Tolga Karaçelik

Turkish director Tolga Karaçelik’s “Butterflies” film won the grand jury award in the category of “Best International Motion Picture” at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 27.

The awards of the 22nd Golden Ball Film Festival, which was held between Sept. 14 and 19 last year in the southern province of Adana, were presented at a ceremony held during the weekend in Istanbul. The ceremony was postponed because of the country's current clashes with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). 

Directors Tolga Karaçelik and Mustafa Kara films were the big winners at the Golden Oranges in Antalya amid a new controversy over censorship Director Tolga Karaçelik's "Sarma??k" (Ivy) and Mustafa Kara's "Kalandar So?u?u" (Kalandar Cold) were the big winners of the 52nd Antalya Film Festival, picking up four awards for each.

Verses from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's long poem of the late 18th century, divide director and writer Tolga Karaçelik's sophomore feature "Sarma??k" (Ivy) into three parts: Three distinctive and definitive parts charting a man's journey from possibilities of adventure to delirium.