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Taste of Anatolia – Films of Turkey 2022: Cambridge and London venues to jointly
host this year’s programme
Cambridge, 29 October, 2022: The fourth edition of the UK’s only independent
Turkish film festival, Taste of Anatolia – Films from Turkey (TOA), will
commence on 5 November and run until 11 November 2022. For the first time,
screenings for this week-long event will extend from TOA’s home city of
Cambridge to London, as well as continuing online, allowing even more people
across Britain to enjoy new cinema from Türkiye.
Ceviz Ağacı / Silenced Tree
This year’s TOA programme lists 38 star-studded movies. Ten of these are feature-length
films and 28 shorts, with five of the 38 films documentaries. The selection
includes both prominent and upcoming Turkish directors tackling a myriad of
themes, such as anti-war, religiosity, and a heist thriller using a blend of
comic book and live-action drama.
Many of the films will be enjoying their UK premieres, among them the award-winning
Bembeyaz / Pure White, screening at Dalston’s Rio Cinema on 9 November. The film
is the debut feature of Necip Çağan Özdemir. Showing at both the Rio (10/11) and
Cambridge’s Old Divinity School (06/11) is Ceviz Ağacı / Silenced Tree, written,
produced and directed by Faysal Soysal, who will be in attendance. Another
making its UK premiere is critically acclaimed family drama Çatlak / Fractured,
director Fikret Reyhan’s follow-up feature to his award-winning film Yellow Heat.
The film will be screening at Old Divinity School (06/11) and Artlens (08/11),
London.
One of TOA 2022’s headline movies is Klondike, a multiple award-winning
Ukrainian-Turkish production directed by Maryna Er Gorbach. The film centres on
a family in the Donetsk region of Eastern Ukraine whose world is violently
disrupted by the crash of flight MH17 in 2014 and the events that follow. The
film travels to Cambridge’s Arts Picturehouse (08/11) following screenings at
prestigious festivals such as Sundance, and the London, Berlin, and Istanbul
Film Festivals.
Netflix’s hit series ‘The Club’ actor Salih Bademci and Nur Fettahoğlu, who came
to global fame as the haseki (consort) of the Ottoman Sultan in Turkish period
drama ‘Magnificent Century’, are among those starring in the festival’s top
picks.
Other highlights from Taste of Anatolia – Films from Turkey 2022 include:
Tunel / Tunnel (dir. Akın Güngör)
Babamın Öldüğü Gün / The Day My Father Died (dir. Emre Sefer)
Plastik Rüya / Plastic Dream (dir. Merve Bozcu)
Aynı Gecenin Laciverti / Same Night Different Blue (dir. Nuri Cihan Özdoğan)
APP (dir. Hatice Aşkın)
Başımdaki Dünya / The World In My Head (dir. Yalçın Çifçi)
Emeğin Sineması: Karanlıkta Uyananlar Belgeseli / Cinema of Labour: A
Documentary on Those Who Wake up in the Dark (dir. Ebru Özyurt)
After two difficult years due to the coronavirus pandemic, TOA enthusiastically
welcomes back audiences with theatre screenings in diverse venues in and around
two cities. For Cambridge, TOA films will be showing at the Arts Picturehouse,
Old Divinity School in St John’s College, Christ’s College, and Gardiner
Memorial Hall in Burwell Village. TOA screening venues for London are Rio Cinema
in Dalston, and Hackney’s Artlens.
This year’s TOA 2022 festival pass costs just £5, and allows you to watch all
online screenings and all films being shown at Cambridge University colleges.
Festival passes can be purchased from Balık Arts’ online platform www.balikartstv.com.
For all other TOA theatrical screenings, tickets are available direct from the
cinemas.
TOA is organised by film charity Balık Arts, as part of its aim to offer young
people direct experience of all aspects of film making and film festival
management. TOA also hosts “Film Beyond Borders”, a transnational project funded
by Erasmus+ and led by Balık Arts in the UK. This leg of the project will allow
members of youth groups in Italy and Türkiye to travel to the UK to help run the
TOA festival, and to attend event planning workshops.
BRITISH YAŞAM TV
31 Ekim 2022
5th Edition of ‘Taste of Anatolia - Films from Turkey’
FESTIVAL RUNS FROM SATURDAY 4th - FRIDAY 10th NOVEMBER 2023
Launched in 2018 by UK based film charity Balık Arts, ‘Taste of Anatolia – Films
from Turkey’ aims to showcase the rich and varied cultures of Turkey through
film.
This year in November, the festival will present a contemporary mix of short,
fiction, documentary and feature-length films. The films must be produced or co-produced
from Turkey. We do not accept animated films.
The actors Kadir İnanır, Selda Alkor, Cengiz Bozkurt and Aziz Çapkurt are
patrons of the festival in Turkey. They are joined by UK based Çiğdem Aslan,
world renowned singer, and producer Ahmet Baydar. British Patrons of the
festival include the actor Bhasker Patel and Baroness Smith of Newnham.
Our festival this year will be hybrid, consisting of in-person screenings in
Cambridge/Cambridgeshire, Aylesbury/Buckinghamshire, Norwich/Norfolk and London,
alongside streaming from our online film platform Balık Arts TV.
Good luck to all of the film submitters!
Rules & Terms
1. You must have the right to submit the film to the Taste of Anatolia Film
Festival.
2. We accept short, fiction, documentary and feature-length films produced or co-produced
in Turkey. We do not accept animated films.
3. The film’s year of production must be from: 2019
4. All submitted films must contain English language subtitles; additional
languages are also welcomed. Subtitles can only be embedded in the video file.
SRT files are not accepted. If a third language is used we recommend using
Turkish subtitles in addition.
5. If your film has been chosen for the festival you will need to send a final
high-quality version to submissions@balikarts.org.uk. Please do this as soon as
you receive a FilmFreeway notification. Video files must be in H.264 or mp4 for
both the film and trailer if a trailer exists. Recommended resolution is
1920x1080. The minimum requirement is 1280x720.
6. For all submissions on FilmFreeway we will require accompanying materials
such as a poster in jpeg or png format (portrait and landscape), cast & crew
list, synopsis and any other available promotion. Social media handles should
all be listed on the film’s FilmFreeway submission, including accounts for the
film, director, actors and others involved in the film’s production so we are
able to publicise it easily if it is chosen for the festival.
7. If your film is selected for the festival, you must send a high-resolution
vertical headshot of the director, at least 5 stills from the film, a vertical
poster and a trailer if any to: submissions@balikarts.org.uk. Please do this as
soon as you receive a notification.
8. The decision of the programming committee will be final with no appeals
process. Our committee has a small number of people, therefore we cannot give
feedback if your film is not selected for the festival.
9. Please note we are unable to pay any screening fees. Taste of Anatolia is a
non-profit festival which aims to be affordable. Ticket prices are kept to a
minimum as we want great cinema to be accessible to all!
