Turkish Competition saw
Ivy winning two other prizes, the
Best Screenplay Award for Tolga Karacelik and the
Best Actor Award for
Nadir Sarıbacak, while, actress Nuray Yeşilaraz got away with the
Best Actress Award for Mustafa Kara΄s
Cold Of Kalandar (Turkey/Hungary, 2015), a film that also got the
Avni Tolunay Special Jury Award.
Tolga Karacelik, winner of Best Film at Turkish Competition
The Best First Film Award went to The Apprentice by Emre Konuk (Turkey, 2015), which also won the Best Supporting Actress Award (Çiğdem Selışık Onat). The Best Director Award went to Selim Evci for Hidden (Turkey, 2015), while the Best Supporting Actor Award went to Kaan Çakır for his performance in the film Muna by Serdar Gözelekli (Turkey, 2015).
Emre Şahin΄s The Team: For the Love of the Neighborhood (Turkey, 2015) won three awards in total in the same section. The film, that hit Turkish theaters last October, got the Best Art Direction Award, Best Editing and the Behlül Dal Special Jury Prize for actor Yağız Can Konyalı.
Greek cinematographer Andreas Sinanos was awarded the Best Director of Photography prize for his work in Özcan Alper΄s Memories Of The Wind (Turkey/France/Germany/Georgia, 2015). Zerk by İnan Erbil (Turkey, 2015, 15΄) was chosen for the Documentary Audience Award, while the Short Film Audience Award went to Zilan by Mehmet Mahsum Akyel (Turkey, 2015, 6΄).
Hany Abu-Assad, winner of Best Film at International Competition
Antalya Film Forum, the festival΄s industry section, awarded 3 prizes. The
Pitching Platform Award went to Evrim Sanal and Nehir Tuna for their project
Dormitory, with the
Work in Progress Award going to
Kindness by Özgür Sevimli and the
Documentary Pitching Platform Award to
The Memories of Antonia Köpe by Elsa Ginoux &
Nefin Dinç.
In the
International Competition section, the
Golden Orange was given to Hany Abu-Assad for
The Idol (Palestine, 2015). Antalya΄s
Best Actor Award was bestowed to Haydar Sisman for his role in
Cold of Kalandar by Mustafa Kara (Turkey/Hungary, 2015), with
Alba Rohrwacher΄s performance on
The Sworn Virgin by
Laura Bispuri (Italy/Germany/Switzerland/Albania/Kosovo*, 2015) was awarded the
Best Actress prize.
Girls Lost by Swedish director Alexandra-Therese Keining won the
Best Screenplay Award, while
Goran Radovanovic΄s
Enclave (Serbia, 2014) got away with the
Best Film Score prize. Turkish drama
Memories of the Wind Özcan Alper (Turkey/France/Germany/Georgia, 2015) took the festival΄s
Audience Prize.
