Born in 1984 in Ankara, Emre has been committed to storytelling and visual arts since childhood. After a BA in Law and a yearlong experience as a legal intern, he quits. In 2012, he was accepted to Ma Filmmaking department at the London Film School. After directing two narrative short films and practiced photography, he graduated in 2014 with his thesis film “The Translator” which was screened in more than 200 film festivals worldwide such as Sarajevo, Premier Plans, Palm Springs, Montreal, won 16 awards and was nominated for the Best Short Film for the 28th European Film Awards. He is an alumnus of Sarajevo Talents and a member of Efa.
On the occasion of “Anatolian Leopard” screening at Thessaloniki Film Festival, we speak with him about broken bulbs, the timeline of the film, Fikret and the political metaphors presented in the story, the zoo, and many other topics.
First question, because it really annoyed me during the film,...
On the occasion of “Anatolian Leopard” screening at Thessaloniki Film Festival, we speak with him about broken bulbs, the timeline of the film, Fikret and the political metaphors presented in the story, the zoo, and many other topics.
First question, because it really annoyed me during the film,...
- 11/13/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Having a loser as a protagonist is not exactly unusual in cinema. What would happen though, if you combined such a character with a zoo that is about to be demolished, an animal on the brink of extinction and a crime? Emre Kayis gives the answer to this question in a film that also functions as a metaphor on a number of levels.
“Anatolian Leopard” is screening at the 62nd Thessaloniki International Film Festival
The aforementioned loser is Fikret, the manager of a failing zoo in Ankara, with his life becoming evident in one of the initial scenes, where the parking spot reserved for the director of the organization, is occupied by anyone but him, who has to park far away from his office and walk in the mud to reach it. The zoo is on the brink of collapse, with the employees leaving one after the other, while a...
“Anatolian Leopard” is screening at the 62nd Thessaloniki International Film Festival
The aforementioned loser is Fikret, the manager of a failing zoo in Ankara, with his life becoming evident in one of the initial scenes, where the parking spot reserved for the director of the organization, is occupied by anyone but him, who has to park far away from his office and walk in the mud to reach it. The zoo is on the brink of collapse, with the employees leaving one after the other, while a...
- 11/11/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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 the best film awards respectively in the international and national competitions at Turkey’s 58th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival which wrapped Saturday.
“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...
“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...
- 10/10/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Turkey’s Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, which historically has always been the country’s prime local cinema catalyst, stands as testimony that despite impediments due to the pandemic and the country’s economy Turkish filmmakers are in fine fettle.
“At the start of the year people said: ‘You will not be able to assemble 10 [Turkish] films due to the pandemic,’” because “they thought nothing was getting made,” says Antalya fest chief Ahmet Boyacıoğlu.
Instead, programmers for the event’s upcoming 58th edition that will run Oct. 2-9 in the sprawling resort city on Turkey’s Southern coast, received 44 submissions for the national competition that is at its core. And the 10 features they’ve selected rep “the strongest selection at Antalya in maybe the past 10 years,” he says.
Antalya’s artistic director Başak Emre points out that with the Turkish lira hitting all-time lows against Western currencies and waning local government...
“At the start of the year people said: ‘You will not be able to assemble 10 [Turkish] films due to the pandemic,’” because “they thought nothing was getting made,” says Antalya fest chief Ahmet Boyacıoğlu.
Instead, programmers for the event’s upcoming 58th edition that will run Oct. 2-9 in the sprawling resort city on Turkey’s Southern coast, received 44 submissions for the national competition that is at its core. And the 10 features they’ve selected rep “the strongest selection at Antalya in maybe the past 10 years,” he says.
Antalya’s artistic director Başak Emre points out that with the Turkish lira hitting all-time lows against Western currencies and waning local government...
- 10/2/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The Toronto International Film Festival, the International Federation of Film Critics (Fipresci)[/link] and the Network for the Promotion of Asia Pacific Cinema (Netpac)[/link] have named their award winners for work screened at TIFF 2021.
“We are thrilled to announce that Anatolian Leopard has received the 2021 Fipresci Jury Award,” said Diana Sanchez, senior director, film, TIFF. “Every year we are amazed at the creativity and audaciousness of the filmmakers in our line-up. Anatolian Leopard, directed by Emre Kayiş is no exception.”
This year’s Fipresci jury members included Andrew Kendall, Esin Kücüktepepinar, Caspar Salmon, Gilbert Seah[/link], and Teresa Vena.
The 2021 Fipresci jury released a statement that called its winner “a perfectly controlled comedy of manners, Anatolian Leopard takes the temperature of a country torn between the old ways and modernity – not to say between honor and corruption – while offering up a melancholy portrait of a man at odds with his surroundings. Emre...
“We are thrilled to announce that Anatolian Leopard has received the 2021 Fipresci Jury Award,” said Diana Sanchez, senior director, film, TIFF. “Every year we are amazed at the creativity and audaciousness of the filmmakers in our line-up. Anatolian Leopard, directed by Emre Kayiş is no exception.”
This year’s Fipresci jury members included Andrew Kendall, Esin Kücüktepepinar, Caspar Salmon, Gilbert Seah[/link], and Teresa Vena.
The 2021 Fipresci jury released a statement that called its winner “a perfectly controlled comedy of manners, Anatolian Leopard takes the temperature of a country torn between the old ways and modernity – not to say between honor and corruption – while offering up a melancholy portrait of a man at odds with his surroundings. Emre...
- 9/18/2021
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
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