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1984

      The number of films produced during the year rises to 124.

     Screen-writer Yavuz Turgul directs his first feature and Orhan Elmas Kayıp Kızlar (Lost Girls) ranks as the year's biggest box-office hit.

      While the film industry struggles against the video boom two generations of directors signs a sequel of worthy features: in Firar (Escape) Şerif Gören gives one of his most audacious works in dealing with the story of a further lonely and oppressed woman and emphasising his heroin's sexual frustrations; in Ölmez Ağacı (The Undying Tree) Yusuf Kurçenli reaches a truly human dimention by telling the love story of a Turkish girl and a Greek youngman. Further portraits of women revolting against their conditions are sketched by Yavuz Turgul in Fahriye Abla (Sister Fahriye) and Atıf Yılmaz in Bir Yudum Sevgi (A Mouthful or Love). With his personal approach to the "women liberation" theme Atıf Yılmaz gives, with Bir Yudum Sevgi (A Mouthful of Love), to the Turkish cinema one of its most important works.

      Ali Özgentürk's Bekçi (The Guardian), Erdoğan Tokatlı's Fidan, Şerif Gören's Gizli Duygular (Secret Emotions), Bilge Olgaç's Kaşık Düşmanı (The Spoon Haters), Ertem Eğilmez's Namuslu (The Honest one), Tunç Okan's Cumartesi Cumartesi (Saturday Saturday) and Muammer Özer's works, stands as the year's noteworthy films.

      The "Film Yapımcıları Derneği

FİYAP" (Association of Film Producers) is founded. The Association, headed by producer Türker İnanoğlu, prepares and presents to the government a report dealing with video piracy and the peril it represents for the Turkish film industry.

     At the 21st Antalya Film Festival the followings are awarded:

Best film: Bir Yudum Sevgi (A Mouthful of Love), directed by Atıf Yılmaz

Second best film: Kardeşim Benim (My Brother), directed by Nesli Çölgeçen

Third best film: Kaşık Düşmanı (The Spoon Haters), directed by Bilge Olgaç

Best director: Atıf Yılmaz, for Bir Yudum Sevgi (A Mouthful of Love)

Best script: Bilge Olgaç, for Kaşık Düşmanı (The Spoon Haters)

Best photography: Selçuk Taylaner, for Kardeşim Benim (My Brother)

Best musical score: Yalçın Tura, for Bir Yudum Sevgi (A Mouthful of Love)

Best actress: Hale Soygazi, for Bir Yudum Sevgi (A Mounhful of Love)

Best actor: Tarık Akan, for Pehlivan (The Wrestler)

Best suporting actress: Zuhal Olcay, for İhtiras Fırtınası (Tempest of Passion)

Best suporting actor: Macit Koper, for Bir Yudum Sevgi (A Mouthful of Love)

Award of honor: Sezer Sezin

      Ömer Kavur'un Füruzan'dan uyarladığı Ah Güzel İstanbul ile Kırık Bir Aşk Hikayesi; Atıf Yılmaz'ın Deli Kan'ı, Ali Özgentürk'ün At'ı ve Sinan Çetin'in Çirkinler de Sever'i yılın özgün denemeleri olarak dikkati çektiler.

     During the course of the year the Turkish cinema wins further awards in international film festivals abroad:

Erden Kıral's Hakkâri'de Bir Mevsim (A Season in Hakkari) is chosen as the "opening film" at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games,

Şerif Gören's Derman gathers two awards at the 24th Karlovy Vary Festival:

The International Film Critics award,

The International Film Clubs Federation award.

Erden Kıral's Ayna (The Mirror) wins the Critics' award at the 3rd Film Festival of Mediterranean Cultures.

Ali Özgentürk's At (The Horse) is awarded the "grand prix" at the 1984 Sao Paulo International Film Festival. 1985

     127 features are produced. The film world gains two new directors, Başar Sabuncu (Çıplak Vatandaş/The Naked Citizen) and Ümit Elçi (Kurşun Ata Ata Biter/ Bullets Ends When Fired) plus a new producing company, Cengiz Ergun's "Estet Film".

      Halit Refiğ's Alev Alev (The Flame) is the year's biggest box-office hit and singer Küçük Emrah (Little Emrah) pushes further on the "arabesque" type musical melodram.

      The number of quality films increases: Atıf Yılmaz slides toward a socio-fantastic cinema with Adı Vasfiye (Her Name is Vasfiye), Nesli Çölgeçen, working on a script by Yavuz Turgul, brings a new dimention to comedy with Züğürt Ağa (The Broken Landlord) and with it character actor Şener Şen rises to stardom. Another successful example of social comedy is Başar Sabuncu's Çıplak Vatandaş (The Naked Citizen) and Şerif Gören brings his own interpretation in the re-make of Yılanların Öcü (The Vengeance of the Serpents).

      Ömer Kavur's Amansız Yol (Road Without Pity), Muammer Özer's Bir Avuç Cennet (A Handful of Heaven), Atıf Yılmaz's Dul Bir Kadın (A Widow), Bilge Olgaç's Gülüşan, Şerif Gören's Kan (Blood), Atilla Candemir's Kırlangıç Fırtınası (Sparrows' Tempest), Ömer Kavur's Körebe (Blindfold), Şerif Gören's Kurbağalar (The Frogs), Ümit Elçi's Kurşun Ata Ata Biter (Bullets Ends When Fired), Feyzi Tuna's Kuyucaklı Yusuf and Sinan Çetin's 14 Numara (No. 14) ranks among the year's best achievements. paylaştı. Metin Erksan'ın Susuz Yaz'la Berlin'de kazandığı büyük başarıdan sonra, bir Türk filminin "ikinci büyük zaferi"ydi bu. İnsanoğlunun temel sorunlarını sergileyen Yol, bir "sinema baş yapıtı" ve de "Türk sinemasının son yıllarda gerçekleştirdiği en güçlü filmlerinden biri" olarak kabul edildi.

     The Mimar Sinan Üniversity starts a retrospective titled "The Turkish cinema for the young ones". And at the 22nd Antalya Film Festival the awards are:

Best film: Dul Bir Kadın (A Widow), directed by Atıf Yılmaz

Second best film: 14 Numara (No. 14), directed by Sinan Çetin

Third best film: Bir Avuç Cennet (A Handful of Heaven), directed by Muammer Özer

Best director: Sinan Çetin, for 14 Numara (No.14)

Best script: Muammer Özer, for Bir Avuç Cennet (A Handful of Heaven)

Best photography: Orhan Oğuz, for Dul Bir Kadın (A Widow)

Best musical score: Tarık Öcal, for Bir Avuç Cennet (A Handful of Heaven)

Best actress:Zuhal Olcay, for Amansız Yol (Road Without Pity)

Best actor: Hakan Balamir, for 14 Numara (No.14)

Best suporting actress: Keriman Ulusoy, for 14 Numara (No.14)

Best suporting actor: Engin İnal, for Bir Kadın Bir Hayat (One Woman One Life) The Ministry of Culture and Tourism sponsors a film contest for feature films and short subjects. A four million Turkish Liras' award goes to the following films and producers:

Amansız Yol (Road Without Pity), directed and produced by Ömer Kavur.

Körebe (Blindfold), directed by Ömer Kavur, produced by Atıf Yılmaz,

Alev Alev (Flame), directed by Halit Refiğ, produced by Türker İnanoğlu,

Pehlivan (The Wrestler), directed by Zeki Ökten, produced by Şeref Gür, and the best short films chosen are:

Yeşile Renk Veren Şehir (The City who Gives Colour to Green), produced by Özdemir Birsel

Egemenlik Kayıtsız Şartsız Milletindir (Sovereignty Pertains Unconditionally to the People), produced by Behlül Dal,

Çömlekçi (The Potter), produced by Neşet Kırcaoğlu

Sultanahmet Meydanı (Sultanahmet Square), produced by Arif Keskiner,

Neşet Günal, produced by Prof. Sami Şekeroğlu başkaldıran "yeni kadın imajı"nı getirdiler beyaz perdeye. Ve "kadının kurtuluşu" açısından, özellikle de Bir Yudum Sevgi, Türk sinemasının son yıllarda çevrilen en önemli filmlerinden biri oldu.

      The year's first foreign award went to Şerif Gören's Derman and at the 25th Karlovy Vary Film Festival Talat Bulut won the "best character actor" award assigned by the Film Institute of the University of Prague. Derman was also awarded, as best film, with a "Golden Sword" at the 4th International Damascus Film Festival.

     At the 4th New German Cinema Film Festival held in Luxembourg Erden Kıral's Hakkâri'de Bir Mevsim (A Season in Hakkâri) was chosen "best film" by the audience.

      For his part in Pehlivan (The Wrestler), Tarık Akan won the Jury's "special mention" at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival.

      In the course of the 7th International Festival of Women's Films, held in Paris, Bilge Olgaç's Kaşık Düşmanı (The Spoon Haters) won the "best film" award as well as the "special award" assigned by the French press. And Halil Ergün was chosen "best actor" by the audience.

      At the Ist Tokyo International Film Festival, Ali Özgentürk's At (The Horse) was awarded a prize of 250 thousand US Dollars.

      Gülibik, A Turkish-German co-production, won the award assigned by the "Educational Film Library Association" at the New-York Film Festivali and Erden Kıral's Ayna (The Mirror) obtained the "grand prix" of the Figuera da Foz International Film Festival (Portugal).

     Süha Arın's short film Kapalıçarşı'da Kırkbin Adım (Forty Thousand Steps at the Grand Bazar), jointly produced by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Turkish Touring and Automobile Association, won the Jury's Honor Award at the Touristic Films Festival held in Vienna.

      In occasion of the "Istanbul International Film Days", organised by the "Istanbul Culture and Art Foundation", the following awards are assigned: "special mention" to Erden Kıral's Ayna (The Mirror), competing for the "Golden Tulipe Award"; a one million Turkish Liras prize, assigned by the "Eczacıbaşı Foundation", to Atıf Yılmaz producer and director of Bir Yudum Sevgi (A Moutful of Love). And a certificate of High Honor went to Zeki Öktem for his outstanding Pehlivan (The Wrestler). 1986

     Film production goes up to 185 features. The year's new actresses are Şahika Tekand and Sibel Turnagöl, the new directors Erdoğan Kar, Nisan Akman, İsmail Güneş and Tevfik Başar. And a new producer, Lokman Kondakçı, enters into the film world with his "Varlık Film" company.

      With Aaahh Belinda, staring Müjde Ar, Atıf Yılmaz signs the year's box-office hit (40 millions Turkish Liras).

      The interest toward the cinema is growing up and a law on "Cinema, Video and music works" is passed and applied which was prepared by the contributions of Mr. Mükerrem Taşçıoğlu, the pre-minister of Culture and Tourism. Over 20 features bring new insights and approaches to the national cinema. Among them Atıf Yılmaz's Aaahh Belinda,

     Ömer Kavur's Anayurt Oteli (Hotel Motherland), Başar Sabuncu's Asılacak Kadın (A Woman to Hang), Nesli Çölgeçen's Züğürt Ağa (The Broken Landlord) and Yavuz Turgul's Muhsin Bey (Mr. Muhsin) ranks as best achievements.Ömer Kavur's Anayurt Oteli (Motherland Hotel), backed by Macit Koper's composition, stands as a noteworthy example of literary adaptation.

     With Halkalı Köle (The Ringed Slave) from a novel by Bekir Yıldız, Ümit Efekan signs his best work and actress Zuhal Olcay tops with her incissive acting. Sinan Çetin's political Prenses (Princess), gives way to some polemics and the director's subsequent work, Gökyüzü (Sky), follows an escapist and abstract pattern.

     Atıf Yılmaz's Asiye Nasıl Kurtulur (How to Save Asiye) comes out as a brilliant musical and his Değirmen (The Mill) as a competently done period satyre. Further noteworthy films are Halit Refiğ's Teyzem (My Aunt), Süreyya Duru's Fatma Gül'ün Suçu Ne (Why Fatma Gül is Guilty), İsmail Güneş's Gün Doğmadan (Before Sunrise), Başar Sabuncu's Kupa Kızı (The Queen of Heart), Nisan Akman's Beyaz Bisiklet (The White Bycicle), Tevfik Başer's 40 Metrekare Almanya (40 Square Meters of Germany), Yusuf Kurçenli's Merdoğlu Ömer Bey, Zeki Ökten's Ses (The Voice), Ali Özgentürk's Su da Yanar (Water also Burns), Şerif Gören's Beyoğlu'nun Arka Yakası (The Back streets of Beyoğlu), Süreyya Duru's Uzun Bir Gece (A Long Night), Erdoğan Tokatlı's Suçumuz İnsan Olmak (Guilty of Being Humans) and Erdem Kıral's Dilan.

      Awards at the 23. Antalya Film Festival goes as follows:

Best film: Aaahh Belinda, directed by Atıf Yılmaz.

Second best film: Yılanların Öcü (The Vengeance of the Serpents), directed by Şerif Gören.

Third best film: Adı Vasfiye (Here Name is Vasfiye), directed by Atıf Yılmaz.

Best director: Atıf Yılmaz, for Aaahh Belinda.

Best script: Yavuz Turgul, for Züğürt Ağa (The Broken Landlord)

Best photography: Aytekin Çakmakçı

Best musical score: Atilla Özdemiroğlu, for Kurbağalar (The Frogs) and Züğürt Ağa (The Broken Landlord)

Best actress: Müjde Ar, for Aaahh Belinda and Adı Vasfiye (Her Name is Vasfiye)

Best actor: Kadir İnanır, for Yılanların Öcü (The Vengeance of the Serpents)

Best suporting actress: Füsun Demirel, for Züğürt Ağa (The Broken Landlord)

Best suporting actor: Erdal Özyağcılar, for Yılanların Öcü (The Vengeance of the Serpents)

Best studio: Fono Film

Jury's special award: Beyaz Bisiklet (The White Bycicle), directed by Nisan Akman.

     The jury of the awards sponsored by the "Eczacıbaşı Foundation", in the course of the "İstanbul International Film Days" splits the 2 million Turkish Liras award between the following three directors:

Atıf Yılmaz, for Adı Vasfiye (Her Name is Vasfiye)

Nesli Çölgeçen, for Züğürt Ağa (The Broken Landlord)

Ömer Kavur, for Amansız Yol (Road Without Pity).

      The Ministry of Culture's 4 million Turkish Liras awards goes to the followings producers:

Lokman Kondakçı, for Gün Doğmadan (Before Sunrise), directed by İsmail Güneş,

Lokman Kondakçı, for Merdoğlu Ömer Bey, directed by Yusuf Kurçenli,

Kadri Yurdatap, for Beyaz Bisiklet (The White Bycicle), directed by Nisan Akman.

Selim Soydan, for Kurbağalar (Frogs), directed by Şerif Gören

İsmet Kazancıoğlu, for Kan (Blood), directed by Şerif Gören.

      During the year the Turkish cinema participates to several foreign film festivals: Amansız Yol (Road Without Pity) is showed at the Tashkent Film Festival while

      Hakkâri'de Bir Mevsim (A Season in Hakkâri), Ayna (The mirror), Bekçi (The guardian), Kaşık Düşmanı (The Spoon Haters) and Kan (Blood) compete in Venice and in Rimini, at the European Cinema Festival Adı Vasfiye (Her Name is Vasfiye) gains attention through its approach to women's problems.

      At the 14th Strasbourg Film Festival, Ali Özgentürk's Bekçi (The Guardian) and Muammer Özer's Bir Avuç Cennet (A Handful of Heaven) are awarded, ex-aequo, "Second Best Film".

     Yokuş (The Slope), a short directed by Dilek Gökçe, gets the International Grand Jury's award at the 32nd Oberhausen Short Film Festival, and Zeki Ökten's Pehlivan (The Wrestler), competing among 31 films at the 11th International Sport Films Festival wins the award assigned by the International Olympic Games Committee.

      Bir Avuç Cennet (A Handful of Heaven) obtains a "mention" in France at the 7th World Country Cinema Festival as well as the "grand prix" of the 7th International Immigrants Films Festival (Sweden), and actress Hülya Koçyiğit obtains the "best actress" award, for her part in Kurbağalar (Frogs) at the 8th Nantes Three Continents Festival. 1987

      185 features are produced. The year's new directors are Şahin Kaygun, Zülfi Livaneli, Engin Ayça, Orhan Oğuz, Muzaffer Hiçdurmaz and Yavuzer Çetinkaya.

      The number of personal and original films grows steadily gaining, at the box-office, much more appeal than the conventional and star-packed vehicles. In other words, the "author's cinema", once started by directions such as Lütfi Akad, Metin Erksan, Atıf Yılmaz and Yılmaz Güney, goes on in the works of Erden Kıral and Ömer Kavur gaining a new and contemporary freshness. Such an approach is also sustained by the performances of actresses (instead of stars) such as Zuhal Olcay, Şahika Tekand, Nur Sürer, Şerif Sezer, Fatoş Sezer and Gülsen Tuncer.

      Atıf Yılmaz follows his Adı Vasfiye (Her Name is Vasfiye) and Aaahh Belinda with a third social fantasy: Hayallerim, Aşkım ve Sen (My Fantasies, my Love and You) and the year's achievements are: Şahin Kaygun's Afife Jale Erden Kıral's Av Zamanı (The Hunting), Engin Ayça's Bez Bebek (The Rag Doll), Ümit Elçi's Bir Avuç Gökyüzü (A Handful of Sky), Tunç Başaran's Biri ve Diğerleri (One and the Others), Muzaffer Hiçdurmaz's Çark (The Wheel), Süreyya Duru's Çil Horoz (The Rufffed Rooster), Şahin Kaygusuz's Dolunay (Full Moon), Nisan Akman's Dünden Sonra Yarından Önce (After Yesterday and Before Tomorrow), Erdoğan Tokatlı's 72. Koğuş (Ward 72), Ömer Kavur's Gece Yolculuğu (Night Trip), Yusuf Kurçenli's Gramofon Avrat (The Gramophone Woman), Bilge Olgaç's İpekçe (Silky), Başar Sabuncu's Kaçamak (Escape), Atıf Yılmaz's Kadının Adı Yok (The Woman Has No Name), Muammer Özer's Kara Sevdalı Bulut (The Love Crazy Cloud), Şerif Gören's Katırcılar (The Muleteers) and On Kadın (The Women), Korhan Yurtsever's Zincir (The Chain), Zülfü Livanelli's Yer Demir Gök Bakır (Earth of Iron Sky of Copper), Sami Güçlü's Yarın Yarın (Tomorrow Tomorrow), Yavuz Özkan's Yağmur Kaçakları (The Rain Smugglers), İrfan Tözüm's Rumuz Goncagül (Symbol Rosebud) and Nesli Çölgeçen's Selamsız Bandosu (The Band of Selamsız).

     "SESAM-Sinema Eseri Meslek Sahipleri Birliği" or "Union of Professional Owners of Cinema Works" is founded and producer Türker İnanoğlu nominated President.

      Awards of the 24 th Antalya Film Festival goes to:

Best film: Muhsin Bey (Mr. Muhsin), directed by Yavuz Turgul,

Second best film: Anayurt Oteli (Motherland Hotel), directed by Ömer Kavur,

Third best film: Hayallerim, Aşkım ve Sen (My Fantasies, my Love and You), directed by Atıf Yılmaz,

Best director: Ömer Kavur, for Anayurt Oteli (Motherland Hotel),

Best script: Yavuz Turgul, for Muhsin Bey (Mr. Muhsin),

Best photography: Çetin Tunca, for Hayallerim, Aşkım ve Sen (My Fantasies, my Love and You),

Best musical score: Atilla Özdemiroğlu, for Muhsin Bey (Mr. Muhsin),

Best actress: Türkân Şoray, for Hayallerim, Aşkım ve Sen (My Fantasies, my Love and You),

Best actor: Şener Şen, for Muhsin Bey (Mr. Muhsin),

Best suporting actress: Hümeyra, for Asiye Nasıl Kurtulur (How to Save Asiye)

Best suporting actor: Uğur Yücel, for Muhsin Bey (Mr. Muhsin),

Award of honor: Metin Erksan

      At the "International Film Days of Istanbul" Ömer Kavur's Anayurt Oteli (Motherland Hotel) wins the "Eczacıbaşı Foundation" best film award.

      The Ministry of Culture and Tourism's 8 million Turkish Liras awards are assigned to the following producers:

Abdurrahman Keskiner, for Muhsin Bey (Mr. Muhsin)

Kadri Yurdatap, for Bir Kırık Bebek (A Broken Doll)

Ömer Kavur, for Gece Yolculuğu (Night Trip)

Türker İnanoğlu, for Gönülden Gönüle (From Heart to Heart)

Lokman Kondakçı, for İpekçe (Silky).

      The 2.5 Million Turkish Liras short film award goes to Behlül Dal for his Mavi Yolculuk (Blue Trip).

      The Turkish cinema gains further attention abroad: in Nantes, at the 9th Three Continents Festival, director Metin Erksan is honored with a retrospective covering five of his works:

      Yavuz Özkan's Maden (The Mine) gets its Parisian release in four theaters; Zülfü Livaneli's Yer Demir Gök Bakır (Earth of Iron Sky of Copper) enters the Cannes Film Festival's "Un certain regard" section and Ömer Kavur's Anayurt Oteli as well as Zeki Ökten's Ses (The Voice) competes in Valencia.

     Muammer Özer's Bir Avuç Cennet (A Handful of Heaven), already winner of several awards, gets the "best script" and "best film" awards at the 13 th Santarem International Film Festival.

     Ömer Kavur's Anayurt Oteli (Motherland Hotel)shares, at the 44 th Venice Film Festival, the FIPRESCI award with Ermanno Olmi's "Lunga vita alla signora" as well as sharing, at the 8 th Valencia Mediterranean Film Festival, with Mazzacura's "La notte Italiana" the "bronze medal" as "Third best film". At the 9th Nantes Three Continents Film Festival Anayurt Oteli (Motherland Hotel) takes the "grand prix" and Macit Koper is awarded "best actor".

     The year's last award goes to Zülfi Livaneli's Yer Demir Gök Bakır (Earth of Iron Sky of Copper) winner, at San Sebastian, of the OCIC prize. 1988

      Three new women directors sings their first feature: Mahinud Ergun, with Gece Dansı Tutsakları (Prisoners of A Night Dance), writer Füruzan and painter Gülsün Karamustafa coauthoring Benim Sinemalarım (My Movie Houses).

     Atıf Yılmaz's Kadının Adı Yok (The Women Has No Name) breaks all past box-office records and Yılmaz's adaptation of Duygu Asena's novel gathers, in İstanbul, 140 million Turkish Liras in 6 weeks.

     A Turkish-Sooviet co-production, based on a work by Cengiz Aykmatov and directer by Hocakulu Narliyev (The day grows longer and becomes a century) is launched.

      Among the actors of the young generation Tarık Tarcan gains a particular attention.

     The social security problem of artists and workers of the Turkish cinema are taken into consideration with the close interest of State Minister Adnan Kahveci and Foreign Minister Mesut Yılmaz.. State Minister Adnan Kahveci launches an "Off-Shore Media Project" aiming at bringing foreign founds to Turkey.

      The "Film Actors' Association" (SODER) is founded and Türkan Şoray is nominated President.

     The Prime Minister Turgut Özal honors the laying of the foundation of a "rest house" for indigent actors.

     Başar Sabuncu's Zengin Mutfağı (Wealthy Kitchen), Zeki Ökten's Düttürü Dünya (Whistling World), Şerif Gören's Polizei (The Cop) and Füruzan-Karamustafa's Benim Sinemalarım (The Movie Houses) are the year's noteworthy items. Tunç Başaran's Biri ve Diğerleri (One and the Others) is awarded "best film" by the "Eczacıbaşı Foundation", in the course of the 7 th Istanbul International Film Days. The said foundation awards Yusuf Kurçenli's Gramofon Avrat (Gramaphone Woman), adapted from a short-story by Sabahattin Ali, a certificate of honor while Yavuz Turgul's Muhsin Bey (Mr. Muhsin) gets the Jury's Award. Afife Jale (Şahin Kaygun), Av Zamanı (Erden Kıral), Bez Bebek (Engin Ayça), Bir Avuç Gökyüzü (Ümit Elçi), Biri ve Diğerleri (Tunç Başaran), Çark (Muzaffer Hiçdurmaz), Çil Horoz (Süreyya Duru), Dolunay (Şahin Kaygun), Dünden Sonra Yarından Önce (Nisan Akman), 72.Koğuş (Erdoğan Tokatlı), Gece Yolculuğu (Ömer Kavur), Gramafon Avrat (Yusuf Kurçenli), Her Şeye Rağmen (Orhan Oğuz), İpekçe (Bilge Olgaç), Kaçamak (Başar Sabuncu), Kadının Adı Yok (Atıf Yılmaz), Kara Sevdalı Bulut (Muammer Özer), Katırcılar (Şerif Gören), On Kadın (Şerif Gören), Zincir (Korhan Yurtsever), Yer Demir Gök Bakır (Zülfü Livaneli), Yarın Yarın (Sami Güçlü), Yağmur Kaçakları (Yavuz Özkan), Rumuz Goncagül (İrfan Tözüm), Selamsız Bandosu (Nesli Çölgeçen).

     A First Ankara Film Festival is held in the capital and the "First Film Contest", aiming at encouraging young directors, awards the followings:

Best film: Her Şeye Rağmen (Despite Everything), directed by Orhan Oğuz

Second best film: Bez Bebek (The Rag Doll), directed by Engin Ayça

Third best film: Dolunay (Full Moon), directed by Şahin Kaygun

Best actress: Şerif Sezer, for Her Şeye Rağmen (Despite Everything)

Best actor: Talat Bulut, for Her Şeye Rağmen (Despite Everything)

Best suporting actress: Derya Yücel, for Bir Kırık Bebek (A Broken Doll)

Best suporting actor: Orhan Çağman, for Bir Kırık Bebek (A Broken Doll)

Best script: Engin Ayça, for Bez Bebek (The Rag Doll)

Best photography: Salih Dikişçi, for Dolunay (Full Moon)

Best musical score: Cahit Berkay, for Her Şeye Rağmen (Despite Everything), Çark (The Wheel), Sızı (Pain) and Sis (Fog).

      The awards of the Short Film Contest goes as follows:

Best short film: Marjinal, directed by Oğuzhan Tarcan

Second best short: Uslu Köyün Masalı (Tale of the Wellbehaved Village), directed by Neşet Kırcalıoğlu

Third best short: Vapurlar (Boats), directed by Mehmet Güreli.

      And the Turkish cinema goes further on in gaining attention and appreciation in competitions and festivals abroad. Sinan Çetin's 14 Numara (No.14) competes at the 16 th Strasbourg Film Festival; Director of Photography Jurgen Jurges gets the German Camera Award, for his work in Zülfü Livanelli's Yer Demir Gök Bakır (Earth of Iron Sky of Copper) at the Foto Kino Fair held in Kölh. tarihinin en büyük gişe rekorunu (İstanbul sinemalarında 6 haftada 140 milyon TL) kırdı.

     Orhan Oğuz's Her Şeye Rağmen (Despite Everything) is nominated "best film" among Europe's best critics choice following an award in Cannes (The Youth Award). Oğuz's film is also a winner at the 37 th Mannheim Film Festival obtaining a "grand prix" covering 20.000 German Marks.

      Finally Yavuz Tuğrul's Muhsin Bey (Mr. Muhsin) gets the Jury's special award at the 36 th San Sebastian Film Festival. And at the 25 th Antalya Film Festival awards goes as follows:

Best film: Gece Yolculuğu (Night Ride), directed by Ömer Kavur

Best Second film: Dolunay (Full Moon), directed by Korhan Yurtsever

Third best film: Zincir (The Chain), directed by Korhan Yurtsever

Best director: Ömer Kavur, for Gece Yolculuğu (Night Ride)

Best photography: Salih Dikişçi, for Gece Yolculuğu (Night Ride)

Best music score: Atilla Özdemiroğlu, for Gece Yolculuğu (Night Ride)

Best actress: Gülşen Bubikoğlu, for Kurtar Beni (Save me)

Best actor: Aytaç Arman, for Gece Yolculuğu (Night Ride)

Best suporting actress: Fatoş Sezer, for Kurtar Beni (Save me)

Best suporting actor: Tanju Gürsu, for Kurtar Beni (Save me)

Award of honor: Süreyya Duru bölümü'nde birincilik ödülüne değer görüldü. Ve daha önce de Cannes Film Şenliği'nde gençlik ödülü almıştı.

      In Ankara the Turkish-American Association present a Showing of Award Winning Turkish Films.

     The end of 1988 brings further awards to the Turkish cinema: at the 8 th Amiens International Film Festival, Hülya Koçyiğit is nominated "Best Actress" for her part in Engin Ayça's Bez Bebek (The Rag Doll).

      In Paris a retrospective of Yılmaz Güney's films is held, including Umut (Hope) Ağıt (Elegy) Endişe (Anxiety), Zavallılar (The Miserables) and Düşman (The Ennemy).

      Kaçamak (Escape), directed by Başar Sabuncu, Bez Bebek (The Rag Doll), directed by Engin Ayça, Her Şeye Rağmen (Despite Everything), directed by Orhan Oğuz, participate to the 32nd London Film Festival.

      In Ottawa a Showing of Turkish Films is organised by the Ontario Film Institute, the Toronto Turkish Association and the Turkish Embassy in Ottawa. The showing includes: Zeki Ökten's Pehlivan (The Wrestler), Bilge Olgaç's İpekçe (Silky), Nisan Akman's Beyaz Bisiklet (The White Bycicle), Atıf Yılmaz's Aaahh Belinda, Halit Refiğ's Aşk-ı Memnu (Forbidden Love) and Ömer Kavur's Amansız Yol (Road without Pity).

     And the year's last award is given to director Lütfi Ö. Akad. Akad gets the "Grand Award for Culture and Art", awarded by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism for services and contributions to the film art.

     The Ministry of Culture and Tourism also awards, with a prize of 8.000.000 Turkish Liras, the following films:

Ada (The Island), directed by Süreyya Duru and produced by Dilek Duru,

Kurtar Beni (Save Me) directed by Halit Refiğ and produced by Türker İnanoğlu

Av Zamanı (The Hunting), directed by Erden Kıral and procuded by Kadri Yurdatap,

Dolunay (Full Moon), directed and produced by Şahin Kaygun,

Selamsız Bandosu (The Band of Selamsız), directed by Nesli Çölgeçen and produced by Nahit Ataman.

      The Ministry's Committee chooses, for its "Jury's Special Award", Orhan Oğuz, director of Her Şeye Rağmen (Despite Everything) for his "contribution to the Turkish cinema and his success on the international film world."
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