International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival Is Getting Ready To Greet Cinema Lovers With Its Full-Scheduled Program
The INTERNATIONAL ANTALYA GOLDEN ORANGE FILM FESTIVAL, which will take place between October 5-12 this year, is preparing to say hello with a full program that will make cinephiles happy. The festival, which will be the scene of enthusiastic excitement, greets movie lovers with a program that encompasses all the colors of cinema.
Films that have consolidated their success and created a stir by taking part in the world's prestigious festivals are at the Golden Orange!
Director Jannis Alexander Kiefer’s “Another German Tank Story”, which is a tragicomic look at German history through the story of a small community, enriched by using a meaningful and effective visual language; British director Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths”, which reunites with Oscar nominee Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Secrets & Lies) to offer a bold and in-depth look at modern family life, which had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival; Paolo Sorrentino’s “Parthenope”, which tells the saga of a woman filled with an insatiable passion for freedom, Naples and all the faces of love, which had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival; Vahid Vakilifar’s “Rhinoceros Conquered The Middle East”, which tells the health problems of Elias, an actor who once achieved short-lived success in the theater but whose bright days are behind him; Koen Mortier’s “Rhinoceros Conquered The Middle East”, which tells the story of Geert Adapted from Taghon’s novel, “Skunk”, which tells the traumatic story of Liam being taken from his violent family home; Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance”, which turns the Hollywood star icon upside down and won the “Best Screenplay Award” at the 77th Cannes Film Festival; and Greg Kwedar’s “Sing Sing” which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and tells the power of art from an unexpected angle, with an aesthetic and realistic language, will be in the festival’s out-of-competition selection.
Among the films that will greet the audience with a special screening this year are; French director Emmanuelle Nicot’s award-winning first feature “Dalva / Dalva”, which examines the need of a child growing up under the influence of his father to learn to love again; Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis / Megalopolis”, which tells the story of the conflict between a talented architect working to rebuild the city of New Rome and the mayor who opposes his ideas and had its world premiere in the main competition section of the 77th Cannes Film Festival; and Ayşe Polat’s latest film “Im Toten Winkel / Blind Spot”, which focuses on a complex web of conspiracy, paranoia and intergenerational trauma and had its world premiere in the Panorama section of the Berlinale.
From Borders to Limitlessness: Beyond the Horizon
The International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival once again demonstrates the power of cinema and its capacity to shed light on social issues with this section. The festival aims to offer viewers a universal human experience by approaching common problems from an impartial perspective with productions from different geographies, and will seek the answer to "Where do the boundaries of cinema end?" with films that tell the story of man's world surrounded by borders, defeated by his fate, and his efforts to go beyond these borders.
Giovanni C. Lorusso’s “Song of All Ends”, Abbas Amini’s “Endless Borders”, Dmytro Moiseiev’s “Grey Bees”, Ali Kerem Gülermen’s “Yakamoz”, Omar Elemawi’s “Is Anyone Alive? / Sesimi Duyan Var Mi?”, Agnieszka Holland’s “Green Border”, Hany Abu-Assad’s “Omar”, invite cinema lovers to see the world through the eyes of another person in every frame of the festival.
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