The 33rd Istanbul Festival ended on Sunday, April 20th, awarding the best films of the festival on Saturday, April 19th. 

In the national competition, in which ten films were competing for the Golden Tulips, I Am Not Him by Tayfun Pirselimoglu received Best Film, Best Screenplay and Best Music for the score by Giorgos Komendakis, tying with Ali Tekbaş, Serhat Bostancı and A İmran Erin΄s work on Come to My Voice by Huseyin Karabey.

Onur Unlu received the Best Director Award for Let’s Sin, and the film΄s lead, Serkan Keskin, won Best Actor, while Best Actress went to Vahide Percin for her performance in Ayhan Hanım. Ahmet Sesigürgil received the Best Director of Photography Award for his work on Ozan Açıktan΄s Consequences, and Reha Erdem got Best Editing for his film, Singing Women. 

The Seyfi Teoman Best Debut Film Prize went to Mrs. Nergis by Gorkem Sarkan, which screened along with six other films in the New Turkish Cinema section.

Once Upon a Time by Kazım Öz received the FIPRESCI Prize in the national competition.

Films from both the international and national competitions were eligible for the Cineuropa Award, which went to Turkey΄s Huseyin Karabey for Come to My Voice. The film was supported in 2011 by the Turkish-German Co-Production Development Fund as part of the festival΄s industry section, Meetings on the Bridge.

The documentary Trans X Istanbul by Maria Binder received a Special Mention from the Film Award of the Council of Europe (FACE), while the Radikal Newspaper People΄s Choice Award  in the national competition went to Come to My Voice.