The Istanbul International Meeting of Cinema & History
“Breaking the Boundaries”
in its 10th year
Regarded as one of the top important cultural events in Turkey’s and globe’s arts and cultures calender, TÜRSAK’s traditional annual Istanbul International Meeting of Cinema & History celebrates its 10th year in 2007, taking a powerful and enlightening theme that provides the opportunity to interpret the issues of the contemporary global socio-cultural agenda under a new light and to comment on the long-lasting problems of mankind from a unique angle, to its center: “BREAKING the BOUNDARIES”.
“Breaking the Boundaries” expands itself to embrace all demands uttered and struggles fought in the name of liberty, which influenced the individual and the social sphere so far along with the ideal of an unrestricted freedom of thought and speech. As a thematic film festival that brings the cinema lovers together with films of historical perspective and a intellectually challenging vision, TÜRSAK’s annual Istanbul International Meeting of Cinema History, under the light of “Breaking the Boundaries” will call the film lovers be a part of an intellectual agenda encircled by the unique vision of the seventh art.
Presenting a rich selection of distinguished titles from across the world the 10th Istanbul International Meeting of Cinema & History will feature, asides the title section “BREAKING THE BOUNDARIES”, sections such as “From World Festivals”, “Award-Winners” and the traditional zone of the festival “Human Rights”..
Also to be featured in the Istanbul International Meeting of Cinema & History is the “Discoveries” section that is designed to cover and showcase the latest offerings from young talents of cinema.
Supported by the Ministry of Culture & Tourism of the Republic of Turkey and Beyoðlu Municipality and sponsored by Metro Group and Digiturk, the festival will meet film lovers in Beyoðlu – Beyoðlu Cinemas, Beyoðlu Alkazar Cinemas and the French Institute venues.
The 10th International Istanbul Meeting of Cinema & History Opening curtains with Sidney Lumet’s latest film “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead”
The 10th edition of the Istanbul International Meeting of Cinema & History, to be realized from 14 to 20 December, 2007, will open its curtains with master director Sidney Lumet’s latest film “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead”.
1924 born master director who has made about 50 films including “Serpico”, “Dog Day Afternoon”, “Murder on the Orient Express” and “Prince of the City” in his illustrious career Sidney Lumet assembles the Oscar winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman and Oscar nominated actor Ethan Hawke along with Oscar winning actress Marisa Tomei and perennial Albert Finney in the extraordinary thriller “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead”.
In the absorbing story of “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead” Philip Seymour Hoffman gives life to Andy, an over-extended broker who lures his younger brother Hank (Ethan Hawke), into a larcenous scheme. The pair will rob a suburban mom-and-pop jewelry store that appears to be the quintessential easy target. The sole problem turns out to be that, the store owners are Andy and Hank's actual mother and father… When the heist goes awry, with Andy and Hank’s mother surviving the clamor with fatal wounds and their new accomplice laying dead, Andy and Hank, along with Andy’s trophy wife Gina, will have to face the consequences of their unsuccessful attempt while the family patriarch is hunting on for them completely unaware that the criminals he look for are his own sons.
A powerful drama on the fringes of human ambition and helplessness, “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead” is defined as a classic heist-gone-wrong film in the very tradition of Stanley Kubrick’s “The Killing” and Lumet’s own “The Anderson Tapes”, which reminds the audience that the humankind has the most to fear from those they hold dear.