Turkey's most prestigious, biggest and longest running -50 years- cultural event, International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival celebrates its semi-centennial anniversary between the 4th and 11th of October 2013. The Jury In previous years, International Competition Jury was chaired by renowned names such as; István Szabó, Marleen Gorris, Paul Verhoeven, Jafar Panahi, Krzysztof Zanussi and Bahman Ghobadi.  This year, internationally recognised Turkish director Ye...

The 50th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival  has announced ten awe-inspiring films for its International Feature Film Competition.   The festival will be held from 4th to 11th October 2013 and will be celebrating its 50th edition bigger than ever before. The festival is organized by the Antalya Culture and Art Foundation (AKSAV) and Antalya Metropolitan Municipality. The event is held annually since 1963 and it is the most prestigious international film festival in Turkey. Inter...

The world – renowned Hungarian director Török Ferenc’s latest feature film ‘ISTANBUL ’ had  its World Premiere at the 48th International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival. (8th-14th October 2011). Director, screenwriter Török Ferenc is a prominent figure in the young generation of Hungarian filmmakers. His first feature fim ‘MOSCOW SQUARE’ (2001) was one of the most important cult films in Hungary after the change of the regime, and it was screened at numbers of intern...

  The famous Serbian director, actor, producer and writer Lazar Ristovski is at the 48th International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival for the special screening of his latest film, ‘WHITE LIONS’. Ristovski who has become world-renowned actor,  after appearing the award-winning Emir Kusturica film, “Underground”, will  get together with the audience for the Q&A session after the screening of his film.  Ristovski will also hold a worksho...

48th International Golden Orange Film Festival has started with a magnificent ceremony last night at the Glass Pyramid in Antalya Turkey. Important names from the cinema, art and media world attended to the Red Carpet Ceremony. At the opening cocktail reception prior to the Opening Gala, a ‘Freedom Corner’ was opened for imprisoned or banned Iranian directors Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb. The petition letters for their freedom will be posted to the Iranian embassy during the f...

Coppola, Emir Kusturica to attend Antalya Film Festival  The 44th edition of the Antalya Film Festival will host Francis Ford Coppola and Emir Kusturica as its “Honour Guest"s” within the 3rd International Eurasia Film Festival, the international section of the festival. Francis Ford Coppola will pay his first visit to a film festival held in Turkey, attending the Turkey premiere of his feature “Youth Without Youth” adapted from Mircea Eliade’s novel. Coppola’s return to...

The 3rd International Eurasia Film Festival, curtain-raiser for Turkey's 44th Antalya Film Festival, is all set to open on October 19 and will feature a showcase of much-acclaimed recent films of international origin. Displaying the latest productions and hosting their performers and directors at Antalya, the Eurasia Film Festival covers a line up of highly praised films produced  during the last two years. Awards of US$75,000 and US$25,000 will be granted to the “Best Film” and the ...

Antalya’s Eurasia Film Market gets thumbs up ANTALYA, Turkey ~ The first film market ever held in Turkey ended yesterday in Antalya and was hailed as a success both by buyers and sellers, several of whom were clearly taken aback by the sheer professionalism of the organisers. A combined total of some 200 buyers and sellers from approximately 30 countries attended the inaugural Eurasia Film Festival which took place over four days during the week-long 43rd Golden Orange Eurasia Film Festival...