Istanbul International Film Festival : Winners
Well I could not find an IMDB list that contains all movies from IF festival! There I go, biting the bullet and making a list for internet people. I've added every movie that won an award in Istanbul Film Festival from all years. Hope it helps!
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2021
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2016
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- DirectorMadiano MarchetiStarsNatália MazarimRafael de BonaPâmella YulleA broken body in a white dress, lying lifeless in a swaying soya field. The image of this motionless body lends an extra charge to everything that follows. Marcheti follows three protagonists in turn. They don't know one another, but are all in some way connected through Madalena. Luziane, a club hostess, knocks on her door for money. Wealthy Cristiano inspects the vast expanse of soya fields for his demanding father. Trans woman Bianca and her girlfriends divide Madalena's things between them while reminiscing. Marcheti shot the film in the agrarian region where he grew up, capturing with great visual flair this largely unfilmed rural part of Brazil. A place where big agricultural machinery crawls monster-like across the landscape and the farthest corners are known only to drones. A world that can also take on a spooky aspect - now and then, Marcheti inventively gives an eerie twist to even the most everyday scene. Madalena is above all a window on a world that is getting out of control. But Marcheti is also clearly making a statement about his country, which has the highest rate of murder of transgender people in the world. A plea for empathy, rather than pity.
- DirectorEmre ErdogduStarsHalil BabürHayal KöseogluSermet YesilThis film is about the gravity of the desire for being loved.
- DirectorSerhat KaraaslanStarsDeniz AltanLorin MerhartCem BazaIn a town in Turkey, a young couple looks for some privacy. They are rejected from the hotels because they do not have a marriage certificate. When they think they have found a way, the situation gets out of hand.
- DirectorThomas ImbachStarsMilan PeschelThe film explores the destruction of a unique train station in Zurich and the construction of the new prison and police centre in its place. From the perspective of the filmmaker's window, and with testimony from prisoners awaiting deportation, the film probes how we deal with the extinction of history and its replacement with total security.
- DirectorGeorge Peter BarbariStarsEtienne AssalAdnan KhabbazJean Paul FranjiehEtienne is taken by his friends to a prostitute for the first time. Three troubled teens on their way to win their acceptance into manhood. Though several unexpected occurrences take Etienne on an unforeseen journey into himself.
- DirectorCagil BocutStarsIlayda Elif ElhihAli Seçkiner AliciEvren DuyalJust before her final exams, 19 years old Defne, has to return to her hometown after her father's stroke. His rehabilitation sessions will give the pair a chance to heal their fragile relationship in this beautiful Mediterranean town.
- DirectorFikret ReyhanStarsHakan SalinmisSüreyya KilimciHakan Emre UnalWhen he was working in the UK, Fatih borrowed a lot of money from his friend, Ayhan to send to his family back in Turkey. Fatih has since returned to Turkey and the debt remains unpaid. During a trip back home, Ayhan visits Fatih and his family and politely asks for the money back.
- DirectorBaris SarhanStarsOzan ÇelikNesrin CavadzadeAlican YücesoyCemil, a wannabe actor auditions for the villain role in a film. He can't get the role but the role gets him.
- DirectorGaspar NoéStarsDario ArgentoFrançoise LebrunAlex LutzThe last days of an elderly couple stricken by dementia.
- DirectorMaryna Er GorbachStarsOksana CherkashynaSergey ShadrinOleg ShcherbinaAfter flight MH17 crashes in eastern Ukraine, violent tensions disrupt the lives of an expecting couple living in Donetsk.
- DirectorKarim AïnouzA travel diary filmed on director Karim Aïnouz's first trip to Algeria, the country where his father was born, mixing travel records, home footage, family photographs, historical archives and super-8 footage.
- DirectorZiya DemirelStarsEce YükselSerkan KeskinDenizhan AkbabaVeteran math teacher Hilmi is preparing the earthquake survivor Ela for her college applications and is mentoring Ali, the doorman's son, who flunked for the second time at school. As they seek refuge from loneliness in each other, they slowly find themselves in an uncanny triangle, where all boundaries dissolve.
- DirectorYasemin DemirciStarsNezaket ErdenBasak KaraCihat SuvariogluIt's Saturday night in Istanbul and the storm suppresses the sound of music around the city. Özge and Tarik, who have had too much to drink, decide to end the night and jump in a cab. However, the journey back home doesn't go as they expect.
- DirectorKathryn HamiltonDeniz TortumOUR ARK is an essay film on our efforts to create a virtual replica of the real world.
- DirectorAdam IsenbergNoah Amir ArjomandSenem TüzenKathryn's ALS has left her paralyzed, but she holds on to see her daughter's wedding. With dark humor and extraordinary intimacy, this film probes the breakdown of a family's bonds and of a woman's will to live.
- DirectorLaura WandelStarsMaya VanderbequeGünter DuretElsa LaforgeWhen Nora witnesses Abel being bullied by other kids, she rushes to protect him. But Abel forces her to remain silent. Caught in a conflict of loyalty, Nora tries to find her place, torn between children's and adults' worlds.
- DirectorValentyn VasyanovychStarsAndriy RymarukLiudmyla BilekaVasyl AntoniakA soldier suffering from PTSD befriends a young volunteer hoping to restore peaceful energy to a war-torn society.
- DirectorÜmit ÜnalStarsSelen UçerEce DizdarAysenil SamliogluAfter not having seen each other for 20 years, two women are reunited on the small Turkish island where, as teenagers, they first fell in love. What is the mysterious force that binds them together after all this time? And what can they do about it?
- DirectorOrcun BehramStarsIhsan ÖnalGül AriciLevent ÜnsalThe inhabitants of an apartment building are caught in a living nightmare when a radical, new communications technology goes horribly awry.
- DirectorHaci OrmanStarsFatih AlAsiye DinçsoyVedat ErincinSinan is a blind poet. His wife Nilgün convinces him to have surgery. He begins to see vaguely, but there's adaptation problems. When Nilgün pressures on him to adapt, tension rises and they start questioning each others personalities.
- DirectorMehmet Bahadir ErMaryna Er GorbachStarsCem BenderTaj Sher YakubMenderes SamancilarIsmet is a Turkish soldier, who was on duty at the border as a Commander of the Coast Guard and recently got retired. Now as a civilian, he struggles to communicate with his family and people surrounding him. His only son abandoned him and left to the U.S.
- DirectorErcan KesalStarsErcan KesalSelin YeninciInanç KonukçuErcan Kesal's debut feature, a one-day tragicomic story of doctor Kemal, who wants to become a candidate for Istanbul's Beyoglu district mayor. He is trying every way to become a candidate. Unexpected events will occur that night.
- DirectorArda ÇiltepeStarsEnes YurdaunNur SürerErcan Kesal
- DirectorDeniz TortumPhases of Matter follows living and inanimate residents of a teaching hospital in Istanbul, moving from the operating room to the morgue, between life and other states, the real and the virtual.
- DirectorMahnaz MohammadiStarsRaha KhodayariMahan NasiriReza BehbudiA widow who works tirelessly at a failing factory in sanctions-gripped Iran receives a marriage proposal that could mean financial security, but could also tear her family apart.