44th IFSAK Short Film and Documentary Competition Concluded

The awards for the 19 films and their directors deemed worthy by the main jury were presented at the closing and awards ceremony held on Saturday, March 16, at the French Cultural Center hall, with a record-breaking attendance.

42 films selected from 312 films by the preliminary jury consisting of academician, cinema critic Bahar KILIÇ ADİLÇE, director Deniz TORTUM and İFSAK Cinema Unit member Gönül GÖZEN were evaluated by the main jury consisting of academician, documentary film director Ethem ÖZGÜVEN, cinema critic Zeynep ÜNAL and director Ziya DEMİREL.

At the ceremony, the Cinema Labor Award, which we give regularly every year, was also awarded. This year's winner of the award is Çetin TUNCA, one of the sycamores of Yeşilçam, who has devoted many years to cinema and is the cinematographer of unforgettable films such as Selvi Boylum Al Yazımalı, Hayallerim Aşkım and Sen.

Among the 42 films that passed the pre-selection in the 44th IFSAK Short Film and Documentary Competition, in addition to the top three, the short films that were deemed worthy of honorable mention and special jury awards, their categories and directors are as follows:

Fiction

1. Let's not go out on an empty stomach, Director: Yiğit HEPSEV
2. In His Castle, Director: Yasemin DEMİRCİ
3. Gardens Idol Was Cut , Director: Ali CABBAR

Fiction Honorable Mention

1. A Day of Salesman , Director: Erinç DURLANIK
2. Something Everyone Can Do, Director: Selen ÖRCAN

Documentary

1. Syrian Cosmonaut, Director: Charles Emir RICHARDS
2. Everything is OK, Director: Muhammet BEYAZDAĞ
3. Children of the White Mountain, Director: Yalçın ÇİFTÇİ

Documentary Mention

1. 8 March 2020: A Diary, Director: Fırat YÜCEL

Experimental

1. Ben-gi, Director: Selen Terzi ÖZTEKİN
2. Mashallah!, Director: Ezgi AY
3. I You He Him We You They, Director: Sevin YAMAN

Experimental Mention

1. Homecoming, Director: Dilan ENGİN
2. Rewind Tapes, Director: Miray KAVAS

Animation

1. The Wolf's Box, Director: Uğur SAVAŞ
2. Symbiosis, Director: Mehmed Akif YILDIZ
3. The Maze, Director: Selçuk ÖREN

Animation Honorable Mention

1. Balance, Directors: Sinan DEMİRTAŞ & Dominika MUNIAK

Special Jury Prize

Finally, Director: Official EMİR