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Istanbul Film Festival Director Hulya Ucansu resigned yesterday.

Ucansu will leave her post after the close of the 25th Istanbul Film

Festival, according to a statement released by the Istanbul Culture

Art Foundation (IKSV), organizers of the festival.

The resignation of Ucansu, working for the festival since 1983 and

serving as director since 1984, announced during the second and final

week of the festival, came as a major shock. Ucansu had wanted to

inform the foreign guests of her decision which is why she announced

her resignation before the festival ended.

See: Istanbul Film Festivali'nin gizli kahramani H�LYA U�ANSU

H�lya U�ansu

She was born in 1950 in Bandirma, Turkey. After graduating from the

American College in Istanbul in 1971, she studied English Language and

Literature at Istanbul University (1973-77). Her links with cinema

began as a deputy manager at the Turkish Film Archive in 1975. After

working on the organisation of various festivals in Turkey, she was

appointed Director of the International Istanbul Film Festival in

1983, a post she has held ever since. In 1996, as the director of this

festival, she was responsible for staging a great Turkish Film

Retrospective at the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris. She has taken

part as a jury member at important international festivals, such as

Venice, Montreal, Rotterdam, Montpellier, Valladolid or Taormina.

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TIMES AND WINDS by Reha Erdem

TIMES AND WINDS | BES VAKIT

Turkey, 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 100'

Director: Reha Erdem; Cast:�zkan �zen, Ali Bey Kayali, Elit Iscan

Reha Erdem's eagerly waited latest work after Mommy, I'm Scared, will

premier and be first seen by its audience at the festival. A tiny,

poor village, leaning on high cliffs, facing the vast sea, its

outskirts laced with olive groves. The inhabitants of the village are

simple, hard-working people who struggle to cope with the tough

natural features of the land. They live by the rhythm of the earth,

air, and water, of the day, the night and the seasons. Time in this

village is divided into five times with the prayer call sounding. All

things human happen in these five times. Three children, passing from

childhood into adolescence, all aged twelve-thirteen, �mer, Yakup and

Yildiz, stand out from others in this five-timed film. Five times

pass. The children grow up slowly, swinging back and forth between

rage and guilt.

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Awards | The 25th International Istanbul Film Festival

The 25th International Istanbul Film Festival is coming to an end

Istanbul Film Festival's Closing Gala and Awards Ceremony took place

on the evening of April 14, Saturday at L�tfi Kirdar Congress and

Exhibition Hall.

With songs performed by Isin Karaca and H�sn� Senlendirici, the Gala

was aired live on CNNT�rk.

The "Cinema Honorary Awards" were presented to legendary French actors

G�rard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve by IKSV President Sakir

Eczacibasi.

A Cock and Bull Story by Michael Winterbottom won the Golden Tulip

Award, which was presented to Joy Wong, the representative of the

film's international distributor The Works, by the president of the

Golden Tulip Jury, Jean-Paul Rappeneau.

Awards of the 25th International Istanbul Film Festival

International Competition

The International Jury of the 25th International Istanbul Film

Festival presided over by Jean-Paul Rappeneau (France) and composed of

Prune Engler (France), Reha Erdem (Turkey); Nick James (United

Kingdom), Makram Khoury (Israel), and Isik Yenersu (Turkey) has

decided to give:

* The Golden Tulip Award to "A Cock And Bull Story" directed by

Michael Winterbottom (United Kingdom) for the simplicity, invention

and humour with which the film successfully adapts a notoriously

unadaptable novel, celebrating cinema and literature at the same time.

National Competition

The National Jury of the 25th International Istanbul Film Festival

presided over by Zuhal Olcay (Turkey), and composed of Reis �elik

(Turkey), Leyla �zalp (Turkey), Daniela Sannwald (Germany) and Giorgio

Gosetti di Sturmeck (Italy) has decided to give:

* The Best Turkish Film Of The Year Award to "Bes Vakit / Times And

Winds" directed by Reha Erdem; for expressing the universal, the

sentiments and conflicts pertaining to all human kind, as well as its

courageous approach to taboo subjects with which the society needs to

confront, without giving any concessions from cinematic concerns or

aesthetics.

* The Best Director Of The Year Award to Kutlug Ataman for his film

"Iki Gen� Kiz / Two Girls" for adapting and directing an international

contemporary story with a radical aesthetic approach.

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey gave a monetary prize of

40.000 YTL to each of the above-mentioned winners.

* The Best Actress Award to Serif Sezer for her performance in "Babam

ve Oglum / My Father and Son";

* The Best Actor Award has been conferred to Fikret Kuskan for his

performance in "Babam ve Oglum / My Father and Son";

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey gave a monetary prize of

10.000 YTL to each of the above-mentioned winners.

* The Special Prize Of The Jury went to The People Of Mugla for their

heartfelt support they have given to the art of cinema as cast and

crew members in the film "Dondurmam Gaymak / Ice Cream, I Scream".

Fipresci Awards

The FIPRESCI Jury of the 25th International Istanbul Film Festival

presided over by Blagoja Kunovski (Macedonia), and composed of Ahmed

Hassouna (Egypt), Ayla Kanbur (Turkey), Anita Piotrowska (Poland),

Antti Selkokari (Finland) and Firat Y�cel (Turkey), gave:

* The FIPRESCI Award in the International Competition to "A Cock And

Bull Story" by Michael Winterbottom (United Kingdom), for its

challenging and original approach towards adapting the novel that

seems to be impossible to be adapted.

* The FIPRESCI Award in the National Competition, in memory of Onat

Kutlar, went to "Bes Vakit / Times And Winds" directed by Reha Erdem,

for once again, proving his talent in the winning film as beautifully

capturing the universal themes of life and death.

As in the previous years, Efes Pilsen has given a prize of US$ 30.000

to the winner of the Onat Kutlar Prize, Reha Erdem, to be used for his

next film project.

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:


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