04-10-2007

More than 80 titles to be screened at Eurasia Film Festival

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    More than 80 titles will be screened at the 3rd International Eurasia Film Festival, which is the gateway to the 44th Antalya Film Festival in Turkey. Awards of $75,000 and $25,000 will be granted in the "Best Film" and "Best Director" categories respectively.

    The "Critics Award" section line-up will be evaluated by a jury
    of international and local film critics and the producer of the winning film will be
    awarded $15,000.
    The competition line-up includes:
    --Asif Kapadia's Sara Maitland adaptation of Far North,an epic tale set in the harsh
    beauty of the Arctic, starring Michelle Yeoh and Sean Bean
    --Sergei Bodrov's Mongol, a Germany-Kazakhstan-Russian co-production on the life of the
    founder of the biggest empire in history, the legendary Genghis Khan
    --You, the Living, Roy Andersson's nsrration of the nature of humankind, its greatness,
    its baseness, joy and sorrow
    --Tony Ayres' The Home Song Stories, about a Chinese singer and her family who settle in
    Australia in the 1970s starring Joan Chen
    --Kenneth Bi's film The Drummer, which combines an engaging character-driven story with
    dramatic action and the stunning art of Chinese zen drumming
    --Eran Korilin's feature directorial debut, The Band's Visit, which won the Jury Coup de
    Coeur prize in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2007 Cannes Film Festival
    --The Assembly, the latest film bu celebrated Chinese director Xiaogang Feng, the
    adaptation of a short story about a soldier who seeks recognition for his fallen comrades
    during the Chinese civil war in 1949
    --and French star Sophie Marceau's second feature film as a director, Trivial.
    Two Turkish productions are featured in the competition section of the International
    Eurasia Film Festival this year: Egg," the first film of a trilogy by Semih Kaplanoğlu,
    which was screened at Cannes; and Handan İpekçi's latest feature Hidden Faces, based on
    the issue of "honour crimes" in Turkey.