Films to compete in the 55th International Antalya Film Festival this year are announced. 8 international and 2 national important films with take place in the international competition category that will host the best of the world cinema. The films added to the competition list prepared by Mike Downey, the Artistic Director of the festival to take place between September 29 and October 5, are as follows:
Hirokazu Koreeda - Shoplifters
Alvaro Brechner - A-Twelve-Years-Night
Pawel Pawlikowski - Cold War
Nadine Labaki - Capernaum
Sergey Dvortsevoy - Ayka
Derek Doneen - Kailash
Cristine Gallego and Ciro Guerra - Birds of Passage
Jafar Panahi - Three Faces
Mustafa Karadeniz - Planetree[1]
Sefa Öztürk Çolak - Trust[2]
Plane Tree - (Çınar) 2017 /Turkey/ 94’ / color
[1] Director Mustafa Karadeniz
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Berlin European Film Market (EFM) 2018
Mustafa lives in an inherited two-room house in a poor, out-of-the-way village in Kars, an area of northeastern Turkey with long, savage winters. He and his wife, Suna, have a disabled son, Rıza, who is unable to walk. He works as a driver for a public corporation in the nearest town, but has to ride there on horseback every day because the roads are so bad.
One day, when Suna is carrying Rıza the long distance to school, she is hit by a minibus driv- ing past at high speed. Both mother and child are taken to hospital, but are lucky to have no serious injuries. During a series of routine tests, however, it turns out that Rıza’s blood type doesn’t match that of either parent. Subse- quent investigations reveal that Rıza was mixed up with another baby born at the hospital the same day. Suna and Mustafa are now faced with a momentous decision: should they swap their foster son for their birth son?
Mustafa Karadeniz (1979) is a graduate in film and television studies and has worked in the film indus- try for 15 years. He began his career as a production assistant on feature films and television series and has since directed and produced numerous televi- sion commercials and music videos. Plane Tree is his directorial debut.
Trust (Güven) 2017 / Turkey / 90' / color
[2] Trust (Güven). 2017 / Drama / 90. Director. Sefa Öztürk Çolak. Cast. Bülent Çolak, Gözde Çıhacı, Ahmet Kaynak Producer. Serkan Acar. Production Company. FilmFabrik.Winning the 2017 Antalya Film Forum Work in Progress Award,
Sefa Öztürk Çolak directed and wrote "Trust," a thriller about the individual and family.
Sefa Öztürk Çolak was born in Düzce, Turkey in 1980. After finishing high school in Düzce, she graduated from Yıldız Technical University with a degree in civil engineering in 2002. Passing on work in the field of construction, she instead worked as a journalist, television programmer and editor. She later worked as an assistant director on cinema and various television shows. She is married and have one child.