The festival season of cinephiles begins. September will host more than one festival. While Adana is preparing to hold the 29th Golden Boll Film Festival on September 12-18, Ayvalık will introduce a brand new festival to Turkish cinema on September 16-21.
The Ayvalık International Film Festival, which did not include the competition in its first year, sets out to become a brand in the festival calendar with Cannes award-winning productions, Turkish productions that left their mark on last year, and events for cinema students and children.
SALIHA SULTAN
Summer is over, the festival season of cinephiles has arrived. More than one festival awaits cinephiles this September. While Adana is preparing to host the 29th Golden Boll Film Festival on September 12-18, Ayvalık will introduce a brand new festival to Turkish cinema on September 16-21. Ayvalık International Film Festival, which will be held for the first time this year by the Seyir Association, makes a quick entrance to the festival world with domestic and foreign productions that are highly anticipated and resonated in world festivals. The festival, whose director is Azize Tan and whose program advisor is Fatih Özgüven, includes film screenings, interviews with directors, producers, screenwriters and actors, panels on current issues, the ‘Young Cinema’ program that will host 30 students in the city, Cüneyt Cebenoyan Children’s and Cinema Meetings. will also host screening and drama workshops for children. Within the scope of the festival, which did not include a competition section in its first year; A name at the beginning of his career, who draws attention with his success in front of or behind the camera, in any field of cinema during the year, will be given the ‘New …’ award with the support of Mey|Diageo. After Ayvalık, the festival will present a special selection to the audience in Diyarbakır on September 24 and 25 in collaboration with Mordem Sanat.
In the festival, which determined the opening film as Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave, which was awarded this year’s ‘Best Director’ award in Cannes, the master director of South Korean cinema, Future Crimes by David Cronenberg, AI (EO) by Jerzy Skolimowski, Mia Hansen-Løve Many productions such as A Beautiful Morning by François Ozon, Peter von Kant by François Ozon, Bitter Tears by Petra Von Kant by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Andreas Dresen’s Berlin-winning film Rabiye Cunning Against George W. Bush will meet with the audience. From Turkish cinema, Tayfun Pirselimoğlu’s Kerr, Ali Kemal Güven’s Locksmith Table, Ali Tansu Turhan’s first feature Dialogue, Ziya Demirel’s Ela and Hilmi and Ali, Nazlı Elif Durlu’s Zuhal, Çiğdem Sezgin’s new film Suna’ Also, Cem Demirer’s Mendirek is among the productions to be screened in Ayvalık. At the Ayvalık International Film Festival, a special program has been prepared for the names we have recently lost. Conscience in memory of Erden Kıral; Two-Headed Giant by Orhan Oğuz in memory of Cüneyt Arkın; Faces, directed by John Cassavetes in memory of Cem Madra, will be screened in memory of master director Peter Brook, Seven Days… Seven Nights. Film screenings at the festival will be held at Ayvalık Municipality Vural Cinema, Nejat Uygur Stage, Ayvalık Municipality Great Park Amphitheater and Old Village Market Square. Ayvalık International Film Festival will be on sale on Biletix as of September 9, with full tickets for 50 TL and discounted tickets for 30 TL. Screenings at the Old Villagers’ Market Square will be free of charge. You can see all the details of the festival at ‘ayvalikff.org’.
THE CLASSICS OF FOUR MASTERS OF CINEMA HISTORY ARE IN ADANA
Days before the Adana Golden Boll Film Festival, which had announced the national competition selection in the previous days, side events continue to come to light. This year, the festival will commemorate with special screenings the four great masters of the history of cinema, Satyajit Ray, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Luis Buñuel and Robert Bresson, all of whom are unique creators, theorists and pioneers, who deeply influenced young people as well as their own generations. Ray, one of the great masters of Indian and world cinema, will be remembered with the most popular works of his filmography, ‘Road Lament’, ‘The Invincible’ and ‘The World of Apu’, which make up the Apu Trilogy. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s first film, ‘The Beggar’, will be screened in which he criticizes corruption in Italy due to his 100th birthday. One of the most important representatives of surrealist cinema, Luis Buñuel’s 43-minute film ‘Land Without Bread’, inspired by the reclusive life of the Syriac Elder Aziz Samaan, who was born in Sis, Adana Kozan, will be screened. Jerzy Skolimowski, one of the masters of Polish cinema, will be remembered with the movie ‘Random Balthazar’.