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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 15th Boston Turkish Film Festival will kick off on March 17 with Tolga Karaçelik's "Sarma??k" (Ivy). The event will screen 21 Turkish films until April 23. 

Most of the films in the program are award-winners of international film festivals, and many of them will have their North America or U.S. premieres at the festival. 

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.

The 22nd Golden Boll Film Festival, organized in the southern Turkish province of Adana, ended on Sept. 19. The Best Film Award of the festival went to Emin Alper?s ?Abluka? (Frenzy). 

The film also won the Best Director of Arts Award, Best Fiction, the Promising Actor Award and the Adana Audience Award.