Turkish Radio and Televisin (TRT')s success in the field of international cinema continues. 3 films signed by TRT will compete at the 76th Cannes Film Festival. Nuri Bilge Ceylan's TRT production About Dry Grasses "Kuru Otlar Üstüne"[1] and TRT co-productions Jessica Hausner's "Club Zero"[2] and Alice Rohrwacher's "La Chimera" [3]were selected for the main competition section of the festival.
SEE: Mavi Boncuk Posting on N.B.Ceylan's latest film. About Dry Grasses
Selection Announcement PRESS CONFERENCE
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[1] One of the leading directors of Turkish cinema, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's new TRT production About Dry Grasses "Kuru Otlar Üstüne" was selected for the main competition section of the 76th Cannes Film Festival. Focusing on the events that happened to Samet, an art teacher who is doing his compulsory service in a remote town in Eastern Anatolia, and which he finds difficult to make sense of, the film "Kuru Otlar Üstüne" will have its world premiere at the 76th Cannes Film Festival.
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[3] TRT co-production "La Chimera", the latest film by Alice Rohrwacher, one of Italy's most important directors today, will compete at the Cannes Film Festival. Set in 1980s Italy, the film tells the story of Arthur, a young British archaeologist who becomes involved in an international smuggling network of stolen Etruscan artifacts.
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The film, which will make its world premiere at the festival. The director's 2018 film "Happy Lazzaro" won the Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival, and the 2014 film "Miracles" won the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
Ruben Östlund, director of the TRT co-production "Triangle of Sadness", chairman of the festival jury
Ruben Östlund, the director of the TRT co-production "Triangle of Sadness", was the head of the main competition jury of the 76th Cannes Film Festival, where ambitious films will compete for the Palme d'Or. Ruben Östlund won the "Golden Palm Award" for the best film at the 75th Cannes Film Festival last year with the movie "Triangle of Sadness". The film, which was screened in many festivals, won awards in the categories of "Best Film", "Best Director", "Best Screenplay" and "Best Actor" at the European Film Awards, known as Europe's Oscar. The film also received 3 Oscar nominations for "Best Picture", "Best Director" and "Best Original Screenplay" at the 95th Academy Awards.
Kürşat Üresin and Cevahir Şahin, who work as TRT personnel, are the cinematographers of this project of the master director who won the "TRT Respect to the Master Award" in 12 Punto 2020 with his project "Kuru Otlar Üstüne". TRT personnel also took part in the camera, sound, lighting and editing teams of the film, which was produced with the support of TRT's team and equipment. Nuri Bilge Ceylan in 2014; He won the Palme d'Or with his film "Winter Sleep" and returned with awards from the Cannes Film Festival with his films "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia", Distant and "Three Monkeys".
[2]TRT co-production "Club Zero", the new film of successful Austrian director Jessica Hausner, will compete at the 76th Cannes Film Festival. The film tells the story of teacher Novak and her students, who told her students that eating less is healthier in her "conscious eating" class. When other teachers and parents begin to realize the gravity of the situation, it is too late because Club Zero has become a reality. Famous actress Mia Wasikowska plays the leading role of the movie, which will make its world premiere at the festival. Jessica Hausner's 2019 film "Little Joe" won the "Best Actress" award at the Cannes Film Festival, while the films "Amour Fou", "Hotel" and "Lovely Rita" competed in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes.
Shot in Oxford, UK and Austria, CLUB ZERO is the the sixth feature from celebrated Austrian film-maker Jessica Hausner.
[3] TRT co-production "La Chimera", the latest film by Alice Rohrwacher, one of Italy's most important directors today, will compete at the Cannes Film Festival. Set in 1980s Italy, the film tells the story of Arthur, a young British archaeologist who becomes involved in an international smuggling network of stolen Etruscan artifacts.
La Chimera re-unites Rohrwacher with several longtime collaborators, including top French DOP Hélène Louvart, editor Nelly Quettier, production designer Emita Frigato and costume designer Loredana Buscemi. The casting was curated by Chiara Polizzi and Fiona Weir.
Emmy-winning “The Crown” star Josh O’Connor will be the protagonist of Italian auteur Alice Rohrwacher’s next film “La Chimera,” which is set in the world of archeological looting WAS SHOT in and around Southern Tuscany.
O’Connor, who in “The Crown” played the young Prince Charles, in “La Chimera” is playing a young British archeologist named Arthur who gets involved in an international network of stolen Etruscan artifacts during the 1980s.
Also starring in “La Chimera,” which can be loosely translated as “The Unrealizable Dream,” are Isabella Rossellini as a retired opera singer; Brazil’s Carol Duarte (“The Invisible Life”) who plays another non-Italian woman who intersects with Arthur; Alba Rohrwacher as an international artifacts trafficker; and Vincenzo Nemolato (“Martin Eden”) who plays one of the “tombaroli,” literally grave robbers, as artifacts thieves are known in Italy.