Documentarist-Istanbul Documentary Days celebrated its fifth year with yet again a superb selection of films as well as stimulating side events. As organizer Necati Sönmez put it, this festival created its own audience, and since its launch as the biggest festival dedicated to documentary film in Istanbul, there has been a visible increase of interest in the genre, both in terms of film-making and the audience.
The fifth year of the festival, which was held on 1-6 June 2012, marked a change in the presentation of the New Talent Award as well. This award, which has been granted at the festival since 2010 in collaboration with the Consulate General of the Netherlands in Istanbul to Turkish directors for their first or second films, will henceforth bear the name of Dutch documentary director Johan van der Keuken. The film which took the award this year was “Waiting” by Bülent Öztürk, a poetic insight...
The fifth year of the festival, which was held on 1-6 June 2012, marked a change in the presentation of the New Talent Award as well. This award, which has been granted at the festival since 2010 in collaboration with the Consulate General of the Netherlands in Istanbul to Turkish directors for their first or second films, will henceforth bear the name of Dutch documentary director Johan van der Keuken. The film which took the award this year was “Waiting” by Bülent Öztürk, a poetic insight...
- 8/18/2012
- by N. Buket Cengiz
- The Moving Arts Journal
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