The 16th London Turkish Film Festival is a film festival held in

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which ran from November 4 to 18, 2010. During the course of the festival seventeen feature films and two programmes of shorts were presented at the Apollo Theatre and the Rio Cinema. The festival began with an opening gala at the Empire, Leicester Square, attended by Turkish Ambassador to London Ünal Çeviköz, Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism official Abdurrahman Çelik, actor

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, film and theater star Genco Erkal and director Çağan Irmak, at which the Golden Wings awards for Lifetime Achievement and Digiturk Digital Distribution were presented and ''

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'' ( tr, Prensesin Uykusu) directed by Çağan Irmak received its world premiere.

Awards

* Golden Wings Lifetime Achievement Award:

(actor) * Golden Wings Digiturk Digital Distribution Award: ''

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Programmes

Opening Film

* ''

'' ( tr, Prensesin Uykusu) directed by Çağan Irmak

Golden Wings Digiturk Digital Distribution Competition

Five Turkish films made in the preceding year were selected to compete in the festival’s feature film competition.

Competition Jury

* Catharine des Forges ( Independent Cinema Office director) *

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(film writer and critic) *

Sevin Okyay Sevin Okyay (Istanbul, 1942) is a Turkish literary critic, journalist, author, regular columnist and a prolific translator. Sevin had been a radio host and a teacher as well. Biography She is a graduate of the Arnavutköy American Girl's (High ...

(Turkish film critic, writer and translator) * Louis Savy ( Sci-Fi-London festival programmer and director)

Films in Competition

* '' Cosmos'' ( tr, Kosmos) directed by Reha Erdem * '' The Crossing'' ( tr, Kavşak) directed by

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* ''

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'' ( tr, Karanlıktakiler) directed by Çağan Irmak * ''

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Out of Competition Showings

* '' Based Down South'' (german: Wir Sitzen im Süden) directed by Martina Priessner *''

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'' ( tr, Siyah Beyaz) directed by Ahmet Boyacıoğlu * ''

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'' ( tr, Bahtı Kara) directed by Theron Patterson * '' Loose Cannons'' ( it, Mine Vaganti) directed by

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* '' Müezzin'' directed by Sebastian Brameshuber * ''

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* '' Resurrecting: The Street Walker directed by Özgür Uyanık * '' Tales From Kars'' ( tr, Kars Öyküleri) directed by Özcan Alper, Ülkü Oktay, Emre Akay, Ahu Öztürk & Zehra Derya Koç * ''

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'' ( tr, Turkuaz) directed by Kadir Balcı

"Yusuf Trilogy" by Semih Kaplanoğlu

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External links

* for the festival

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:London Turkish Film Festival 2010 film festivals 2010 festivals in Europe 2010 in London

Awards

Programmes

Opening Film

Golden Wings Digiturk Digital Distribution Competition

Competition Jury

Films in Competition

Out of Competition Showings

"Yusuf Trilogy" by Semih Kaplanoğlu

See also

External links

References