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The annual
London Turkish Film Festival celebrated its eighth year by
showing more films than before, expanding to two weeks, and
also including other London and regional cinemas for the first
time. Once again it provided London's Turkish speaking community
and cinema-goers in general with a chance to see the best
new Turkish films.
This
year's festival included:
-
Atif
Yilmaz's AFTER THE FALL, the poignant story of a
childhood spent in the aftermath of the military coup of
12 September 1980.
- Halit
Refig's '60s classic BIRDS OF EXILE about migration
from the provinces to Istanbul and the contrast between
the two different worlds.
- Gursel
Ates & Yasar Guner's BORDER, a tense drama about
a group of students who try to help the survivors of the
1998 Northern Iraq Halepce massacre, but are caught up in
the conflict.
- Gani
Mujde's BYZANTIUM, a hilarious pastiche of the traditional
historical epic and a huge box office hit in Turkey.
- Nuri
Bilge Ceylan's CLOUDS OF MAY, a beautiful, humorous
and subtle biographical film in which a film director tries
to persuade his family and friends to participate in a film
about life in the countryside. Winner of this year's European
Film Critics Award - Prix FIPRESCI.
- Mustafa
Altioklar's ELEVATOR, a fantasy thriller in which
a media personality is imprisoned in a lift.
- Omer
Vargi's EVERYTHING'S GONNA BE GREAT, a popular comedy
thriller starring two of Turkey's most popular entertainers,
singer Mazhar Alanson, and stand-up comedian Cem Yilmaz.
- Reha
Erdem's RUN FOR MONEY, an entertaining black comedy
about the insidious power of money.
- Zeki
Demirkubuz's THE THIRD PAGE, an intriguing Kafkaesque
drama concerning a television extra who becomes involved
in murder.
- Ismail
Gunes' WHERE THE ROSE WILTED, the powerful story
of a young man's life in the aftermath of imprisonment and
torture.
- Two
road movies made by young German Turkish film makers, Fatih
Akin's second feature IN JULY and Ayse Polat's first
feature TOUR ABROAD.
- Two
programmes of short and low budget independent film and
videos. The highlight of the second programme on Saturday
16 December is a low budget feature film THE OUTCAST
shot in the East End by local independent film maker, Kenan
Hudaverdi.
We also
welcomed to the festival: Hatice Ayten (director PEOPLE
ON THE STEPS), Gani Mujde (director BYZANTIUM), Ayse
Polat (director TOUR ABROAD) and Halit Refig (director
BIRDS OF EXILE).
Three
films, CLOUDS OF MAY, RUN FOR MONEY and THE THIRD
PAGE will also be shown at other cinemas including the
Tricycle Cinema in Kilburn on the weekend of 16/17 December
and Edinburgh Filmhouse, Riverside Studios Hammersmith, Bristol
Watershed, Oxford Phoenix Picture House and Cambridge Arts
Picture House in January and February. See Festival on Tour
for more information.
The
festival received funding support from the British Film
Institute and the London Film and Development Agency.
Tricycle Cinema
269
Kilburn High Rd, London NW6 (020 7328 1000)
|
| Sat
16 Dec |
CLOUDS
OF MAY |
4.00 |
| Sun
17 Dec |
RUN
FOR MONEY |
4.00
|
|
Riverside
Studios Cinema
Crisp Rd, London W6 (020 8237 1111) |
| Sun
14 Jan |
CLOUDS
OF MAY |
2.00 |
| (double
bill) |
+
RUN FOR MONEY |
4.10 |
|
Watershed
Cinema
1 Canon's Rd, Harbourside, Bristol
(0117 925 3845) |
| Sun
21 Jan |
CLOUDS
OF MAY |
2.00 |
| Wed
24 Jan |
THE
THIRD PAGE |
6.00 |
| Sun
28 Jan |
RUN
FOR MONEY |
3.00
|
|
Filmhouse
88 Lothian Rd, Edinburgh (0131 228 2688) |
| Mon
8 & Tue 9 Jan |
CLOUDS
OF MAY |
|
| Mon
15 & Tue 16 Jan |
THE
THIRD PAGE |
|
| Mon
22 & Tue 23 Jan |
RUN
FOR MONEY |
|
|
Phoenix
Picture House
57 Walton St, Oxford (01865 512526) |
| Sun
21 Jan |
THE
THIRD PAGE |
|
| Sun
28 Jan |
CLOUDS
OF MAY |
|
| Sun
4 Feb |
RUN
FOR MONEY |
|
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|
Arts
Picture House
St Andrews St, Cambridge (01223 328383)
|
| Sun
28 Jan |
THE
THIRD PAGE |
|
| Sun
4 Feb |
CLOUDS
OF MAY |
|
| Sun
11 Feb |
RUN
FOR MONEY
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