{"id":4059,"date":"2010-02-22T18:36:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T16:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=4059"},"modified":"2022-09-22T17:22:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T14:22:30","slug":"semih-kaplanoglu-won-golden-bear-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/semih-kaplanoglu-won-golden-bear-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Semih Kaplano\u011flu won Golden Bear award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/semih-kaplanoglu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4060\" title=\"Semih Kaplano\u011flu\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/semih-kaplanoglu-279x209.jpg\" alt=\"Semih Kaplano\u011flu\" width=\"279\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/semih-kaplanoglu-279x209.jpg 279w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/semih-kaplanoglu-481x360.jpg 481w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/semih-kaplanoglu.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/><\/a>Turkish filmmaker Semih Kaplano\u011flu\u2019s drama film \u201cBal\u201d (Honey) became the proud recipient of the coveted Golden Bear award at this year\u2019s Berlin International Film Festival, bringing the prestigious title to Turkey for only the second time in the festival\u2019s 60-year history.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHoney\u201d came away with the top prize in a surprise decision that few pundits foresaw.<\/p>\n<p>The jury, led by German director Werner Herzog and including Hollywood actress Renee Zellweger, decided against rewarding the political or shocking and went instead for a minimalist, slow-paced story about a son\u2019s love for his beekeeper father.<\/p>\n<p>Bora Alta\u015f, the 8-year-old who played the central character Yusuf, won over audiences with his touching performance in a film that had no soundtrack and little in the way of plot but resonated with some critics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope to be able to show feelings &#8212; love, emotion and hope, also the pleasure in living &#8212; and hope my films can trigger these emotions too,\u201d director Semih Kaplano\u011flu said of \u201cHoney,\u201d the final installment in his Trilogy of Yusuf, which began in 2007 with \u201cYumurta\u201d (Egg), followed in 2008 by \u201cS\u00fct\u201d (Milk).<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 7)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish filmmaker Semih Kaplano\u011flu\u2019s drama film \u201cBal\u201d (Honey) became the proud recipient of the coveted Golden Bear award at this year\u2019s Berlin International Film Festival, bringing the prestigious title to Turkey for only the second time in the festival\u2019s 60-year history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,80,122,56,1165],"tags":[5149,5145,16458,5150,5148,5151,5154,5153,5147],"class_list":["post-4059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artistry","category-breaking-news","category-cinema","category-events","category-turkey-life","tag-bora-altas","tag-german-director-werner-herzog","tag-hollywood","tag-honey-bora-altas","tag-renee-zellweger","tag-semih-kaplanoglu","tag-semih-kaplanoglu-honey-film","tag-turkish-semih-kaplanoglu","tag-werner-herzog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}