16th London Turkish Film Festival

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The 16th London Turkish Film Festival is a film festival held in London, England which ran from November 4 to 18, 2010. During the course of the festival seventeen feature films and two programmes of shorts were presented at the Apollo Theatre and the Rio Cinema.[1][2][3]

LocationLondon, England
AwardsGolden Wings
Festival dateNovember 4–18, 2010
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16th London Turkish Film Festival
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LocationLondon, England
AwardsGolden Wings
Festival dateNovember 4–18, 2010
Websitehttp://www.ltff.org.uk/index.php
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The festival began with an opening gala at the Empire, Leicester Square, attended by Turkish Ambassador to London Ünal Çeviköz, Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism official Abdurrahman Çelik, actor Şener Şen, film and theater star Genco Erkal and director Çağan Irmak, at which the Golden Wings awards for Lifetime Achievement and Digiturk Digital Distribution were presented and Sleeping Princess (Turkish: Prensesin Uykusu) directed by Çağan Irmak received its world premiere.[4][5]

Awards

Programmes

Opening Film

Golden Wings Digiturk Digital Distribution Competition

Five Turkish films made in the preceding year were selected to compete in the festival’s feature film competition.

Competition Jury

  • Catharine des Forges (Independent Cinema Office director)
  • Derek Malcolm (film writer and critic)
  • Sevin Okyay (Turkish film critic, writer and translator)
  • Louis Savy (Sci-Fi-London festival programmer and director)

Films in Competition

Out of Competition Showings

"Yusuf Trilogy" by Semih Kaplanoğlu

See also

References

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