THE GOLDEN TULIPS AND FESTIVAL AWARDS
PRESENTED

Organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts and sponsored by Akbank, the 31st
Istanbul Film Festival’s Golden Tulip Awards were presented at the closure gala and awards
ceremony, which took place at Lütfi Kırdar Convention and Exhibition Centre, on Saturday, 14
April.

The closure gala and the awards ceremony were presented by Memet Ali Alabora, and were
streamed live on CNN TURK.

Golden Tulip International Competition Awards

The jury of the 31st Istanbul Film Festival Golden Tulip International Competition is headed by
director Nuri Bilge Ceylan. The other members of the jury are the actor Alexander Fehling, director
Brillante Mendoza, director Corneliu Porumboiu, and journalist Elçin Yahşi.

The Golden Tulip International Competition Award, which has been presented in memory of
Şakir Eczacıbaşı for two years at the Istanbul Film Festival. The Golden Tulip International
Competition Award is also supported with a 25,000 Euro monetary award given by the Eczacıbaşı
Group. 10,000 Euro is given to the director who wins the Golden Tulip Award, the Turkish company to
distribute the film receives 10,000 Euros, and the remaining 5,000 Euros is presented to the film that
receives the Special Jury Prize.

This year, “The Golden Tulip International Competition Award” presented in memory of Şakir
Eczacıbaşı was given to Julia Loktev’s The Loneliest Planet. The award was presented to Julia
Loktev by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, the Jury President of the Golden Tulip International Competition. The
monetary award, given by the Eczacıbaşı Group was presented by İlkay Yıldırım Akalın, Eczacıbaşı
Holding Corporate Communications and Sustainable Development Director.

In the International Competition, the “Special Jury Prize” was given to Joachim Trier’s Oslo,
August 31st. The award was handed to Ingrid Olava, actress of the film, by Nuri Bilge Ceylan.

Golden Tulip National Competition Awards

This year, the director, scriptwriter, poet and writer Murathan Mungan is the Jury President of the
Golden Tulip National Competition. The other members of the jury are, director Yüksel Aksu,
the representative of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival Dimitris Kerkinos, actress Nazan
Kesal, who won the Best Actress Award last year in the National Competition of the festival, and
Alexandre Mallet-Guy, film distributer and producer. This year 12 films, three of them Turkey
premiere and five of them world premiere, competed in the Golden Tulip National Competition.

“The Golden Tulip Best National Film Award” is given to Emin Alper’s film, Beyond the Hill /
Tepenin Ardı. The award was presented to Emin Alper and the producers Seyfi Teoman and Enis
Köstepen by the Golden Tulip National Competition Jury President, Murathan Mungan.

“The Golden Tulip Best Director Award” was given to the director of Inside / Yeraltı, Zeki
Demirkubuz. The award was handed to Zeki Demirkubuz by Tayfun Pirselimoğlu, the last year’s
winner of the Golden Tulip Best National Film.

In the National Competition, 150.000 TL monetary award is given to the winner of the Best National
Film Award; the 50.000 TL monetary award is given to the winner of the Best Director Award.

M. Tayfur Aydın’s film İz–Rêç / Trace received the “Special Jury Prize” of the National

Competition, which is given in memory of Onat Kutlar. The director was handed his award by
the Golden Tulip National Competition Jury Member, director Yüksel Aksu. The Special Jury Prize
is supported with monetary award by Efes, the theme sponsor of the National Competition of the
festival from this year on. 30.000 USD monetary award was presented by Özlem Çitçi, Efes Turkey
Marketing Manager, to M. Tayfur Aydın for his next film.

“The Best Actress” award was given to Sanem Öge with her performance at Present Tense /
Şimdiki Zaman. Her award was presented by Alexander Fehling, the jury member of the Golden
Tulip International Competition.

This year “The Best Actor Award” was received by Engin Günaydın with his performance in Inside
/ Yeraltı. The actor received his award from the Golden Tulip National Competition Jury Member and
last year’s winner of the Best Actress Award, Nazan Kesal.

10,000 TL each monetary award is given to the award-winning actor and actresses.

In this year’s National Competition, Emin Alper with his film Beyond the Hill / Tepenin Ardı and
Orhan Eskiköy with his film The Voice of My Father / Babamın Sesi shared “The Best Screenplay
of The Year Award.” Emin Alper and Orhan Eskiköy received their awards from the Golden Tulip
National Competition Jury Member, Alexandre Mallet-Guy, from Memento Films.

“The Best Director of Photography Award’’ of the Istanbul Film Festival’s National Competition
was given to Türksoy Gölebeyi with Inside / Yeraltı and presented by Uğur İçbak, director of
photography.

In the Golden Tulip National Competition “The Best Music Award” was given to Mustafa Biber with
the film Trace / İz-Reç by clarinet virtuoso Barbaros Erköse whose documentary Can’t Live Without
You / Sensiz Yaşanmaz was screened in festival.

Zeki Demirkubuz with his film Inside / Yeraltı won the “The Best Editing Award” of the Golden
Tulip National Competition given for the first time, this year. Zeki Demirkubuz received his award
from the Golden Tulip National Competition Jury Member, Dimitris Kerkinos, representative of the
Thessaloniki International Film Festival

FIPRESCI National and International Competition Awards

The International Federation of Film Critics FIPRESCI Awards were given to Andrea Arnold’s film
Wuthering Heights / Uğultulu Tepeler in the International Competition and to Emin Alper with his
film Beyond the Hill / Tepenin Ardı in the National Competition. The awards were handed to Emin
Alper and Nejdet Arkın from Horizon Film, the distributor of the film in Turkey on behalf of Andrea
Arnold, by FIPRESCI Jury President Pamela Bienzóbas.

The FIPRESCI Jury of the 31st Istanbul Film Festival presided over by Pamela Bienzóbas and
composed of Kerem Akça, Noura Borsali, Nicole Santé, Erman Ata Uncu and Dieter Wieczorek.

Film Award of the Council of Europe (FACE)

The Human Rights Jury of the 31st Istanbul Film Festival composed of director Juanita Wilson,
winner of last year’s FACE Award with As If I Am Not There; Director General of Human Rights and
Rule of Law of the Council of Europe, Philippe Boillat, founder and chair of the board of Anadolu
Kültür, Osman Kavala, and Eurimages project manager Alessia Sonaglioni.

The Film Award of the Council of Europe FACE, given in cooperation with the Council of
Europe and Eurimages and the 10,000 Euro monetary award presented in scope of “Human
Rights in Cinema” competition, was deemed to be deserved by the film Just the Wind / Sadece
Rüzgâr by Hungarian director Bence Fliegauf.

The award was presented by Juanita Wilson and was handed to Bence Fliegauf by Ambassador
Rauf Engin Soysal, Permanent Representative of Turkey to the Council of Europe.

In the scope of “Human Rights in Cinema” competition, the Special Jury Prize was shared by Anca
Damian’s Crulic–The Path to Beyond and Emanuele Crialese’s Terraferma. Rauf Engin Soysal
presented his award to Emanuele Crialese and Anca Damian’s award will be sent later as she could
not attend the ceremony.

Radikal Newspaper People’s Choice Award

The People’s Choice Award, given by the Radikal Newspaper, is presented both in the scope of the
National and the International Competitions, and determined by the votes of the audience.

The Radikal Newspaper Supplements Director Cem Erciyes and İlksen Başarır, director of Merry
Go Round / Atlıkarınca, winner of last year’s award, announced the winners of the People’s Choice
Award. In the International Competition Rodrigo García’s Albert Nobbs, and in the National
Competition Zeki Demirkubuz’s film Inside / Yeraltı won the awards. A drawing between the voters of
Radikal People’s Chocie Award will determine two lucky festival followers who will travel to the Rome
Film Festival as guests of Radikal Newspaper.

After the 31th Istanbul Film Festival Awards Ceremony, the guests watched Paolo and Vittorio
Taviani’s film Caesar Must Die.

The 31th Istanbul Film Festival events continued with an after party at Salon İKSV hosted by Efes
Turkey. The festival’s national and international guests, the actors and directors of the films that
competed for the Golden Tulip Competitions, industry professionals as well as the distinguished
figures of film circles attended the party.

The winner of the Golden Tulip Award in the National Competition Beyond the Hill / Tepenin Ardı will
be screened once more on Sunday 15 April at 16.00 pm at Beyoğlu Cinema, and The Loneliest
Planet which won the Golden Tulip Award in the International Competition will be screened at 21.30 in
the same hall. The 31th Istanbul Film Festival will end on Sunday evening after the 21.30 screenings
at seven festival cinemas.

For more information: film.iksv.org/en

For the hi-resolution photos from the 31th Istanbul Film Festival Closing Gala and Awards
Ceremony: www.iksvpress.com/film2012

AWARDS OF THE 31st ISTANBUL FILM FESTIVAL
31 March- 15 April 2012

The Awards Ceremony and the Closing Gala of the 31st edition of the Istanbul Film Festival were held
on Saturday, April 14, at Lütfi Kırdar Convention and Exhibition Centre. The awards are as follows:

INTERNATIONAL GOLDEN TULIP COMPETITION

The International Jury of the 31st Istanbul Film Festival presided over by writer-director Nuri Bilge
Ceylan, and composed of actor Alexander Fehling, director Brillante Mendoza, director Corneliu
Porumboiu, and journalist Elçin Yahşi decided to give:

The Golden Tulip in memory of Şakir Eczacıbaşı to THE LONELIEST PLANET directed by Julia
Loktev (USA-Germany):
Special Jury Prize to OSLO, AUGUST 31ST by Joachim Trier.

The Eczacıbaşı Group will distribute a total monetary award of 25,000 € as follows:

– The director of the film which wins the Şakir Eczacıbaşı Golden Tulip Award will receive 10,000 €;
– The Turkish distributor of the winning film will receive 10,000 €;
– The director of the film which won the Special Jury Award will receive 5,000 €.

NATIONAL GOLDEN TULIP COMPETITION

The National Jury of the 31st Istanbul Film Festival presided over by poet-writer, scriptwriter and
playwright Murathan Mungan, and composed of Thessaloniki Film Festival representative Dimitris
Kerkinos, actress Nazen Kesal, and producer-distributor Alexandre Mallet-Guy, decided to give:

The Golden Tulip Best Film Award to TEPENİN ARDI / BEYOND THE HILL directed by Emin Alper
for “its innovative approach in terms of cinematic language, its screenplay which plays games on
the viewer, its successful construction of an allegorical world on the processes of ‘othering’ –a most
crucial social issue of today– and creating an enemy;”

The Best Director Award to ZEKİ DEMİRKUBUZ for his film Yeraltı / Inside “for presenting us with a
universal competence and mastery, a brilliant example of ‘creative director’ cinema; for its success in
rendering a literary classic into his own cinema and a story from Turkey.”

A monetary prize of 150,000 TL will be presented to the producer of the Best Film. 50,000 TL will be
awarded to the “Best Director” Award.
The Special Prize of the Jury was awarded to İZ–REÇ / THE TRACE by M. Tayfur Aydın “for depicting
with a plain sense of tragedy and successfully universalising incidents that take place around a
challenging journey made to the past in all terms.”

The winner of the Special Prize of the Jury in memory of Onat Kutlar will be given a USD 30,000
monetary award by Efes.

The Best Actress Award to SANEM ÖGE for her performance in Şimdiki Zaman / Beyond the Hill;
The Best Actor Award to ENGİN GÜNAYDIN for his performance in Yeraltı / Inside.
A monetary prize of 10,000 TL will be given to each of the above-mentioned winners.

The Best Screenplay Award ex aequo to EMİN ALPER for his screenplay for Tepenin Ardı / Beyond
the Hill, and ORHAN ESKİKÖY for his screenplay for Babamın Sesi / Voice of My Father;
The Best Director of Photography Award to TÜRKSOY GÖLEBEYİ for his work in Yeraltı / Inside;
The Best Editing Award to ZEKİ DEMİRKUBUZ for his work for Yeraltı / Inside;
The Best Music Award to MUSTAFA BİBER for his work for İz-Reç / The Trace.
THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE FILM AWARD, “FACE”

The FACE Award (Council of Europe Film Award) is presented to the director of a film
that arises public awareness and interest in human rights issues. The award includes a
sculpture in bronze and a cash prize of 10,000 Euros. It is awarded as part of the Human
Rights in Cinema section of the festival. The Human Rights Jury of the 31st Istanbul Film
Festival composed of director Juanita Wilson, winner of last year’s FACE Award with As

If I Am Not There; Director General of Human Rights and Rule of Law of the Council of
Europe, Philippe Boillat, founder and chair of the board of Anadolu Kültür, Osman Kavala,
and Eurimages project manager Alessia Sonaglioni decided to give:

The FACE AWARD to CSAK A SZÉL / JUST THE WIND by Bence Fliegauf (Hungary-Germany-
France) for “breaking the stereotypes surrounding Roma people by its subtle portrayal of the life of a
family and the discrimination and violence they face.”

The Special Mention ex aequo to TERRAFERMA by Emanuele Crialese (Italy-France) “whose
powerful and accessible film addresses the crucial issue of migration to Europe today,” and CRULIC–
DRUMUL SPRE DINCOLO / CRULIC–THE PATH TO BEYOND by Anca Damian (Romania-Poland)
“for her personal and highly creative response to a tragic miscarriage of justice.”

INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF FILM CRITICS (FIPRESCI) PRIZES

The FIPRESCI Jury of the 31st Istanbul Film Festival presided over by Pamela Bienzóbas and
composed of Kerem Akça, Noura Borsali, Nicole Santé, Erman Ata Uncu and Dieter Wieczorek gave:

The FIPRESCI Prize in the International Competition to WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Andrea Arnold
(United Kingdom) for “the filmmaker succeeding in transforming psychologically painful states of
mind into a convincing and surprising visuality, and in bringing controversial issues through original
techniques to create a postmodern adaptation of a 19th century novel;”

The FIPRESCI Prize in the National Competition, to TEPENİN ARDI / BEYOND THE HILL by Emin
Alper, “for the way it uses cinema’s deep possibilities of abstraction to depict the universal dynamics of
power and fear of the other, within a story taking place in a limited space.”

PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS

People’s Choice Awards sponsored by the Radikal Newspaper and determined by the votes of the
Festival audience, are given to:

ALBERT NOBBS by Rodrigo García in the International Competition, and
YERALTI / INSIDE by Zeki Demirkubuz in the National Competition.

Bence Fliegauf wins the FACE prize at the Istanbul Film Festival for “Just the Wind” - Special
Mentions go to Anca Damian for “Crulic” and Emanuele Crialese for “Terraferma”

Istanbul, 15.04.2012 – Bence Flieghauf today received the 6th Film Award of the Council of Europe
(FACE) during the closing ceremony of the 31th international film festival in Istanbul. “Just the Wind”
breaks the stereotypes surrounding Roma people by its subtle portrayal of the life of a family and the
discrimination and violence they face.

The decision of the Human Rights Jury was announced by its President Juanita Wilson, winner

of FACE in 2011. The award was presented to the winner by Ambassador Rauf Engin Soysal,
Permanent Representative of Turkey to the Council of Europe.

The Jury members gave a Special Mention to “Crulic” by Anca Damian for her personal and
highly creative response to a tragic miscarriage of justice. A second Special Mention was given
to “Terraferma” by Emanuele Crialese whose powerful and accessible film addresses the crucial issue
of migration to Europe today.

The 10 films in this year’s selection highlight how abusive detention practices ruin the lives of innocent
individuals and their families and the devastating consequences of discrimination and violence against
minorities, migrants, women and children.

In this regard the Jury acknowledges “Simurgh” by Ruhi Karadag for documenting a tragic protest in
Turkey and the Iranian film “Goodbye” by Mohammad Rasoulof for highlighting the lack of freedom in
an oppressive political regime.

The prize awarded to “Just the Wind” consists of a bronze sculpture and a cash prize of 10 000 euros,
partly financed by Eurimages, the Council of Europe’s fund for the co-production, distribution and
exhibition of European cinematographic works.

The decision to create the FACE award reflects the Council of Europe’s commitment to both cinema
and cultural diversity, and is recognition of the contribution that the world of cinema can make in
developing human rights worldwide.

The FACE award is an annual collaboration between the Council of Europe and the Istanbul Film
Festival.

(*) Further information is available at www.coe.int or www.iksv.org/film

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