Five Turkish movies headed for Montreal World Film Festival
(Culture - 14/08/2009)
Three more Turkish films have been added to the lineup of this year's Montreal World Film Festival, raising the total number of Turkish movies in the festival to five.
Young filmmaker Atıl İnaç's sophomore feature "Büyük Oyun" (A Step Into the Darkness), Bahadır Karataş's Turkish-Bosnian co-production "Usta" (The Master) and Ümit Ünal's fourth feature-directing effort, "Gölgesizler" (The Shadowless), have been added to the festival's Focus On World Cinema program, the organizers announced this week.
As announced earlier this month, Çağan Irmak's upcoming psychological drama "Karanlıktakiler" (In Darkness), which follows a 30-something office boy (Erdem Akakçe) who still lives with his mother, will have its world premiere at the festival. Abdullah Oğuz's 2008 crime drama "Sıcak" (Kismet) rounds out the Turkish entrants in the 33rd year of the festival, which is slated for Aug. 27-Sept. 7.
İnaç's “Büyük Oyun,” which has yet to make its Turkish premiere, follows the tragic story of a girl who loses her entire family during a US-led operation against insurgents in her village in US-occupied Iraq and escapes to Turkey to find her brother. İnaç co-wrote the film's screenplay with veteran journalist Avni Özgürel, who also penned the script for “Zincirbozan,” İnaç's 2007 feature debut, which recounts events that led to the Sept. 12, 1980 military coup.
“Usta,” Karataş's first foray into feature filmmaking after many years of directing commercials, follows the story of a car repairman whose greatest dream is to make planes. The film opened in Turkish theaters in May. The 2009 fantastic fiction “Gölgesizler,” Ünal's fourth directing effort, which opened in theaters in February, tells of a faraway village where people strangely disappear.
Some 108 films from the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania are featured in the Focus on World Cinema program, which the organizers say reflects the vocation of the Montreal fest as a “World Film Festival.” Other sections in the festival include the World Competition, First Films World Competition, Hors Concours (World Greats to be featured out of competition), Documentaries of the World and Tributes.

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