{"id":276442,"date":"2023-09-29T21:55:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T18:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/?p=276442"},"modified":"2023-09-29T21:55:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T18:55:20","slug":"golden-orange-film-festival-canceled-for-the-first-time-in-its-60-year-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/golden-orange-film-festival-canceled-for-the-first-time-in-its-60-year-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The Golden Orange Film Festival was canceled for the first time in its 60-year history!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 60th Golden Orange Film Festival was canceled after a crisis over the exclusion of the documentary Law and Order from the film selection.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/festival-baskani-can-guvenligimiz-yok-dedi-kanun-hukmu-altin-portakaldan-tekrar-cikarildi\/\">Festival president says \u2018we don't have security of life\u2019, the provision was removed from the Golden Orange again!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Antalya Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Muhittin B\u00f6cek stated, \u201cThe duties of the festival director, art director and the entire artistic team they formed, which caused a big confusion with their own decision, have been terminated as of now.\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/2-colleagues-lost-goncagul-sunar-revolts\/\">Goncag\u00fcl Sunar, who lost 2 colleagues, rebelled<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The festival has been canceled due to the crisis that started when the documentary Kanun H\u00fckm\u00fc, which tells the story of two people who were dismissed from their jobs by decrees with the force of law (KHK), was excluded from the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/judiciary-upholds-can-atalays-sentence-erkan-bastan-made-a-very-harsh-statement-and-call\/\">Court of Cassation upheld Can Atalay's sentence, Erkan Ba\u015f made a very harsh statement and call!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Antalya Metropolitan Mayor Muhittin B\u00f6cek announced the cancellation of the festival with a statement on the social media platform X.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"tr\">Dear moviegoers, dear fellow countrymen;<\/p>\n<p>Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, which we have returned to its essence as Antalya Metropolitan Municipality, has defied the years, is one of the most important brands of our Antalya and our country and we plan to hold between October 7-14... <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rMMC68ljBa\">pic.twitter.com\/rMMC68ljBa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>- Muhittin B\u00f6cek (@BocekMuhittin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BocekMuhittin\/status\/1707813951034003914?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 29, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cFESTIVAL DIRECTOR MISMANAGED THE PROCESS\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the video he shared in his message, B\u00f6cek emphasized that the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival is one of the most important brands not only of Antalya but also of Turkey in the international arena and noted the following:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this point, as the metropolitan municipality, I will never allow our festival, which has stood the test of time, to be used as a material in the hands of some people and the rights of cinema workers to be defeated. Since the issue concerns the whole country, Antalya, all cinema lovers and all cinema workers, our municipality, which is the host of the issue, had to take a decision. It is the festival director and the artistic team who have been selected and are responsible for determining the content in order to make the festival artistically strong and exemplary for cinema. It has been determined that the festival director and the entire artistic team mismanaged the process and failed to manage the crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/hearing-the-name-of-ozkan-ugurun-cem-yilmaz-could-not-hold-back-his-tears\/\">Cem Y\u0131lmaz could not hold back his tears when he heard \u00d6zkan U\u011fur's name<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>B\u00f6cek stated that as someone who had made efforts to return the festival to its essence and to reintroduce the national category to the festival, he did not accept what happened.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THEIR DUTIES TERMINATED<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pointing out that the Golden Orange Film Festival is above politics, B\u00f6cek announced that the entire artistic team of the festival was dismissed:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one can be in any doubt that I will not make our festival a material for anyone's political ambitions. I also return all the accusations attributed to me and our Municipality over the film to their real interlocutors. For the reasons I have just explained, the duties of the festival director, art director and the entire art team they have formed, which caused a great confusion with their own decision, have been terminated as of now. I invite all our artists, cinema workers and moviegoers to protect our festival. I regret to inform all moviegoers that I have canceled our Festival, which we had planned to hold between October 7-14, due to this process that was created and created outside of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018RULE OF LAW\u2019 CRISIS AT THE FESTIVAL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2018The documentary \u2019Kanun H\u00fckm\u00fc\u201c was excluded from the 60th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival's National Documentary Competition on the grounds that \u201da judicial process is ongoing against a person in the film\".<\/p>\n<p>Director Nejla Demirci described the decision against the documentary as \u201ccensorship\u201d. All 20 jury members of the festival announced that they would step down if the documentary was not reinstated in the selection.<\/p>\n<p>The directors and producers of 27 films in the National Feature Film Competition, National Documentary Film Competition and National Short Film Competition had also announced their decision to withdraw their films from the festival.<\/p>\n<p>While there was intense reaction to the decision, the Golden Orange Film Festival could not withstand the pressure and backed down. In a statement made on the festival's social media X account, it was announced that the documentary \u2018Kanun H\u00fckm\u00fc\u2019 was decided to be taken back to the competition selection, citing the documentation that \u201cthe judicial process against the person in the film is not ongoing\u201d as the reason.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the announcement of the film's withdrawal, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced its withdrawal from the festival. Later, the Ministry of Youth and Sports also withdrew its support from the festival.<\/p>\n<p>Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival Director Ahmet Boyac\u0131o\u011flu later announced that the documentary had been removed from the selection again. \u201cIt is not possible for us to accept being described as a supporter of any terrorist organization,\u201d Boyac\u0131o\u011flu said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, Demet Akbag, the jury president of the Golden Orange Film Festival, announced her resignation.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kanun H\u00fckm\u00fc belgeselinin film se\u00e7kisinden \u00e7\u0131kar\u0131lmas\u0131yla kriz ya\u015fanan 60. Alt\u0131n Portakal Film Festivali iptal edildi. Festival ba\u015fkan\u0131 \u2018can g\u00fcvenli\u011fimiz yok\u2019 dedi, Kanun H\u00fckm\u00fc Alt\u0131n Portakal\u2019dan tekrar \u00e7\u0131kar\u0131ld\u0131! Antalya B\u00fcy\u00fck\u015fehir Belediye Ba\u015fkan\u0131 Muhittin B\u00f6cek, &#8220;Kendi karar\u0131yla b\u00fcy\u00fck bir karma\u015faya neden olan festival y\u00f6netmeninin, sanat y\u00f6netmeninin ve olu\u015fturduklar\u0131 t\u00fcm sanat ekibinin g\u00f6revlerine \u015fu an itibari ile son [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":277909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-276442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kultur-sanat"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}