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5 Awards from Istanbul Film Festival to TRT Co-Productions

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The awards were given to their owners at the 41st “Istanbul Film Festival” this year. TRT co-production “Klondike” won the “Best Film” and “Best Cinematography” awards, while TRT co-productions “Empire of the Rabbits” and “Bars”, which competed in the festival’s industry section “Meetings on the Bridge”, won a total of 3 awards throughout the night.

Meeting with cinema lovers between 8-19 April, the winners of the “41st Istanbul Film Festival” have been announced. TRT co-production “Klondike”, which competed in the “National Competition” section, left the night with the “Best Film” and “Best Cinematography” awards, which are the biggest awards. In the industry section of the festival, “Meetings on the Bridge”, TRT co-productions “Empire of the Rabbits” and “Bars” won 3 awards in total. In addition, one of the 13 projects competing in the “Film Development” category was awarded the “TRT Special Award” this year, as every year.

TRT co-production “Klondike” won the grand prize “Golden Tulip”

The TRT co-production “Klondike” directed by Maryna Er Gorbach and produced by Mehmet Bahadır Er won the “Best Film” and “Best Cinematography” awards in the “National Competition” category of the festival. The film, which tells the story of Ira, a pregnant woman living on the Ukraine-Russia border, who does not leave her home despite the siege of her village by separatist groups, won the grand prize “Golden Tulip”. Director Maryna Er Gorbach, who could not attend the night, conveyed her message after it won the “Best Film Award” and thanked the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and TRT for supporting the film in Turkey, saying that they dedicated the film to Ukrainian women fighting for the lives of children in the war.

3 awards for TRT co-productions in “Meetings on the Bridge”

TRT co-productions got 3 awards from the festival’s industry section “Meetings on the Bridge. In the category of “Work in Progress”, where projects at the editing stage compete, the movie “Empire of the Rabbits” won 2 awards, and the movie “Bars” won 1 award. The movie “Empire of the Rabbits” directed by Seyfettin Tokmak and produced by Zeynep Koray won the “Anadolu Efes Award” and the “mute.istanbul Foley Award”. The film “Bars” directed by Orçun Köksal and produced by Sinan Kesova won the “Daire Creative Visual Design Award”.

“TRT Special Award” given to “Lo-Fi” project

One of the 13 projects competing in the “Film Development” category of “Meetings on the Bridge”, the industry section of the Istanbul Film Festival, was awarded the “TRT Special Award” this year, as every year. In the “Film Development” category of “Meetings on the Bridge” held on April 14-16 this year, the “Lo-Fi” project directed by Alican Durbaş and produced by İpek Erden won the “TRT Special Award”.

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TRT Co-Produced Films To Compete at the 41st Istanbul Film Festival

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TRT co-productions and films supported by TRT will be compete at the “41st Istanbul Film Festival”. In the “National Competition” section of the festival, TRT co-productions “Klondike”, “The Last Birds of Passage” supported by TRT and “Together, We Shall Die” films, while the industry section of the festival, “Meetings on the Bridge”, TRT co-productions “Empire of the Rabbits”, “Bars” and “Hope” films will compete.

Organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) since 1982, the “Istanbul Film Festival” will be held for the 41st time this year between 8-19 April. In the “National Competition” section of the festival, TRT co-production “Klondike”, and “Together, We Shall Die” supported by TRT will compete for the Golden Tulip. The film “Together, We Shall Die” will also be screened in the “International Competition” section of the festival. “Meetings on the Bridge”, the industry section of the festival, will feature TRT co-productions “Empire of the Rabbits”, “Bars” and “Hope”. In addition, the “TRT Special Award” will be given to the best project this year, as every year, at the “Meetings on the Bridge Film Development Workshop”.

Award-winning TRT co-production “Klondike”, about the Russia-Ukraine crisis, at the Main Competition

Directed by Maryna Er Gorbach and produced by Mehmet Bahadır Er, the TRT co-production “Klondike” focuses on an event in the past of the current Russian-Ukrainian war. The film tells the story of Ira, a pregnant woman living on the Ukraine-Russia border, who does not leave her home despite the siege of her village by separatist groups. It will compete in the “National Competition” category, which is the main competition category of the Istanbul Film Festival.

“The Last Birds of the Passage”, supported by TRT competes for Golden Tulip and Best First Feature

“The Last Birds of Passage” supported by TRT will compete for the “Golden Tulip” grand prize in the “National Competition” category of the festival and the “Seyfi Teoman Best Debut Film Award” given in memory of director Seyfi Teoman who passed away in 2012. Directed by İffet Eren Danışman Boz and produced by Eyüp Boz, “The Last Birds of the Passage” tells the life of Sarıkeçili Yörüks, who have been continuing the nomadic culture in Anatolia for a thousand years. The film, which won the TRT Pre-Purchase Award in 12 Punto, held in 2019, had its world premiere at the 34th Tokyo Film Festival.

“Together, We Shall Die”supported by TRT, will compete in “National” and “International Competition”

Directed by Hakkı Kurtuluş and Melik Saraçoğlu and produced by Yamaç Okur, Aslı Erdem and Hakkı Kurtuluş, “Together, We Shall Die” supported by TRT will compete in the National and International Competition sections of the festival. The film, which won the TRT Pre-Buy Award, tells the passionate and destructive love story of Mazhar and Ece.

Three films co-produced by TRT will compete in “Meetings on the Bridge”

3 films co-produced by TRT were selected in the Work in Progress category, in which projects in the editing phase of “Meetings on the Bridge”, the industry section of the Istanbul Film Festival, compete. TRT co-production films; “Empire of the Rabbits” directed by Seyfettin Tokmak and produced by Zeynep Koray, and “Bars” directed by Orçun Köksal and produced by Arda Çiltepe, Kadir Doğulu and Orçun Köksal and directed by Orhan İnce, “Hope” produced by Burak Kanisicak will compete in “Meetings on the Bridge”.

TRT Special Award in “Meetings on the Bridge”

One of the 13 projects competing in the Meetings on the Bridge Film Development category, the industry section of the Istanbul Film Festival, will be awarded the “TRT Special Award” this year, as every year. “Meetings on the Bridge” will be held on 14, 15 and 16 April this year.

“Best Director” Award from Sundance to TRT Co-production “Klondike”

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TRT co-production “Klondike” directed by Maryna Er Gorbach won the “Best Director” award at the Sundance Film Festival, one of the 5 most important festivals in the world.

Awards found their owners at the Sundance Film Festival, organized by the Sundance Institute since 1981. TRT co-production “Klondike” won the “Best Director” award in the “International Competition” section of the festival, which was held online in the US state of Utah between January 20-30.

Words of praise from the competition jury

“Klondike”, which made its premiere at the “International Competition”, the main competition section of the Sundance Film Festival, where only 10 films from all over the world are selected each year, received the appreciation of the competition jury. The international competition jury of the festival presented the “Best Director Award” to Maryna Er Gorbach on the grounds that “a film that enlivens the viewer with its meticulously formed frames, elegantly woven story and beautiful performances of the actors”.

European premiere will be in Berlin

The film, which was shot by Ukrainian, Turkish, Czech, Bosnian and Georgian teams, will have its European premiere in the “Panorama” section of the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival, which will take place on February 10-20 with the participation of the team. The Ukraine-Turkey co-production film, which won the TRT International Co-Production Award in 12 Punto 2020, is directed by Maryna Er Gorbach and co-produced by Mehmet Bahadır Er. Starting with Irka, a pregnant woman living on the Ukraine-Russia border, who does not leave her home despite the siege of her village by separatist groups, “Klondike” is about Irka and her family finding themselves at the center of an international plane crash disaster.

TRT Co-Production “Klondike” to Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival

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The TRT Co-production “Klondike”, directed by Maryna Er Gorbach and co-produced by Mehmet Bahadır Er, will have its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, one of the most important meeting points of American independent cinema.

TRT Co-production “Klondike” will compete at the Sundance Film Festival, which will be held this year from January 20 to 30, 2022. The Ukraine-Turkey co-produced film will take part in the “International Competition”, the main competition section of the festival, where only ten films from around the world are selected each year.

The Sundance Film Festival, founded in 1981 by the famous actor Robert Redford, is organized annually in January in the US state of Utah by the Sundance Institute. The festival will be held physically this year on January 20-30, 2022.

The film, which begins with the fact that Ira, a pregnant woman living on the Ukraine-Russia border, does not leave her home even though her village is besieged by separatist groups, Ira and her family find themselves at the center of an international plane crash disaster on July 17, 2014. “Klondike”, which was shot in Ukraine by film crews from Ukraine, Turkey, Georgia, Poland and Bosnia and Herzegovina in September-October 2020, received the “TRT Minority Co-Production Award” in 12 Punto organized in 2020.

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