (Film Award of the Council of Europe) in collaboration with the Council of Europe and Eurimages. This award is given only at the International Istanbul Film Festival. In January 2010, upon the death of İKSV chairman and co-founder of the festival Şakir Eczacıbaşı, the International Golden Tulip Award started to be given in his memory, with the support of the Eczacıbaşı Group. In 2013, in memory of writer, director, producer Seyfi Teoman, the Festival established the Seyfi Teoman Best Debut Film prize. In 2015, a documentary competition, and in 2016 a short film competition were set up for films produced in Turkey.
In 2006, celebrating its 25th year, Istanbul Film Festival launched the Meetings on the Bridge programme, aims to provide a launch area for co-productions while bringing producers, directors, scriptwriters, and representatives of institutions from Turkey and Europe together. Within the frame of the Meetings on the Bridge programme, a Feature Film Project Development Workshop was initiated in 2008, and a Work in Progress workshop in 2012. In 2011, the Turkish-German Co-production Fund was formed by collaboration of the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein film funds. In order to establish and strengthen relations with filmmakers from neighbouring countries, the “Neighbours” platform was initiated in 2016.
The Festival features an international competition, provides a showcase for recent Turkish film productions, and thus represents a rewarding medium where Turkish and foreign filmmakers get together. The Festival draws a special interest to world classics, presenting retrospective, and curated sections included in its programme which comprises approximately 200 titles, making the Festival the most comprehensive film festival in Turkey. With an audience of 90,000 in 2016, it is also considered the biggest film festival.
The Festival, whose aim is “to encourage the development of cinema in Turkey, to help Turkish cinema attain international recognition and to promote films of quality in the Turkish market”, has also introduced international institutions and organizations like EURIMAGES to the Turkish market.