Turkey’s longest running film event, the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, is this year preparing to celebrate its 56 th edition. Set to take place from 26 October-1 November, the Festival will be based around the theme, ‘Return to Roots’. As in previous years, the Festival will bring together young and established names from Turkish cinema in Antalya and so maintain its well- deserved reputation as the beating heart of the national film industry. As well as reinstating the feature film, short film and documentary categories of the National Competitions, which were discarded two years ago, the Festival promises a line-up of critically acclaimed productions from festivals around the world for the International Feature Film Competition. Meanwhile, the Antalya Film Forum, a side-bar event eagerly anticipated by young, independent Turkish filmmakers, will continue to serve as the country’s largest support platform for helping to bring new projects to fruition. The Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival will this year provide a total of TL 1,357,500 worth of support to the Turkish film industry.
The Festival will be organized by ANSET and hosted by the Antalya Metropolitan Municipality.
World cinema to compete in Antalya
The 56th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival’s International Feature Film Competition will, as in previous editions, gather together the most talked about productions of the year. The competition will offer close to TL 100,000 worth of prize money in the Best Film and Best Director categories, while Golden Orange statues will be presented to winners of the Best Male Actor and Best Female Actor awards.
TL 450,000 of support to new projects
The much-anticipated Antalya Film Forum, which provides a key opportunity for young, independent Turkish directors, producers and screenwriters to meet international film professionals, will continue to serve as Turkey’s most important funding and networking platform in the realization of new projects. Projects selected for the event will compete in the Fiction Pitching, Fiction Work in Progress and Documentary Work in Progress categories, but also for the Sümer Tilmaç Antalya Film Support Fund, which seeks to promote the city of Antalya as a filmmaking location. In its five editions to date, the Antalya Film Forum has been an important facilitator in the making of Turkish films that have gone on to win awards at national and international festivals.
Türkan Şoray on the Festival poster
For its poster this year, the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival has used an iconic image of Türkan Şoray, Turkish cinema’s best-known and perhaps best-loved female actor. Şoray was also named Best Female Actor at the Festival’s inaugural edition in 1964 for her performance in Metin Erksan’s Acı Hayat (Bitter Life).
