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The 27th Adana Altın Koza International Film Festival will be held online due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The festival will start on September 14 and guests won't be allowed in the award ceremony on September 20.
The festival will consist of the "National Feature Film Competition" and the "National Students Short Film Competition."
While all movies will be accessible online, they will also be screened at Adana Metropolitan Municipality's City Theater and the Amphitheater, İsmail Timuçin from the festival's executive board told Anadolu Agency (AA).
Past award-winning films and documentaries will also be available online during the festival, he said.
Awards worth a total of 465,000 lira (62,000 USD) will be given in 18 different categories.
About the FestivalAdana Golden Boll International Film Festival is one of the most prestigious and long-established film festivals in Turkey. It was inspired by the legendary director Yılmaz Güney, the winner of Golden Palm for Yol (1982), in the wake of a new era that marked a divergence from the traditional cinema towards a political consciousness. Adana, the homeland of several filmmakers, authors, artists and intellectuals including the Goncourt winner novelist Yashar Kemal was the second-largest market for Turkey's cinema in its golden era. The first festival was organized in 1969 by the municipality and Adana Cinema Club. The festival and its award took its name from the intensive cultivation of cotton on the Eastern Mediterranean coastal plain, Çukurova, where Adana is located. After four glorious years celebrating the success of Yılmaz Güney in the first place and also prominent filmmakers like Metin Erksan, Lütfi Akad, Yılmaz Duru, Bilge Olgaç and many others the festival had to come to an end due to economic crisis and political turmoil in Turkey. Military coups, martial law and state of emergency as well as a weak economy especially affected Adana, a city of the working class, both agricultural and industrial. The rebirth of the festival in 1992 was very warmly received by the film industry. Unfortunately, the earthquake which devastated the center of Adana in 1998 brought the festival to a halt. It was followed by the earthquake of Marmara in 1999, the biggest natural disaster recorded in modern Turkey. It took the Golden Boll seven years to restore itself. Since its reestablishment in 2005, Adana Golden Boll Film Festival gained an international status. The festival hosts approximately 600 guests in each edition. |
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