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Monday, April 9, 2007
6th Annual Boston Turkish Film and Music Festival continues Until May 13, 2007 and invites you to enjoy a rich program as it continues its tradition of highlighting contemporary Turkish cinema and Turkish filmmakers.
The events of the festival takes place at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston University and the Massachusetts College of Art.
Alongside the films, the festival program is extended to include a series of lectures, exhibits and concerts under the theme "Mevlana and Sufism", as 2007 has been declared by UNESCO the year of Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi, celebrating the 800th anniversary of his birth.
The festival has opened with the film "Ice Cream, I Scream" (Dondurmam Gaymak), Official Submission of Turkey for the 79th Academy Awards and the winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Award in the HBO/U.S. Comedy Arts Festival.
The festival closes on May 13th with the performance of Collage Dance Ensemble with their latest choreography, "Anatolia".
On April 1st, 2007, the first "Boston Turkish Film Festival Award for Excellence in Turkish Cinema" was presented to filmmaker Zeki Demirkubuz for his contributions to Turkish Cinema. Zeki Demirkubuz, called "a genius of cinema" and "one of world's few convincing existential filmmakers" by Peter Keough of Boston Phoenix, was also present at the North America premiere of his latest film, Destiny (Kader). Discussion and reception followed the screening.
There are 11 films in the festival program, including the North America premieres of Zeki Demirkubuz's "Destiny" and Cem Yilmaz's "The Magician". As a tribute to the legendary director Atif Yilmaz who passed away last year, his last film "Borrowed Bride" will be screened as the closing event of the film program.
Three films in the program -- Climates, Destiny, The Magician -- are currently in competition in the 26th Istanbul Film Festival.
Festival concerts with acclaimed musicians, such as kemence virtuoso Neva Ozgen and bansuri master Deepak Ram and their ensemble, performing "Seher: Sufi Music from Turkey and India -- A Celebration of Rumi" will take place on April 15th at the TSAI Center, Boston University, and the legendary clarinet master Husnu Senlendirici with the New York Gypsy All-Stars Band will perform on April 22nd at the Massachusetts College of Art.
Other events of the program are exhibitions, such as the "Glittering Gold: Illumination in Islamic Art" at the Museum of Fine Arts, including works of tezhip (illumination) artist Gulhis Diptas, on May 11th; lectures such as "Troy: New Reflections on an Old Site" by Dr. Donald Easton at Boston University on April 11th ; a reading from "The Sultan's Seal", named one of the top ten first novels of 2007, by author Jenny White, also talking about her experiences in Turkey, on April 17th; another lecture by cartoonist Salih Memecan at Boston University is on April 24th; and a workshop on long necked lutes presented by acclaimed Ebru artist and musician Feridun Ozgoren at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on May 7th.
As the pre-festival events, Prof. Crawford Greenewalt, Jr. gave an informative lecture on "Highlights of Archeological Fieldwork at Sardis, 2002-2006" at Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard University; Esin Atil and Walter Denny made excellent presentations alongside a performance by Feridun Ozgoren and Cambridge Musiki Cemiyeti as a part of the program, "The Arts of Sufism", at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
For many more detailed informations and a wealth of pictures, visit http://www.BostonTurkishFilmFestival.org
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