Golden Orange with its traditions...

A legacy of Avni Tolunay and Behlül Dal to Turkey, Golden Orange greets the people of Antalya and cinema lovers for the 61st time. Golden Orange will once again become a meeting point for our filmmakers and filmlovers, and will take its place in our lives with its new edition as a platform where freely created works are expressed...

This festival, which has left great gifts to Turkey’s cinema culture with its lifespan of more than half a century, manages to continue its blessed mission despite everything. The feeling of being home to hopeful filmmakers, new dreams, distinctive performances and horizon- expanding films at the end of a festival adventure keeps our energy constantly high.

We set out with great responsibility and dedication, with awareness, and planned the 2024 festival for our cinema culture with industry professionals. We worked hard to have a strong festival design with our team of hundreds of people in a very short preparation period. We were a good team, we did not give up, we worked day and night to produce a solution and a good festival in peace with the baggage of the past year...

We created the selections by discussing the high applications in thenational competition categories with sensitive pre-evaluations. 98 filmsare reflected on the screen in an expanded range from special screeningsto galas, competition sections to student films. The tickets offered for salethrough ‘online’ channels for the Golden Orange, where the financialprize of 5 million TL will also be given to its winners, sold out in fifteenminutes. The famous faces of our cinema accepted to take part in the juryteams of the competition sections with great favor for the festival, whosepreparations we were able to start late due to the election calendar.

We are also appearing before you with a strong program to reciprocate all these efforts and unconditional support. Despite everything, we aim to write a story together and reflect this story we wrote on the screen. We wish you many festivals that we will complete together and wish you a pleasant viewing...

Deniz Yavuz
International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival Artistic Director