Turkish Film Days Munich

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Turkish Film Festival or Turkish Türk Film Günleri , often also SinemaTürk after the organizing association, is a German-Turkish film festival in Munich , which took place from 1989 initially under the name Days of Turkish Film .

In addition to the main organizer, SinemaTürk Filmzentrum eV , the annual film festival is co-organized today by Filmstadt München eV , the Munich City Library and the cultural department of the City of Munich .

concept

The purpose of the festival and association is “to present Turkish-language films or films from the Turkish cultural area of ​​high quality to the local public in terms of art and content, in order to advocate better understanding between German and Turkish citizens in this area too”.

The focus of the 7-day events is on films from Turkey and films by Turkish directors from Germany. With regard to the latter, the festival primarily shows young filmmakers. But German directors who take on Turkish themes are also represented from the beginning of the festival, as are productions from other countries.

Directors of the films shown are often present and ask questions about their films in panel discussions.

history

The organizing association SinemaTürk Filmzentrum was founded in the year the Film Days were first held by Munich residents of German and Turkish origin, including Thomas Balkenhol and Erman Okay . The director Seyhan Derin (now Berlin), who previously lived in Munich , was chairwoman for many years.

In the first few years of the festival there were hardly any subtitled or dubbed versions of Turkish films, as Turkish cinema at that time still produced almost exclusively for the national market. For this reason, some of the members of the association were forced to translate the dialogues of the films selected for screening themselves and to speak their own dubbed versions until the end of the 1990s.

As part of the promotion of young filmmakers from Germany, the festival u. a. internationally successful filmmakers such as Fatih Akın or Yılmaz Arslan present their first films.

Outstanding productions from third countries were also shown, for example in 1991 the Swiss film Journey of Hope, which received an Oscar in the same year .

Supporting program

The supporting program of the Film Days always included cultural events not related to the film, for example a gala concert in 2007 with melodies from Turkish films from the 1960s and 1970s. Readings and lectures (in 1993, for example, Orhan Pamuk, who later won the Nobel Prize for Literature, read on the subject of “Cinema and Literature”), as well as panel discussions.

Guests

Numerous German and Turkish guests from the film industry and other cultural areas have helped to shape the festival in this context. They include Orhan Oğuz , Fehmi Yaşar , Reha Erdem , Nesli Çölgeçen , Andreas Dresen , Rüdiger Nüchtern , Georg Seeßlen , Sema Poyraz , Orhan Pamuk, Yusuf Kurçenli , Engin Ayça , Atilla Dorsay , Mahinur Ergün , Zuhal Olcay , Halil Ergün , Konstantin Schmidt , Yola Grimm , Ayse Polat , Sinan Çetin , Serap Berrakkarasu , Hale Sözmen , Mustafa Altioklar , Fatih Akın, Ahmet Uluçay , Mehmet Kurtuluş , Hülya Öztürk , rice Çelik , Mustafa Bülbül , Necmi Aydin , Sabri Özaydin , Serdar Akar , Alin Taşciyan , Gani Müjde , Habib Bektas , Meltem Cumbul , Kazım Öz , Handan İpekçi , Buket Alakus , Neco Celik , Seyhan Derin , only Sürer , Uğur Polat , Zarife Öztürk , Mustafa Bülbül, Barış Özbiçer , Bilhan Derin , Timuçin Esen , Hamdi Döker , Selahattin Yıldız , Adnan Köse , Tarık Akan , Eren Önsöz , Serpil Çakır , Fikret Kuşkan , Sadi Çilingir , Önder M. Özdem and Marcus Attila Vetter .

Festival films (selection)

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Homepage "SinemaTürk Munich" ( Memento from November 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), viewed on January 1, 2008
  2. ^ Archive, homepage "SinemaTürk Munich" ( Memento from November 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), viewed on January 1, 2008