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Tuesday, September 7th, 2010 by admin

Turkish Cinema – Adana’s Golden Cocoon welcomes Turkish films

The 17th Golden Cocoon International Film Festival will be held from Sept. 20 to 26 in Adana. Ten Turkish films made within the last year earned the right to compete in the festival’s competition for national feature films while the event will also feature contests for student-made films as well as entries from Turkey’s Mediterranean ...

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Friday, September 3rd, 2010 by admin

Turkish Cinema – Expanded cinema fest to kick off in Turkey’s Datça

The annual film festival in Datça, which begins Friday, is making the leap to becoming an international event this year, offering an enriched program to movie-goers in the Aegean province of Muğla. For the last four years, the festival had offered its screenings under the theme “Homage to Cinema’s Masters.” This year’s International Datça Cinema ...

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Sunday, September 13th, 2009 by admin

Kuyu (1968)

Metin Erksan’s most controversial film, Kuyu/The Well (1968), considered as one of the classics of Turkish cinema, is a rural drama that focuses on a relationship, founded on male obsession and female resistance, which culminates in tragedy. Based on a newspaper article, but decorated with the fantasies of Erksan, the film displays the helplessness of ...

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