“Brother’s Keeper” (Okul Tirasi) won Best Film, Best Screenplay and Best Editing at the 58th Antalya Golden Orange Festival, which ran from October 2nd to 9th. Director Ferit Karahan’s second feature was shot in the Bahçesaray district of Van, eastern Turkey, early in 2019.
“Young Yusuf and his best friend Memo are pupils at a strict and repressive boarding school for Kurdish boys, isolated in the mountains of eastern Anatolia. When Memo mysteriously falls ill, Yusuf is forced to overcome the school’s authoritarian bureaucracy in an attempt to help his friend.”
This Turkish-Romanian production has already won the Best Film award at the Chicago International Film Festival. It has been nominated in the Children’s Feature category of November’s Asia Pacific Screen Awards in Australia and selected for the European Film Academy’s Awards in Berlin.
Antalya Golden Orange Festival
Created in 1964, the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival has become “a crucial launch pad for many of the country’s film-makers”, playing a key role in the production and creative journey of many Turkish films. Several directors who have passed through the festival have later won awards at national and international festivals. Antalya has become a hub of the Turkish film industry.
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Sources : cineuropa.org, antalyaff.com, mubi.com, dailysabah.com
