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DVD release in USA.. DVD of Uzak (Distant)
has been released by New Yorker
Films in USA.. You may order it from Amazon.com.. For more info, please go to DVD & Book page.. March 22 , 2005 ............................................................................................................................................. BBC World Cinema Award 2005 BBC Four announces the
nominations for the World Cinema Award 2005. Uzak has been selected for
the shortlist of BBC World Cinema Award following a poll of the United
Kingdom’s leading film critics, film school heads and exhibitors.... The nominated films
are: About
UZAK after the nominations: To
read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/cinema/film_award/shortlist/index.shtml ............................................................................................................................................. Indiewire's 2004 Foreign-Language Film Poll This year's foreign
film "academy" consisted of a total of 31 critics, programmers,
and journalists from around the U.S.. ............................................................................................................................................. Time Out's Films of the Year 2004 The Time Out London
critics pick their three favourite films of 2004. Here are the results: ............................................................................................................................................. Book of UZAK has been published.. The UZAK book (Distant) has been published by Norgunk Yayincilik in Turkish. For more info please visit DVD&Book page.
December 24, 2004 ............................................................................................................................................. Uzak is opening in Korea.. Uzak is opening in Korea on 5th of November 2004 by the Korean company Moon Film Korea.. A photo exhibition of N.B.Ceylan were held at the preview and Moon Film is also preparing for the big scale photo-exhibition, with pictures sized 350cmx100cm, which will be held in Seoul and the other local cities April of next year.. For the reviews of the
film in the Korean media, please go to here..
November 4, 2004 ............................................................................................................................................. Uzak DVD release in England.. Uzak DVD has been released by Artificial Eye on September 27, 2004.. You may order it from Amazon.co.uk.. For more info, please
go to DVD & Book page.
August 27, 2004 .............................................................................................................................................
UZAK has been selected as one of the Ten Best Turkish Films of all times. The Ten Best Turkish Films were determined by a poll by the Ankara Cinema Association, starting with the 1964 production, Dry Summer by Metin Erksan, and leading up to Nuri Bilge Ceylan's award-winning 2003 release, Uzak. Here is the list : 2004 ............................................................................................................................................. Italian Release .. After having good results in the first week of the Italian release, the Italian distributor Lady Film decided to increase the number of copies from 14 to 18 for the second week... For the reviews of the film in the Italian media, please go to press page.. June 31 , 2004 ............................................................................................................................................. Uzak is opening all over Italy at 14 screens on 25th June by the Italian company Lady Film.. The film has been dubbed into italian..
June 9 , 2004 ............................................................................................................................................. United Kingdom Release.. Uzak is opening in UK today by Artificial Eye.. For the reviews and interviews in the media in UK, go to press page..
May 28 , 2004 ............................................................................................................................................. Radio 'France Culture' Awards.. The Radio 'France Culture' give awards every year to one Foreign Film and one French Film which is distributed in France. This year the jury decided
to give the prizes to UZAK by Nuri Bilge Ceylan in the Foreign Film catagory
and to RAJA by Jacques Doillon in the French Film catagory. The awards had been
presented to the directors in a coktail party held at the Majestic Hotel
during Cannes Film Festival on 19th of May. ............................................................................................................................................. Cannes Short Film Jury.. Director of Uzak, Nuri Bilge Ceylan has been invited to be a member of the Short Film and Cinefondation Jury of 57th Cannes Film Festival 2004.
Jury members of Short Film and Cinefondation : Nikita MIKHALKOV,
President (Director – Russia) ............................................................................................................................................. Singapore Awards.. The Silver Screen awards
of the 17th Singapore
International Film Festival have been announced. Uzak (Distant) have
been awarded Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor (Mehmet Emin Toprak)
by the international jury. Nobody from the film
was able to attend the festival and ceremony to receive the awards. ............................................................................................................................................. DVD of UZAK The DVD of UZAK (Distant)
has been released by Palermo
in Turkey
............................................................................................................................................. French Release at 12th week.. French Release of Uzak
has just closed the 12th week with 130,000 admissions. The film is still
in Le St Andre des Arts in Saint Michel, Paris. ............................................................................................................................................. Cover story.. Uzak is on the cover of some international film magazines. Here are some of them:
March 21, 2004 ............................................................................................................................................. UZAK is opening in USA “Uzak- Distant” will
open in New York on March 12, 2004 at Cinema Village, 22 East 12th Street,
followed by a national release.
March 12, 2004 .............................................................................................................................................
The awards of the International
Film Festival of Mexico City have been announced last night at a ceremony
held at the Postal Palace of the City of Mexico. Uzak (Distant) has been
awarded Best Director and Best Cinematography by the international jury
headed by the director Mike Figgis. Director's sister Emine
Ceylan attended the festival and the ceremony to receive the awards. .............................................................................................................................................
UZAK, the film by Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, has won the Premio Trieste 2004 for best film, awarded for a feature film screened at the 15th edition of Trieste Film Festival, promoted by the Associazione Alpe Adria Cinema under the artistic direction of Annamaria Percavassi. The awarding of the prize was this year entrusted to an international jury comprising Luciana Castellina, a member of parliament and journalist and former president of Italia Cinema; Michel Demopoulos, director of the International Festival of Salonika; Fabrizio Grosoli, critic and member of the selection committee at the Venice Film Festival and producer for Domenico Procacci; Martin Schweighofer, director general of the Austrian Film Commission; Petr Zelenka, Czech director and winner of the last edition of Alpe Adria Cinema. As the jury has stressed, the Premio Trieste 2004 has been awarded to UZAK “for the poetic gaze it throws over a social situation without hope, and for the masterly manner in which it uses time and space to explore in an extraordinary way the meanderings of the inner consciousness of the two protagonists”. The Jury’s special mention goes to Rezervni Deli (Spare parts) by Slovene director Damjan Kozole. The prize-giving ceremony
took place on Thursday 22nd January, the closing day of the 15th edition
of Alpe Adria Cinema, at 7 p.m. in the Sala Excelsior. .............................................................................................................................................
Uzak is opening all over France at 50 cinemas today by the French company Pyramide Distribution. Next week 10 more prints will be added.. The French media showed a wide interest in the film. For reviews and interviews in French media, go to press page..
January 14, 2004 ............................................................................................................................................. Uzak is opening in Spain.. UZAK is opening in Spain today by Golem Distribution, Spain.. For Spanish web site of Uzak, please visit here.. For reviews and interviews in Spanish media, go to press page..
December 31, 2003 ............................................................................................................................................. . Black
Nights Film Festival has ended with a closing ceremony last night.
The festival has no competition or official awards, but they have special
awards. Film Clubs gave an award to Russian film Andrei Zvjagintsev's "Return".. Another Special Prize went to Chinese film "Together" by Chen Kaige.. The Audience Award went to Finnish "Upswing" by Johanna Vuoksenmaa. Nobody from "Uzak"
team was able to attend the festival. .............................................................................................................................................
It has been officially announced that Uzak has been nominated in the Best European Director Catagory of European Film Awards 2003 (FELIX). The winner will be announced during the Awards Ceremony at the Arena in Berlin on December 6, 2003. Below is the complete
list of nominations in European Director Catagory: .............................................................................................................................................
Some more awards to
Uzak in 25th Mediterranean Film Festival
of Montpellier. Uzak has been awarded with Golden Antigone (€6,000
to the director and €24,000 to the French distributor of the film, Pyramide,
for the release of the film) and Critics' Award (€2,000 to the director). Mr. Ceylan could not
attend the festival and ceremony. The Turkish director Devrim Alpoge whose
film was also screened in the festival have received Mr.Ceylan's prizes
on behalf of him in the ceremony held on the 1st of November, 2003. .............................................................................................................................................
The 39th Chicago International Film Festival, which ran from October 2-16, has announced its winners. The Gold Hugo is awarded to: Jafar Panahi’s CRIMSON GOLD (Iran) for “its compelling portrait of a man inexorably destroyed by social pressures.” The Silver Hugo is awarded to: Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s DISTANT (Turkey) for “its intense and elegant depiction of overwhelming loneliness.” Awards
: Mr. Ceylan did not attend
the festival. .............................................................................................................................................
The awards of the Mid
East Film Festival have been announced last night at a ceremony held
in Beirut. Uzak (Distant) has been awarded Best Film and Best Screenplay.
Turkish Ambassador in
Beirut attended the ceremony to receive the awards. .............................................................................................................................................
Uzak has been selected
one of the '5 Best Films of 40 years' of Antalya
Film Festival. The five films has been selected by the votes of 100
Turkish film professionals. Here is the five best films of 40 years of
the festival: The awards have been
presented to the directors at the opening ceremony of the 40th Antalya
Film Festival last night. .............................................................................................................................................
Manaki Brothers is the oldest film festival in the world evaluating the DoP’s (Director of Photography) contribution to the film. The films in the competition compete for their cinematographic values. N.B.Ceylan as a DoP
of the film UZAK has been awarded with Special Jury Prize by the international
jury last night. The Golden Camera Award went to DoP Christopher Doyle
with the Film HERO by Zhang Yimou. .............................................................................................................................................
Turkish release has
reached to 60,000 admissions with 5 copies in Turkey.. ............................................................................................................................................. Turkey’s official Oscar entry.. It has been announced
that Uzak (Distant) has been selected as the Turkey's official Oscar entry
in this year's Oscar race in the Foreign Film category. The final nominations
will be announced on 27th January 2004. .............................................................................................................................................
Fipresci Grand Prix is granted by the votes of international critics, who have freely chosen a film from all over the world released between August 2002 and July 2003.
This year, 160 members of the FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics) from all over the world gave their votes freely for the film they prefer. And the votes have been counted with the outcome that the Grand Prix FIPRESCI for Best Film of the Year goes to the Turkish movie Uzak, by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. This Prize, created in 1999 by FIPRESCI and San Sebastian Film Festival with a view to jointly promoting and encouraging the most daring, original and personal cinema, has become one of the most prestigious on the calendar. The prize has been presented to the director Nuri Bilge Ceylan at the opening gala of 51st San Sebastian Film Festival, Spain, on September 18, 2003.
September 18, 2003 ..............................................................................................................................................
Uzak will be presented
at the following US festivals in the coming days: .............................................................................................................................................
A retrospective of all
Nuri Bilge Ceylan films (Uzak, Clouds of May and Kasaba) will be presented
at Toronto
International Film Festival (Canada) on Sept 4-13, 2003, Ljubljana
Film Festival (Slovenia) on Nov 7-24, 2003 and One
Take Film Festival (Zagreb, Croatia) on Nov 14-16, 2003. .............................................................................................................................................
" The anticipated Awards Night of the 5th Cinemanila International Film Festival was held August 21, 2003 at the Onstage Greenbelt, Manila. The International Jury was composed of Aruna Vasudev (Chair) from India who is the founder and chief editor of Cinemaya; film critic and producer Scott Rosenberg(USA), award-winning Vietnamese filmmaker Dang Nhat Minh, acclaimed Israeli director Dan Wolman, and film critic Gino Dormiendo(Italy). The 5th Cinemanila International Film Festival, founded by Tikoy Aguiluz, featured over 80 films from 30 different countries from August 7-24, 2003 at the Greenbelt cinemas in Manila, Philippines.. " The Director Ceylan was not able to attend the festival.. Awards
: ..............................................................................................................................................
" The 5th Cinefan,
the Cinemaya festival of Asian
cinema proved beyond doubt that there is a sizable audience for alternate
cinema in Delhi.
The Director Ceylan attended the festival for a couple of days to present his film but was not able to stay for the closing ceremony. Here
is the all Cinefan awards : ..............................................................................................................................................
Nuri Bilge Ceylan's latest film 'Uzak' won the Grand Jury Prize at the 56th Cannes Film Festival. As well, its two main actors Muzaffer Ozdemir and Mehmet Emin Toprak jointly won the Best Actor Award, an honor that goes posthumously to Toprak, Ceylan's cousin, who died in a car accident the day after learning ''Uzak'' had been selected for Cannes. He dedicated his prize to fellow Turkish director Yilmaz Guney who won the Palme in 1982. "He died in Paris," Ceylan said, "in suffering, never to see his country again."
May 25 , 2003 ..............................................................................................................................................
Istanbul Film Festival has ended with an Award Ceremony held on April 26, 2003. In the National Competition UZAK have been awarded Best Film and Best Director. Fibresci Jury has selected UZAK as the Best Turkish Film as well. Director Nuri Bilge
Ceylan donated about 3000.Euros of the money award that came with the
prize to the two young directors of a short film he liked last year, Ozgur
Dogan and Orhan Eskikoy from Ankara. ..............................................................................................................................................
The Cannes Film Festival is arguably the most famous film festival in the world. The mere mention of Cannes conjures up images of the blinding flashes of a million paparazzi cameras, red carpets, palm trees, and of course, celebrity parties. For two weeks a year, Cannes plays host to most of the international film industry, as filmmakers from all corners of the globe descend on the Croisette.
Here is the complete
list of the competition films : And here is the jury: The Jury will announce
the Palme d'Or and the 2003 Awards during the closing ceremony of the
Festival on May 25th. ..............................................................................................................................................
Turkish
Film Critics Association (SIYAD) announced
their awards for Turkish Cinema 2002 at
a ceremony held at Emek Movie Theatre, İstanbul, by the votes of 38 Turkish
Film Critics. ..............................................................................................................................................
One
of the main actors of UZAK, Mehmet Emin Toprak, lost his life after a
traffic accident in his home town, Yenice. He was the director's cousin
and acting in all of Ceylan's films.
Ankara Film Festival has ended with an Award Ceremony held on December 1, 2002. UZAK have been awarded
6 prizes including Best Film and Best Director.
Antalya Film Festival is the oldest film festival in Turkey. Celebrating its 39th year in 2002. It is sometimes referred to as "the Oscars of the Turkish film industry". UZAK have been the winner
of 5 awards including Best Film, Best Director and Best Script on the
award ceremony held on October 4, 2002.
After
a total of 8 weeks, the shooting of UZAK has been completed today on Feb
18, 2002.. The editing will commence soon and it is expected to take at
least 3-4 months. ..............................................................................................................................................
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'UZAK'
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