The Taylan Brothers will serve as the jury presidents of the 36th Istanbul Film Festival

 The Taylan Brothers will serve as the jury presidents of the 36th Istanbul Film Festival’s National Golden Tulip Competition jury

Organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) between 5-16 April 2017, the 36th Istanbul Film Festival announces the jury members for its National Golden Tulip Competition. Türk Tuborg A.Ş is the Turkish Cinema Theme Sponsor of the festival, which includes the National Golden Tulip Competition, National Documentary Competition and National Short Film Competition.

Durul Taylan and Yağmur Taylan, the jury presidents of the National Golden Tulip Competition, are film and TV directors from Turkey known for their films and TV works over a wide range of genres such as psychological thriller, dark comedy and period drama. Their first feature film Okul / The School, a horror-teen comedy was followed by the psychological horror film Küçük Kıyamet / The Little Apocalypse, which won several awards. Their third feature film Vavien was a critical hit, winning the Best Picture and FIPRESCI Award at Istanbul Film Festival in 2010. The Taylan Brothers also worked behind the camera on internationally known TV projects such as Yabancı Damat / The Foreign Groom which lasted 106 episodes, Muhteşem Yüzyıl / Magnificent Century which reached international fame, and their current period drama Vatanım Sensin / You Are My Homeland. They currently reside in Los Angeles and are developing projects for Turkey-Middle East territories as well as for the United States.

The other members of the National Golden Tulip Competition Jury chaired by The Taylan Brothers are actor Nejat İşler, novelist, story writer and playwright Sema Kaygusuz, cinematographer Emre Erkmen, and film editorÇiçek Kahraman.

National Golden Tulip Competition Awards

The National Golden Tulip Competition Jury chaired by The Taylan Brothers will award prizes in 9 categories: Golden Tulip Best Film, Golden Tulip Best Director, Special Jury Award, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Screenplay, Best Director of Photography, Best Editing, and Best Music. Best Film selected by the National Competition Jury will be awarded with 150,000 TL, the producer of the film winning the Special Jury Prizein memory of Onat Kutlar will be awarded 50,000 TL. The prizes for Best Actress and Best Actor will be 10.000 TL each. Best Director will be awarded 50.000 TL given by Türk Tuborg A.Ş.

The Festival also presents the renovated version of the Turkish film classic
Anayurt Oteli / Motherland Hotel in collaboration with Groupama

The Istanbul Film Festival has been running the project Turkish Classics Revisited for ten years now with the collaboration of Groupama, renovating the significant works of the Turkish cinema and reintroducing them to modern viewers. This year sees the renovation of Anayurt Oteli / Motherland Hotel (1987), a film adaptation of Yusuf Atılgan’s novel of the same name by the director Ömer Kavur. The film, renovated by Fanatik Film, will meet the audience 30 years after its production. Anayurt Oteli /Motherland Hotel, regarded as Ömer Kavur’s masterpiece and accepted as one of the strongest literature adaptations in Turkish cinema, stars Macit Koper, Serra Yılmaz, Orhan Çağman andŞahika Tekand. The leading role Zebercet, one of the most unforgettable and iconic anti-heros of the Turkish cinema, is played by Macit Koper, who is also the receiver of the Cinema Honorary Award of the Istanbul Film Festival.

About the Istanbul Film Festival

Established in 1982, the Istanbul Film Festival has proudly grown from a six-film section incorporated in the all-encompassing Istanbul Festival to a stand-alone, FIAPF-accredited international event. The Festival each year features around 200 films in thematic or curated sections, and five competitions–International Golden Tulip Competition, FACE Human Rights in Cinema Competition, National Golden Tulip Competition, National Short Film Competition, National Documentary Competition. With 90,000 admissions (2016), it is considered the largest film festival in Turkey.

Meetings on the Bridge, the industry section of the festival has proven to be the ideal platform for film professionals from Turkey and abroad. While giving filmmakers the chance to hold the first international presentation of their new film projects and films that are in post-production stage, it also aims to pave way for co-productions.

The complete programme of the 36th Istanbul Film Festival will be announced on March 2017.