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The 63rd International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival presented its awards at a closing ceremony at the Cam Piramit Fair and Congress Center in Antalya, a Mediterranean coastal city in southern Türkiye.
The festival, hosted by the Antalya Metropolitan Municipality, ran Oct. 24-31.
“Stone and Feather” (“Tas ve Tuy”), directed by Ragip Turk, won best film in the National Feature Film Competition and left the ceremony with six awards.
Turk also received the best screenplay award for the film, which follows a woman released from prison as she tries to reunite with her son in a children’s home.
The film also took the Film-Yon Best Director Award, the Cahide Sonku Award for actor Melda Tuzluca, a share of the best editing award for Naim Kanat and the Sungu Capan National Cinema Writers Award.
In his acceptance speech, Turk said he moved to Istanbul in 2003 to become a musician and enrolled in the cinema and television department at Istanbul University’s Faculty of Communication, without any plan to make films.
He said he later found a job by chance on a film set. “That is where I really began to understand what cinema is,” Turk said. He said he decided to become a director there and thanked director Yesim Ustaoglu for inspiring him.
Ustaoglu won the best director award for “What Remains” (“Artakalan”). Oyku Karayel won best actress for her role in the film. Mehmet Gunsur and Mert Firat shared the best actor award for their roles in “Hakikatin Olumu.”
Duygu Kose, 12, won the best supporting actress award for her role in “About a Mother” (“Bir Anne Hakkinda”). Directed by Busra Bulbul, the film also received the Behlul Dal Best First Film Award.
The International Feature Film Competition’s best film award went to “The Moon Is a Father of Mine” (“Babalarimdan Biri Ay’dir”), directed by George Ovashvili. Lorenzo Ferro and Lucas Vignale won Best Director for “The River Train” (“Nehir Treni”).
Magdalena Laubisch won Best Actress for “Six Weeks On” (“Alti Haftalik Veda”). Mahendra Perera, Shyam Fernando, Randika Gunathilaka and Priyantha Sirikumara won Best Actor for their roles in “The Riverstone.”
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