Jeremy Colson

Coppola, Emir Kusturica to attend Antalya Film Festival 

 The 44th edition of the Antalya Film Festival will host Francis Ford Coppola and Emir Kusturica as its “Honour Guest"s” within the 3rd International Eurasia Film Festival, the international section of the festival. 
Francis Ford Coppola will pay his first visit to a film festival held in Turkey, attending the Turkey premiere of his feature “Youth Without Youth” adapted from Mircea Eliade’s novel. Coppola’s return to the screen after a long pause, with “the ambitions of a cinema student” tells the story of a professor whose life is drastically changed after an incident during the days prior to World War II.  
The Festival President, Mr Engin Yigitgil, and the Honorary President of the Festival, The Mayor of Antalya, Menderes Turel, will present Coppola the “Honour Award” of the festival on October 24 before the gala screening of “Youth Without Youth”.  
Emir Kusturica, will hail the cinefiles of Antalya at the 3rd International Eurasia Film Festival with his latest film “Promise Me This” (Zavet), once again upturning norms, reason and gravity, this time in the story of a young provincial Serbian boy who  tries to carry out a string of tasks given to him by his about-to-die grandfather.   
Not only will Kusturika be attending the gala screening of his film, he will also be playing the guitar at Antalya with his band “No Smoking Orchestra” at the Opening Ceremony of the 3rd International Eurasia Film Festival to be held on October 20 where he will be given the “Honour Award” of the festival. 
The beautiful French actress Sophie Marceau will also be be at Antalya, this time as the director of “Trivial” (La Disparue De Deauville), her second directorial take. Trivial  ” is one of the films in the Festival's competition line-up.