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100Th Year Of Turkish Cinema To Be Marked In Athens With Film Week

21.10.2014 17:23

The centenary year of Turkish cinema will be celebrated in Greece this month with a selection of both classical and contemporary Turkish films being screened in Athens as part of a Turkish film week.Director, screenwriter and author Tayfun Pirselimoğlu's doppelganger drama “Ben O Değilim,” (I Am Not.

The centenary year of Turkish cinema will be celebrated in Greece this month with a selection of both classical and contemporary Turkish films being screened in Athens as part of a Turkish film week.

Director, screenwriter and author Tayfun Pirselimoğlu's doppelganger drama “Ben O Değilim,” (I Am Not Him), a co-production between Greece and Turkey, will open the film week, set to be held from Oct. 23 to 29 at the Greek Film Archive Film Museum. “I Am Not Him” was named the best film in the national feature film competition of the 33rd İstanbul Film Festival and bagged best screenplay award at the 2013 Rome Film Festival. It will get its Greece premiere as part of the film week.

The other contemporary films on the film week's program include “Gözümün Nuru,” (Eye Am), a sophomore feature by co-directors Melik Saraçoğlu and Hakkı Kurtuluş, Ali Aydın's debut feature “Küf” (Mold), Reha Erdem's “Kosmos” (Cosmos), “Yozgat Blues” a sophomore film by Mahmut Fazıl Coşkun, actor-director Yılmaz Erdoğan's “Kelebeğin Rüyası” (The Butterfly's Dream) and Atıl İnaç's newest film “Daire” (Circle).

Yılmaz Güney and Şerif Gören's 1981 film “Yol” (The Road), the first Turkish film to win the coveted Palme d'Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1982, Atıf Yılmaz's “Selvi Boylum Al Yazmalım” (The Girl with the Red Scarf), adapted to big screen from iconic Kyrgyz writer Cengiz Aytmatov's short story “The Red Scarf,” and Ömer Lütfi Akad's 1973 drama “Gelin,” starring veteran actress Hülya Koçyiğit, are among the classical Turkish films to be shown at the film week.

Şoray and Koçyiğit will take part in question-and-answer sessions following the screening of their films to discuss Turkish cinema.

The second day of the film week will feature a meeting where Koçyiğit, Pirselimoğlu, Mahir Günşiray, Saadet Işıl Aksoy, Nazan Kesal, Ercan Kesal and a representative from the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism will come together to discuss the 100th year of Turkish cinema.

(Cihan/Today's Zaman)



 
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