Istanbul Festival Jury of the Golden Tulip Competition

Dagur Kari will be taking part in the jury of the Golden Tulip Competition of the 26th International İstanbul Film Festival; not Bent Hammer as previously announced. We apologise for the mistake.

The 26th International İstanbul Film Festival Golden Tulip Jury will be presided over by the master director who won the first ever Golden Tulip Award in 1985 with “1984”: Michael Radford. After 26 years, Radford will be honouring the İstanbul Film Festival.
The jury will also include Udo Kier (the cult actor of films such as “Manderlay”, “Blade”, “Armageddon”, “My Own Private Idaho”), Dagur Kari, the Icelandic director of "Noi Albinoi" and "Dark Horse"; Lone Scherfig, director of one of the most popular films of past festivals, “Italian for Beginners”; Katriel Schory, the director of the Israel Film Fund; and two Turkish jurors, director Zeki Demirkubuz and actress Tilbe Saran.

There are 15 nominees in the International Competition of the 26th International İstanbul Film Festival – all themed around the world of “arts and the artist” or are literary adaptations.

• La stella che non c’è / The Missing Star by Gianni Amelio
• Candy by Neil Armfield
• Les amitiés maléfiques / Poison Friends by Emmanuel Bourdieu
• Delirious by Tom DiCillo
• Cashback by Sean Ellis
• Lady Chatterley by Pascale Ferran
• Niwe Mung / Half Moon by Bahman Ghobadi
• The Hottest State by Ethan Hawke
• Factory Girl by George Hickenlooper
• The History Boys by Nicholas Hytner
• The King and the Clown by Jun-ik Lee
• Beynelmilel / International by Sırrı Sureyya Onder - Muharrem Gulmez
• Kunsten at græde I kor / The Art of Crying by Peter Schønau Fog
• Reprise by Joachim Trier
• Cenneti Beklerken / Waiting for Heaven by Dervis Zaim