{"id":59766,"date":"2017-12-23T12:54:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T12:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=59766"},"modified":"2017-12-23T12:54:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T12:54:32","slug":"turkish-film-to-compete-at-palm-springs-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkish-film-to-compete-at-palm-springs-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish film to compete at Palm Springs festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A Turkish film focusing on the real-life relationship between a Turkish soldier and a Korean orphan during the Korean War will be competing at a film festival in the U.S.<\/h2>\n<p>Director Can Ulkay\u2019s film Ayla will be competing at the 29th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival which will be held between Jan. 4 and 15, according to the film&#8217;s producers on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The movie has been seen by almost five million people over the eight weeks it was in Turkish theaters, the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>The film will be screened three times at the festival and two additional times to students for training purposes, the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 180 films from 77 countries will be shown at the festival.<\/p>\n<p>The film is based on the real-life story of a Turkish soldier, Sgt. Suleyman Dilbirligi, who took five-year-old Eunja Kim under his wing during the Korean War, over 60 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish forces served under UN command during the Korean War between 1950 and 1953 &#8212; 774 Turkish soldiers were martyred in the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, 45 films, which had applied to be nominees at the 90th Academy Awards, will be screened at the festival. Ayla was not shortlisted.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Turkish film focusing on the real-life relationship between a Turkish soldier and a Korean orphan during the Korean War will be competing at a film festival in the U.S. Director Can Ulkay\u2019s film Ayla will be competing at the 29th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival which will be held between Jan. 4 and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":59767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,122,74,895,79,85,163],"tags":[14775,41550],"class_list":["post-59766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-cinema","category-culture","category-life","category-magazine","category-media-news","category-recommendations","tag-academy-awards","tag-korean-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59766","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=59766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}