‘Libertad’ by Clara Roquet Wins International Competition at Antalya Film Festival

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Catalan director Clara Roquet’s teenage female friendship drama “Libertad” and Ferit Karahan’s social drama “Brother’s Keeper,” about Kurdish kids living in fear at a Turkish boarding school, won t…

“Libertad,” a first feature that centers on a bond that forms during a summer in Spain’s Costa Brava between two young women from opposite sides of the tracks, was a recent Cannes Critics’ Week standout that has been making the festival rounds. Pic will soon segue from Antalya to the Rome Film Festival.

“Brother’s Keeper” is based on helmer Karahan’s own experience and follows two friends, Yusef and Memo, at a secluded boarding school for Kurdish boys in the mountains of Eastern Anatolia. When Memo falls mysteriously ill, Yusuf to try to help his friend is forced to struggle through the bureaucratic obstacles put up by the school’s repressive authorities.

“Keeper,” which had its Turkish premiere at Antalya, launched earlier this year from Berlin’s Panorama strand, where it won the section’s Fipresci prize. Besides scoring best film it also won prizes for best screenplay and editing in Antalya. The Turkish competition’s other standout title was “Kerr,” the latest drama by minimalist moviemaker Tayfun Pirselimoğlu in which a man named Can gets caught up in a hellish spiral after witnessing a murder in a small town where he has arrived to attend his father’s funeral.

“Kerr” won the section’s prize for best director and also for its music, plus a nod from Turkish film director’s association.won the best director prize for “Aurora,” her drama about female companionship prompted by an an unwanted pregnancy that launched from Rotterdam. Switzerland’s Claudia Grob won best actress for her role in “The Fam,” which is set in a teenage girls’ residential care home in Geneva.

 

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