16th London Turkish Film Festival
The 16th London Turkish Film Festival is a film festival held in London, England which ran from November 4 to 18, 2010. During the course of the festival seventeen feature films and two programmes of shorts were presented at the Apollo Theatre and the Rio Cinema.
The festival began with an opening gala at the Empire, Leicester Square, attended by Turkish Ambassador to London Ünal Çeviköz, Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism official Abdurrahman Çelik, actor Şener Şen, film and theater star Genco Erkal and director Çağan Irmak, at which the Golden Wings awards for Lifetime Achievement and Digiturk Digital Distribution were presented and Sleeping Princess directed by Çağan Irmak received its world premiere.Awards
- Golden Wings Lifetime Achievement Award: Şener Şen
- Golden Wings Digiturk Digital Distribution Award: Honey directed by Semih Kaplanoğlu
Programmes
Opening Film
- Sleeping Princess directed by Çağan Irmak
Golden Wings Digiturk Digital Distribution Competition
Five Turkish films made in the preceding year were selected to compete in the festival’s feature film competition.Competition Jury