  Famous Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan arrives in Yerevan  July 16, 2011 - 16:10 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan visited Armenia on the sidelines of Golden Apricot 8th international film festival. Ceylan's Once Upon a Time in Anatolia was presented to Armenian viewers in festival framework. The film portrays a life in a small town, akin to a journey in the steppes in a sense that one anticipates "something new and different" appearing behind the hill, but there are always unerringly similar, tapering, vanishing or lingering monotonous roads... In Yerevan, the Turkish filmmaker was much impressed by Parajanov museum. Ceylan named Russian writer Anton Chekhov among the people he learnt from and spoke with high appreciation of Turkish cinema and film professionals. Turkish photographer and film director Nuri Bilge Ceylan was born in 1959 in Istanbul, Turkey. Ceylan learned photography at age 15, and developed an interest in film at 22. After graduating from the university with a BSc degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, he went on with his studies on cinema for two years at Mimar Sinan University. Ceylan's first short film Cocoon was screened in the 1995 Cannes IFF. He received many awards with his debut feature Small Town. His third feature Distant also received many awards including the Grand Jury Prize and the Best Actor Prize at Cannes, and was praised internationally. Ceylan makes films on an extremely low budget.   4 16.07.11 - Press conference of director Nuri Bilge Ceylan within the frameworks of Golden Apricot 8th Film Festival      Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Topic Latest news Titus, Bilirakis lead legislation to sanction Azerbaijani war criminals  Representatives Dina Titus (D-NV) and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) have introduced the bipartisan legislation.Azerbaijan must respect human rights, Scholz tells Aliyev German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called for greater respect for human rights in Azerbaijan.Armenia: Defense Ministry warns against involving army in political processes The Ministry’s statement came after a video surfaced online, showing soldiers joining the protests in Tavush.Scholz hopes Armenia-Azerbaijan peace treaty will be signed this year German Chancellor Olaf Scholz hopes that a peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan will be signed this year. |
