KısaKes Film Festival Awards Presented

The awards of the KısaKes Film Festival, held with the contribution of Bahçeşehir University, have been presented. A BAU Special Award was also given at the International Short Film Festival, held for the third time on 25-30 September at the historic Ortaköy Feriye Cinema.

Attracting great interest this year, the festival welcomed international cinema professionals and young artists at Ortaköy Feriye Cinema with many different workshops, special thematic screenings, talks and networking events, and gave participants the pleasure of watching films at Feriye again after a long break. The festival, where names such as İlker Canikligil, Gökhan Tiryaki, Bronwyn Cornelius, Sydney Levine and Pierre Lapeyrade met film lovers, ended on the evening of 29 September with a spectacular award ceremony at Zorlu PSM, hosted by Can Çelikay and featuring The Away Days, one of the most popular bands of recent times. After the award ceremony, Berlin Film Festival DJs Chika&SoulMind gave film lovers an unforgettable night with their extraordinary performance!

At the award ceremony, the best short films selected from among student films and the competitors whose projects were supported under the Pitching Platform, held in partnership with the Sarajevo Film Festival with this year's theme of 'The Living City,' received their awards. In addition, Filmloverss, the festival's media sponsor this year, will provide media support to a project it selected from the Pitching Platform.

Here are this year's winners:

Best Fiction Award: 128 / Onur Atalay Şenol | Türkiye

BAU Special Award and Audience Special Award: Fingermen / Ivan Shokha | Ukraine

Crew Special Award: Call of Cuteness / Brenda Lien | Germany

Special Jury Award: Hunted / Yen-Hsun Chen | Taiwan

Best Animation Award: Retouch / Yi-shan, Wang - Yu-ru, Lin - Yi-Hsuan, Lee - Xiao-Han - Ya-Yuan, Hsu | Taiwan

Honorable Mention: On Board! / Charline Parisot | France

Pitching Platform No Age Limit Category Winners:

Muzaffer / Kartal Gür

Beyaz Bir Gece / Özgür Can Uzunyaşa

Pitching Platform University Student Projects Category Winners:

Fear / Mirjana Galic

Beyhude / Arman Ertürün