ANKARA'S FESTIVAL IS 30 YEARS’ OLD

19 April 2019 Friday 14:05

Ankara International Film Festival, which started out as a film festival with Ankara's culture and art dynamics, is 30 years’ old.

Alper Taşdelen; "Henceforward, Ankara and Istanbul will be remembered for art much more. Let March 31 be our Spring.”

Ankara International Film Festival, which has been supported by Çankaya Municipality since it started as a film festival with the cultural art dynamics of the capital, is 30 years old. The Festival, which is set out with the Honorary Awards Ceremony held at MEB Şura Hall, will keep the spring living in Ankara with 120 films in 10 days.

Çankaya Mayor Alper Taşdelen, who received a plaque from the journalist Şükrü Küçükşahin for her contributions to the festival, congratulated the “World Mass Media and Research Foundation” for trying to keep the capital's oldest cultural arts festival alive for 30 years.

Mr. Taşden, who emphasized that the festival brings spring to Ankara every year, said that: “We will continue our support for art. There will be more culture and art in Ankara. We will reach to an Ankara that we seek for. Henceforward, Ankara and Istanbul will be remembered for art much more. Let March 31 be our Spring."

The honorary awards were presented their owners at the 30th Ankara International Film Festival organized by the World Mass Media Research Foundation. Kadir İnanır, who was deemed worthy of Aziz Nesin Emek Award, took the festival statuette from the hands of DKİV Chairman İrfan Demirkol.

After conveying his memoirs about Aziz Nesin, Mr. İnanır stated that there was a need for courageous and enlightened people who thought, talk, and live in a democratic country. Metropoliten author Nazlı Eray, who received her Art Plane Tree award from the hands of Vecdi Sayar, expressed her dignity and said she would try to be worthy of the prize.

Gülse Birsel, who won the Mass Communication Award, greeted the participants by sending a video to the ceremony where she could not attend because of the intensity of the set works.

Deputy Parliament Speaker Levent Gök, Deputy Mithat Sancar,  Deputy Director General of the Cinema at the Ministry of Culture and Tourism Mustafa Selçuk Yavuzkanat also attended to the ceremony where artists attended and hosted by Şenay Gürler ve Ünsal Ünlü.

THE FESTIVAL IS 30, MOĞOLLAR IS 50 YEARS OLD

Following the festival program, the Moğollar concert brought together the audience with film music. Transferring the story of 50 years, the Moğollar made music journey to the audience with the visuals of the period. In addition to the legendary soundtracks such as the Legend of Ağrı Mountain, Selvi Boylum Al Yazmalım, the music group that performed the works of Cem Karaca and Barış Manço, whom they worked with in the past, was watched with applause.

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