{"id":951,"date":"2014-08-26T18:36:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T18:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/?p=951"},"modified":"2014-09-04T18:48:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T18:48:19","slug":"turkish-film-sivas-in-venice-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/turkish-film-sivas-in-venice-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish film \u2018Sivas&#8217; in Venice Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_952\" style=\"width: 592px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/190832_newsdetail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-952\" class=\"wp-image-952 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/190832_newsdetail.jpg\" alt=\"190832_newsdetail\" width=\"582\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/190832_newsdetail.jpg 582w, https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/190832_newsdetail-300x149.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Director Kaan M\u00fcjdeci<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Turkish cinema is experiencing a triumphant 2014. After Nuri Bilge Ceylan&#8217;s Palme d&#8217;Or win at the Cannes Film Festival with \u201cWinter Sleep,\u201d the celebration bells are ringing for two more titles. Only this past weekend, first-time director Erol Minta\u015f&#8217;s \u201cAnnemin \u015eark\u0131s\u0131\u201d (Song of My Mother) <a href=\"http:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/turkish-film-wins-heart-of-sarajevo-award\/\">won the prestigious Heart of Sarajevo award<\/a>, the top prize of the Sarajevo Film Festival, and this week another first-time director, Kaan M\u00fcjdeci, is presenting his debut feature \u201cSivas\u201d at the 71st Venice Film Festival opening on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayszaman.com\/arts-culture_turkish-film-sivas-takes-trip-from-yozgat-to-venice_356830.html\">More on this news<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Guy Lodge reviewed Sivas\u00a0for Variety;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Boy-and-his-dog films usually tug on the heart with puppyish persistence, but there\u2019s little easy sympathy to be found in Turkish director\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_kaan-mujdeci\" style=\"color: #0058a8;\" href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/t\/kaan-mujdeci\/\" data-tag=\"kaan-mujdeci\">Kaan Mujdeci<\/a>\u2019s tough, imposing debut feature \u201c<a id=\"auto-tag_sivas\" style=\"color: #0058a8;\" href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/t\/sivas\/\" data-tag=\"sivas\">Sivas<\/a>\u201d \u2014 and not many cuddly mutts or moppets either. Painting an even more severe picture of the Anatolian steppes than the recent works of Nuri Bilge Ceylan, this sparse story of an 11-year-old problem child and the brawny fighter dog he adopts is distinguished by its muscular technical brio and rich, integral sense of place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is the complete\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2014\/film\/reviews\/venice-film-review-sivas-1201296877\/\">Variety review<\/a> of Sivas from Venice Film Festival<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish cinema is experiencing a triumphant 2014. After Nuri Bilge Ceylan&#8217;s Palme d&#8217;Or win at the Cannes Film Festival with \u201cWinter Sleep,\u201d the celebration bells are ringing for two more titles. Only this past weekend, first-time director Erol Minta\u015f&#8217;s \u201cAnnemin \u015eark\u0131s\u0131\u201d (Song of My Mother) won the prestigious Heart of Sarajevo award, the top prize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[400,401,184,402],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-kaan-mujdeci","tag-sivas","tag-turkish-films","tag-venice-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":998,"href":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions\/998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}