Organized by the Bosphorus Culture and Arts Foundation, the 10th  Bosphorus Film Festival will meet audiences on 21-28 October. Bringing together cinemagoers with distinguished examples of Turkish and world cinema, masterclasses and discussion sessions, the 10th Bosphorus Film Festival finalist selection jury members for the national competition have been announced.

National Competition Jury President Is Semih Kaplanoğlu

Jury President for this year’s festival is the highly acclaimed Turkish director Semih Kaplanoğlu. He won Best Director Award at the Singapore International Film Festival with his first feature film Away From Home; Kaplanoğlu worked on the Yusuf trilogy between 2005 and 2010 and won the Golden Bear Award at the 60th Berlin Film Festival with the last film of the trilogy, Honey.

His 2017 film Grain won Best Film Award at the 30th Tokyo Film Festival, followed by Best Director Award at the 7th Bosphorus Film Festival for his 2019 film Commitment Aslı, the first film of the Commitment trilogy. The trilogy's second film Commitment Hasan had its world premiere at the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival and won Best Film, Best Cinematography and Best Script Awards at the 9th Bosphorus Film Festival.

The National Competition jury members are; Christian Jeune who is the Deputy to the General Delegate and Director of the Film Department at Cannes Film Festival; member of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science, European Film Academy, and the Asia Pacific Screen Academy Zeynep Atakan who was awarded the European Film Academy’s Best European Co-Producer Award in 2010 and won the prestigious Palme d’Or Award at the 67th Cannes Film Festival with Winter Sleep which she produced, director Biket İlhan who made the films The Man in the Street, The Blue-Eyed Giant, The Miracle and Çelo and writer and anthropologist Irmak Zileli who won the 2012 Yunus Nadi Novel Award for her novel Eşik and the 2020 Duygu Asena Novel Award for her novel Son Bakış.

Selection Jury Members for the FİYAB Best Producer Award

Alongside the category awards, the Film Producers’ Professional Association (FIYAB) will be giving a money prize for FIYAB Best Producer Award at the 10th Bosphorus Film Festival national competition. 

This year’s FIYAB jury consists of; producer Osman Subaşı who is a board member of the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF) since 2015; producer Ramazan Arman who is a founding member and board member of the Film Producers' Professional Association (FİYAB) and director and producer Sevinç Gül Akdere who works as an independent filmmaker.

SIYAD Award Will be Given In Memory Of Agah Özgüç!

For the first time this year, the Turkish Film Critics Association will be giving the SIYAD Award in the national competition in memory of film critic Agah Özgüç who passed away in April this year. The jury consists of film critics Ali Can Sekmeç and Ali Ulvi Uyanık and director Engin Ayça who won the 2022 SIYAD Honorary Award.

Selection Jury Members for the FİLM–YÖN Best Director Award

Jury members for this year’s FİLM–YÖN Best Director Award given by the Film Directors Association in the national competition are; director Raşit Çelikezer who had the world premiere of his film Can at the Sundance Film Festival winning the Jury Special Prize; secretary general of the Turkish Cinema Foundation Aydın Sayman who won awards at numerous international film festivals with Children of Secret and Janjan and Kubilay Erkan Yazıcı who directed the film Faraway Land.

With the contribution of the Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism Cinema General Directorate, official partnership of TRT and support of Global Communications Partner Anadolu Agency, all inquiries and latest updates on the 10th  Bosphorus Film Festival could be reached on the official website www.bogazicifilmfestivali.com or on social media accounts.

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