film festival
A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region. Increasingly, film festivals show some films outdoors. Films may be of recent date and, depending upo ...
held in
Ankara
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,
Turkey
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that ran from March 11 to 21, 2010.
This edition of the
Ankara International Film Festival
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, organized by The World Mass Media Research Foundation and accredited by FIPRESCI, opened with a gala on the evening of March 10 at the Presidential Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall, at which the foundation special awards were presented, and closed with a screening of '' The Dust of Time'' () directed by
Theodoros Angelopoulos
Theodoros "Theo" Angelopoulos (; ; 27 April 1935 – 24 January 2012) was a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer. He dominated the Greek art film industry from 1975 on, and Angelopoulos was one of the most influential and widely re ...
.
11 films competed in the National Feature Competition, 28 films competed in the National Short Film Competition under fiction, experimental and animation categories and 17 films competed in the National Documentary Film Competition under amateur and professional categories. The festival films were shown at three venues, including Batı Movie Theaters, German Cultural Center and Çankata Municipality Contemporary Arts Center with the final awards being given out in a ceremony held at the Presidential Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall.
Among the filmmakers who were present to present their films at the festival were
Siddiq Barmak
Siddiq Barmak ( fa, صدیق برمک, born September 7, 1962) is an Afghan film director and producer. In 2004, Barmak won Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globes for his first feature film, '' Osama''. He received an M.A. degree in cin ...
Filiz Akın
Filiz Akın (born Suna Akın, 2 January 1943) is a Turkish actress, writer and TV presenter. Known as Yeşilçam Turkish cinema's "noble, modern, urban and elegant face", Filiz Akın gained a huge fan base in Turkey.
* Mass Media Award:
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culture and art programme ''
Gece Gündüz
''Gece Gündüz'' is a police procedural soap produced by the Altıoklar Productions. The main characters are Aslan Aydemir (portrayed by Sarp Levendoğlu) and Kemal (portrayed by Settar Tanrıöğen). They both work at the Istanbul Organized Cr ...
'' produced and presented by Yekta Kopan
* Oak of Art Award: Turkish poet
Gülten Akın
Gülten Akın (23 January 1933 – 4 November 2015) was a Turkish poet. Her poetry is considered to be culturally significant to Turkey.
Akin was born in 1933 in Yozgat, Turkey. She attended Beşiktaş Atatürk Anatolian High School and gradua ...
National feature film competition awards
* Best Film Award: '' Men on the Bridge'' ( tr, Köprüdekiler) directed by Aslı Özge
* Best Movie Director Award:
Pelin Esmer
Pelin Esmer (born 1972, Istanbul) is a Turkish screenwriter and director.
Career
Pelin Esmer studied anthropology at the social sciences department of Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. She made her first short documentary, ''Koleksiyoncu'' (The ...
for ''
10 to 11
''10 to 11'' ( tr, 11'e 10 kala) is a 2009 Turkish drama film directed by Pelin Esmer.
The film, loosely based on the story of Esmer's uncle, Mithat Esmer, who also plays the leading role, follows an elderly collector in İstanbul who lives in a ...
Volga Sorgu
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for ''
Black Dogs Barking
''Black Dogs Barking'' ( tr, Kara Köpekler Havlarken) is a 2009 Turkish drama film, written, produced and directed by Mehmet Bahadır Er with co-director Maryna Er Gorbach, starring Cemal Toktaş as a naive young parking attendant who gets mixe ...
'' ( tr, Kara Köpekler Havlarken)
* Best Supporting Actress Award: Selen Uçar for '' A Step into the Darkness'' ( tr, Büyük Oyun)
* Best Screenplay Award:
Pelin Esmer
Pelin Esmer (born 1972, Istanbul) is a Turkish screenwriter and director.
Career
Pelin Esmer studied anthropology at the social sciences department of Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. She made her first short documentary, ''Koleksiyoncu'' (The ...
for ''
10 to 11
''10 to 11'' ( tr, 11'e 10 kala) is a 2009 Turkish drama film directed by Pelin Esmer.
The film, loosely based on the story of Esmer's uncle, Mithat Esmer, who also plays the leading role, follows an elderly collector in İstanbul who lives in a ...
'' ( tr, 11'e 10 Kala)
* Cinema Writers Association Best Film Award: ''
Black Dogs Barking
''Black Dogs Barking'' ( tr, Kara Köpekler Havlarken) is a 2009 Turkish drama film, written, produced and directed by Mehmet Bahadır Er with co-director Maryna Er Gorbach, starring Cemal Toktaş as a naive young parking attendant who gets mixe ...
'' ( tr, Kara Köpekler Havlarken) directed by
Mehmet Bahadır Er
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and Maryna Gorbach
* Mahmut Tali Öngören Special Award: ''
On the Way to School
''On the Way to School'' ( tr, İki Dil Bir Bavul) is a 2008 Turkish documentary film directed by Orhan Eskiköy and Özgür Doğan. It has attracted 78,000 people in eight weeks, an impressive showing for a documentary.
The film is an openheart ...
'' ( tr, İki Dil Bir Bavul) directed by
Orhan Eskiköy
Orhan Eskiköy (born 1 January 1980) is a Turkish director.
He studied at the Faculty of Communication at Ankara University. In the second grade, he took part in a project with Özgür Doğan. In this period, he decided to make documentary film ...
and
Özgür Doğan
Özgür Doğan (1 January 1978) is a Kurdish filmdirector. His works include '' On the Way to School'' and '' Voice of My Father''.
Biography
Özgür Doğan was born in a Kurdish village in Varto, Muş. He spoke only in Kurdish until the age o ...
10 to 11
''10 to 11'' ( tr, 11'e 10 kala) is a 2009 Turkish drama film directed by Pelin Esmer.
The film, loosely based on the story of Esmer's uncle, Mithat Esmer, who also plays the leading role, follows an elderly collector in İstanbul who lives in a ...
'' ( tr, 11'e 10 Kala) directed by
Pelin Esmer
Pelin Esmer (born 1972, Istanbul) is a Turkish screenwriter and director.
Career
Pelin Esmer studied anthropology at the social sciences department of Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. She made her first short documentary, ''Koleksiyoncu'' (The ...
.
* ''
Black Dogs Barking
''Black Dogs Barking'' ( tr, Kara Köpekler Havlarken) is a 2009 Turkish drama film, written, produced and directed by Mehmet Bahadır Er with co-director Maryna Er Gorbach, starring Cemal Toktaş as a naive young parking attendant who gets mixe ...
'' ( tr, Kara Köpekler Havlarken) directed by
Mehmet Bahadır Er
Mehmed (modern Turkish: Mehmet) is the most common Bosnian and Turkish form of the Arabic name Muhammad ( ar, محمد) (''Muhammed'' and ''Muhammet'' are also used, though considerably less) and gains its significance from being the name of Muh ...
On the Way to School
''On the Way to School'' ( tr, İki Dil Bir Bavul) is a 2008 Turkish documentary film directed by Orhan Eskiköy and Özgür Doğan. It has attracted 78,000 people in eight weeks, an impressive showing for a documentary.
The film is an openheart ...
'' ( tr, İki Dil Bir Bavul) directed by
Orhan Eskiköy
Orhan Eskiköy (born 1 January 1980) is a Turkish director.
He studied at the Faculty of Communication at Ankara University. In the second grade, he took part in a project with Özgür Doğan. In this period, he decided to make documentary film ...
Piano Girl
''Piano Girl'' ( tr, Deli Deli Olma) is a 2009 Turkish comedy-drama film, directed by Murat Saraçoğlu, starring Tarık Akan and Şerif Sezer as two elderly people forced to question their histories and reveal their big secrets. The film, which ...
'' ( tr, Deli Deli Olma) directed by
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Yılmaz Güney
Yılmaz Güney (' Pütün; 1 April 1937 – 9 September 1984) was a Kurdish film director, screenwriter, novelist, and actor. He quickly rose to prominence in the Turkish film industry. Many of his works were devoted to the plight of ordinary wo ...
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* '' The Crab Game'' ( tr, Yengeç Oyunu) directed by
Ali Özgentürk
Ali Özgentürk (born 4 November 1947) is a Turkish film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was born on 4 November 1947 in Adana, Turkey. After studying philosophy and sociology at Istanbul University, he became involved in theater, as an ...
* ''Baghdad'' ( tr, Bağdat) directed by Berrak Samur
* ''On the Coast'' ( tr, Bu Sahilde) directed by Merve Kayan and Zeynep Dadak
* ''The Silence Time'' ( tr, Dema Bêzar) directed by Çiğdem Mazlum and Sertaç Yıldız
* ''The Wall'' ( tr, Duvar) directed by Emre Karadaş and Deniz Oğuzsoy
* ''A Fatal Dress: Polygamy'' ( tr, Kirasê Mirinê: Hewîtî) directed by Müjde Arslan
* ''The Song Of Romeyika'' ( tr, Romeyika'nın Türküsü) directed by Yeliz Karakütük
* ''The Cling'' ( tr, Tutunmak) directed by Musa Ak
* ''The Colors of Zilan'' ( tr, Zilan’ ın Renkleri) directed by Nagihan Çakar
Professional Films in Competition
* ''Prison No 5: 1980–1984'' ( tr, 5 Nolu Cezaevi: 1980–84) directed by Çayan Demirel
* ''The Children of September'' ( tr, Eylül Çocukları) directed by Meltem Öztürk and Hülya Karcı
* ''Bullet and Pen'' ( tr, Kurşun Kalem) directed by Mustafa Ünlü
* ''Lady Mukhtar'' ( tr, Lady Muhtar) directed by Didem Şahin
* ''Miraz'' directed by Rodi Yüzbaşı
* ''An Argonaut in Ordu'' ( tr, Ordu’da Bir Argonot) directed by Rüya Arzu Köksal
* ''Silicosis'' ( tr, Silikozis) directed by Ethem Özgüven, Petra Holzer and Selçuk Erzurumlu
* ''The Last Season: Shawaks'' ( tr, Demsala Dawî: Şewaxan) directed by
Kazim Öz
Kazim Öz (born 1973, Dersim) is a Kurdish film director, scriptwriter and producer. In 1992 he began acting at Teatra Jiyana Nû, while also working on movies.
Early life and education
Kazim Öz lived in the countryside in the Dersim region ...
* ''4857'' directed by Ethem Özgüven, Petra Holzer and Selçuk Erzurumlu
* ''Thoughts on the Cinema of Halit Refiğ'' ( tr, Halit Refiğ Sineması Üzerine Düşünceler) directed by Çetin Tunca.
* ''Istanbul Is Naked'' ( tr, İstanbul Çıplak) directed by Zafer Biçen.
* ''Leyla and Mecnun Abroad'' ( tr, Leyla en Mecnun in den vreemde) directed by Zeynep Özkaya.
* ''Memduh Ün: Big World Of Small People'' ( tr, Memduh Ün: Küçük İnsanların Büyük Dünyası) directed by Çetin Tunca.
* ''The Losers'' ( tr, Kaybedenler) directed by Gül Büyükbeşe Muyan.
* ''Passion of Metin Erksan'' ( tr, Metin Erksan’ın Tutkusu) directed by Sadık Battal.
International Programmes
Power and Rebellion
''Power and Rebellion'' was selected as the basic theme of the festival in order, according to the organisers, to bring up the ''need for an uprise'' to the public agenda of the public, and because, ''In an era of uncertainty and abdication like today, we all need to watch these films and then think about our future once again.''
* '' The Commute'' ( es, El Tránsito) directed by Elías León Siminiani.
* '' Rabbit à la Berlin'' ( pl, Królik po Berlinsku) directed by Bartosz Konopka.
* '' Living on Your Feet: The Struggles of Cipriano Mera'' ( es, Vivir de Pie: Las Guerras de Cipriano Mera) directed by Valentí Figueres.
* ''
Confessions of an Economic Hitman
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'' directed by
Stelios Kouloglou
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* '' Kavalar - The White Zone'' (german: Kavalar - Die Weisse Zone) directed by Ralf Küster.
* '' Stammheim'' (german: Stammheim - Die Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe vor Gericht) directed by
Reinhard Hauff
Reinhard Hauff (born 23 May 1939) is a German film director. His works, which were mostly carried out in the late 1960s to early 1990s, are known for their social and political commentary. ''Stammheim (film), Stammheim'', which is based on the act ...
Lindsay Anderson
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Burn!
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'' ( it, Queimada) directed by
Gillo Pontecorvo
Gilberto Pontecorvo (; 19 November 1919 – 12 October 2006) was an Italian filmmaker associated with the political cinema movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He is best known for directing the landmark war docudrama ''The Battle of Algiers'' (19 ...
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* '' Red Psalm'' ( hu, Még kér a nép) directed by
Miklós Jancsó
Miklós Jancsó (; 27 September 192131 January 2014) was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter.
Jancsó achieved international prominence starting in the mid-1960s with works including '' The Round-Up'' (''Szegénylegények'', 1965), '' ...
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United Red Army
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Margarethe von Trotta
Margarethe von Trotta (; born 21 February 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, and actress. She has been referred to as a "leading force" of the New German Cinema movement.
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Entranced Earth
''Entranced Earth'' ( pt, Terra em Transe , "World in a Trance", also called ''Land in Anguish'' or ''Earth Entranced'') is a 1967 Brazilian ''Cinema Novo'' drama film directed by Glauber Rocha. It was shot in Parque Lage and at the Municipal T ...
'' ( pt, Terra em Transe) directed by
Glauber Rocha
Glauber de Andrade Rocha (; 14 March 1939 – 22 August 1981) was a Brazilian film director, actor and screenwriter. He was one of the most influential moviemakers of Brazilian cinema and a key figure of Cinema Novo. His films ''Black God, White ...
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* ''
Viva Maria!
''Viva Maria!'' is a 1965 adventure comedy film starring Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau as two women named Maria who meet and become revolutionaries in the early 20th century. It also starred George Hamilton as Florès, a revolutionary leade ...
'' directed by
Louis Malle
Louis Marie Malle (; 30 October 1932 – 23 November 1995) was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer who worked in both French cinema and Hollywood. Described as "eclectic" and "a filmmaker difficult to pin down," Malle's filmogr ...
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Masters
''The Masters'' programme exhibited new works by the world's most established and renowned filmmakers such as
Robert Guédiguian
Robert Jules Guédiguian (born 3 December 1953) is a French film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. Most of his films star Ariane Ascaride and Jean-Pierre Darroussin.
Life and career
Guédiguian is the son of a German mother and an Armen ...
,
Theodoros Angelopoulos
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,
Costa-Gavras
Costa-Gavras (short for Konstantinos Gavras; el, Κωνσταντίνος Γαβράς; born 12 February 1933) is a Greek-French film director, screenwriter, and producer who lives and works in France. He is known for films with political and s ...
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Michael Haneke
Michael Haneke (; born 23 March 1942) is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. His work often examines social issues and depicts the feelings of estrangement experienced by individuals in modern society. Haneke has made films in French, G ...
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Achilles and the Tortoise
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'' ( ja, アキレスと亀) directed by
Takeshi Kitano
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The White Ribbon
''The White Ribbon'' (german: Das weiße Band) is a 2009 German-language drama film, written and directed by Michael Haneke. Released in black-and-white, the film offers a dark depiction of society and family in a northern German village just be ...
'' (german: Das Weisse Band - Eine Deutsche Kindergeschichte) directed by
Michael Haneke
Michael Haneke (; born 23 March 1942) is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. His work often examines social issues and depicts the feelings of estrangement experienced by individuals in modern society. Haneke has made films in French, G ...
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* '' Eden Is West'' (french: Eden à l'Ouest) directed by
Costa-Gavras
Costa-Gavras (short for Konstantinos Gavras; el, Κωνσταντίνος Γαβράς; born 12 February 1933) is a Greek-French film director, screenwriter, and producer who lives and works in France. He is known for films with political and s ...
Peter Greenaway
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The Army of Crime
''The Army of Crime'' (french: L'Armée du crime) is a 2009 French drama-war film directed by Robert Guédiguian and based on a story by Serge Le Péron, who is also one of three credited for the screenplay. It received a wide release in France o ...
'' (french: L'Armée du crime) directed by
Robert Guédiguian
Robert Jules Guédiguian (born 3 December 1953) is a French film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. Most of his films star Ariane Ascaride and Jean-Pierre Darroussin.
Life and career
Guédiguian is the son of a German mother and an Armen ...
Theodoros Angelopoulos
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From All Over the World
''From All Over the World'' was a collection of premieres and prize-winning film selections which aims to present the best of current international filmmaking.
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Opium War
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'' directed by
Siddiq Barmak
Siddiq Barmak ( fa, صدیق برمک, born September 7, 1962) is an Afghan film director and producer. In 2004, Barmak won Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globes for his first feature film, '' Osama''. He received an M.A. degree in cin ...
Hanno Höfer
Hanno Höfer (born 8 July 1967 in Timișoara, Romania) is a Romanian movie director, producer, and musician.
Early life and education
Höfer was born in Timișoara and is of German-Romanian descent. When he was about one year old, he moved to Buc ...
Cristian Mungiu
Cristian Mungiu (; born 27 April 1968) is a Romanian filmmaker. He won the Palme d'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival for his film ''4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days'', which he wrote and directed. He has also won the awards for Best Screenplay an ...
The Last Days of Emma Blank
''The Last Days of Emma Blank'' ( nl, De laatste dagen van Emma Blank) is a 2009 Dutch surrealist film directed by Alex van Warmerdam.
Cast
*Marlies Heuer as Emma Blank
*Gene Bervoets as Haneveld
*Annet Malherbe as Bella
* as Gonnie
* Gijs Naber ...
'' ( nl, De laatste dagen van Emma Blank) directed by
Alex van Warmerdam
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Life and career
Van Warmerdam was born in Haarlem, a city in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands. He was cofounder of ...
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The Investigator
''The Investigator'' (1954) was a radio play written by Reuben Ship and first broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) on May 30 of that year. The play lampooned the actions of the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities ...
Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
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Sauvaire was born on 31 De ...
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Mary and Max
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Tarik Saleh
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Korean
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: ''Ddongpari'') directed by
Yang Ik-june
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Career
Born in Seoul in 1975, Yang graduated from the Departme ...
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Tears of April
''Tears of April'' ( fi, Käsky) is a 2008 Finnish war drama film directed by Aku Louhimies. Based on the novel ''Käsky'' by Leena Lander, the film is set in the final stages of the Finnish Civil War.
Plot
The film tells a story of a captur ...
The Other Bank
''The Other Bank'' ( ka, გაღმა ნაპირი) is a 2009 Georgian drama film directed by Giorgi Ovashvili. It was Georgia's submission to the List of submissions to the 82nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, 82nd Academy ...
Klaus Härö
Klaus Härö (born 31 March 1971 in Porvoo, Finland) is a Finnish film director. In 2004, he won Finland's State Prize for Art.
Härö grew up in a Swedish-speaking Finnish family. He studied directing and attended screen writing seminars at the ...
Götz Spielmann
Götz Spielmann (born 11 January 1961) is an Austrian director and scriptwriter.
Life and career
Spielmann was born in Wels, Austria, and grew up in Vienna. After High School, he lived in Paris for several months. From 1980 to 1987 he studied fi ...
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Samson and Delilah
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figures.
Samson and Delilah may also refer to:
In music
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* ''Samson & Delilah'' (album), released in 2013 by V V Brown
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'' directed by
Warwick Thornton
Warwick Thornton (born 1970) is an Australian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. His debut feature film '' Samson and Delilah'' won the Caméra d'Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and the award for Best Film at the Asia Pacific ...
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A Country: Brazil
''A Country: Brazil'' was a lineup of 7 films, which aims to highlight the renaissance Brazilian Cinema has undergone in the 2000s.
* '' The Year My Parents Went on Vacation'' ( pt, O Ano em Que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias) directed by
Cao Hamburger
Carlos Império Hamburger, better known as Cao Hamburger (; born 27 February 1962), is a Brazilian film and television director, screenwriter, and producer. He is one of the creators of the ''Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum'' series of programs for children ...
BirdWatchers
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'' ( pt, La Terra Degli Uomini Rossi) directed by
Marco Bechis
Marco Bechis (born in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean-Italian film screenwriter and director. His film ''Garage Olimpo'' was screened at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section.
Selected filmography
* '' Alambrado'' (1991) ...
José Padilha
José Bastos Padilha Neto (; born 1 August 1967) is a Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the Brazilian critical and financial successes '' Elite Squad'' and '' Elite Squad: The Enemy Within'' a ...
''In Memoriam: Eric Rohmer'' was a selection of two films screened in memory of the new wave auteur
Eric Rohmer
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, who died that year.
* '' Pauline at the Beach'' (french: Pauline à la plage) directed by
Eric Rohmer
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.
* '' The Green Ray'' (french: Le Rayon vert) directed by
Eric Rohmer
The given name Eric, Erich, Erikk, Erik, Erick, or Eirik is derived from the Old Norse name ''Eiríkr'' (or ''Eríkr'' in Old East Norse due to monophthongization).
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.
Immortals at Cinema's Century
''Immortals at Cinema's Century'' was a selection of four films screened to celebrate
Akira Kurosawa
was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed thirty films in a career spanning over five decades. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Kurosawa displayed a bold, dyna ...
’s 100th and
Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel Portolés (; 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish-Mexican filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico, and Spain. He has been widely considered by many film critics, historians, and directors to be one of the greatest and ...
’s 110th birthday.
* ''
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
''The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz'' (original Spanish title: ''Ensayo de un crimen'', "Rehearsal for a Murder") is a 1955 Mexican crime film by Spanish-born writer-director Luis Buñuel. It focuses on a would-be serial killer whose plan ...
'' ( es, Ensayo de un crimen) directed by
Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel Portolés (; 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish-Mexican filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico, and Spain. He has been widely considered by many film critics, historians, and directors to be one of the greatest and ...
Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel Portolés (; 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish-Mexican filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico, and Spain. He has been widely considered by many film critics, historians, and directors to be one of the greatest and ...
.
* ''
Yojimbo
is a 1961 Japanese Samurai cinema, samurai film co-written, produced, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film stars Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katō, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, and Ats ...
'' ( ja, 用心棒) directed by
Akira Kurosawa
was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed thirty films in a career spanning over five decades. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Kurosawa displayed a bold, dyna ...
.
* ''
Throne of Blood
is a 1957 Japanese '' jidaigeki'' film co-written, produced, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. The film transposes the plot of William Shakespeare's play ''Macbeth'' from Medieval Scotland to feudal ...
'' ( ja, 蜘蛛巣城) directed by
Akira Kurosawa
was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed thirty films in a career spanning over five decades. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Kurosawa displayed a bold, dyna ...
.
Midnight Cinema
''Midnight Cinema'' was a late night screenings of the most bizarre films of the horror and thriller genres.
* '' Mom'' ( es, Mamá) directed by Andres Muschietti.
* ''
Dead Snow
''Dead Snow'' ( no, Død snø) is a 2009 Norwegian comedy horror film directed by Tommy Wirkola, starring Charlotte Frogner, Stig Frode Henriksen, Vegar Hoel, Jeppe Laursen, Evy Kasseth Røsten, Jenny Skavlan, and Lasse Valdal. The film cente ...
'' ( no, Død snø) directed by
Tommy Wirkola
Tommy Wirkola (born 6 December 1979) is a Norwegian film director and writer.
Career
His first film was 2007's ''Kill Buljo'', which he co-wrote with Stig Frode Henriksen. They later made the 2009 horror comedy '' Dead Snow''. In 2010 they agai ...
The Heretics
''The Heretics'' is a feature-length, documentary film written and directed by Joan Braderman and distributed by Women Make Movies. It focuses on a group of New York-based feminist artists called the Heresies Collective, and their influential ar ...
'' directed by
Joan Braderman
Joan Braderman is an American video artist, director, performer, and writer. Braderman's video works are considered to have created her signature style known as "stand up theory." Via this "performative embodiment," she deconstructs and analyzes ...
Turkish films of 2010
A list of films produced by the Turkish film industry in Turkey in 2010.
Highest-grossing films
Events
;January
:30 — ''New Turkish Cinema'' by Asuman Suner published.
;February
:16 — ''Honey'' ( tr, Bal) directed by Semih Kaplanoğlu pr ...
External links
* for the festival
References
{{Reflist, 2
Ankara International Film Festival
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Ankara International Film Festival
Ankara ( , ; ), historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and over 5.7 million in Ankara Province, makin ...