Izmir Metropolitan Municipality is organizing “Towards Izmir Unesco Literature City: Literature-Cinema Meeting” at Fair Izmir on March 25-11, within the scope of the 19th Izmir Book Fair, which will start at the weekend. President Soyer said, “We are happy to bring the two branches of art together in İzmir, and we aim to commemorate our esteemed writers and directors who are no longer with us.”
Izmir Metropolitan Municipality is organizing “Towards Izmir Unesco Literature City: Literature-Cinema Meeting” within the framework of the 25th Izmir Book Fair, which will start at the weekend. Films adapted from works of literature will be screened in our cinema, and interviews will be held with the participation of writers, directors and critics at the event to be held in cooperation with TÜYAP, İZFAŞ and the Intercultural Art Association, at the Fair İzmir in Gaziemir between 11-19 March. Mayor of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Tunç Soyer“We are happy to bring the two branches of art together in İzmir, and we aim to commemorate our esteemed writers and directors who are no longer with us,” he said. Within the scope of the “Literature-Cinema Meeting”, this year, in addition to Orhan Kemal, Rıfat Ilgaz and Haldun Taner, two writers from İzmir, Attila İlhan and Necati Cumalı, and the master directors of our cinema Atıf Yılmaz, Yılmaz Güney, Erden Kıral, Tunç Başaran and Yusuf Kurçenli will be commemorated.
Don't Hit The Kite And Blackout Nights
There will be a talk at 15.00 after a movie that will be screened at Seminar Hall-A at 17.00 every day during the fair. After the screening of Erden Kıral's adaptation of Orhan Kemal's "On Fertile Lands" on March 11, the event series will start with Doğu Yücel's interview, and on March 12, Ercan Kesal and Ömer Türkeş will attend after Mahmut Fazıl Coşkun's “Announcement” movie. It will continue with a talk titled “Coups in Our Literature and Cinema”.
On March 13, after Tunç Başaran's film “Let them not shoot the kite”, Feride Çiçekoğlu, the author of the book, will talk about the relationship between literature and cinema. After Yusuf Kurçenli's Rıfat Ilgaz adaptation “Blackout Nights” on 14 March, Nesteren Davutoğlu, Kurçenli's assistants directors Aydın Sayman and Yıldız Bakoğlu will talk about the production process of the film and its struggle against censorship. After the screening of Yılmaz Güney's movie “Baba” on March 15, İnci Aral will give a talk titled “Revolutionary Artist Yılmaz Güney”.
From Man in the Street to His Name is Vasfiye
Atıf Yılmaz's film “Keşanlı Ali Epic” will be screened on March 16, Haldun Taner's birthday; Behçet Çelik and Zeynep Oral will talk about Taner's stories and theater plays. Following Biket İlhan's "Man on the Street" film adapted from Attila İlhan's novel on March 17, writer and poet Gülce Başer, the coordinator of İzmir's UNESCO City of Literature candidacy studies, wrote "Writers from İzmir in Cinema" and Biket İlhan shared his work with Attila İlhan. explain the adaptation process.
After the screening of Atıf Yılmaz's movie "Adı Vasfiye", adapted from Necati Cumalı's short stories, on March 18, Barış Pirhasan, who wrote the screenplay of the movie and won the PEN Writers' Association 2023 Poetry Award, will give an interview on the relationship between literature and cinema. On March 19, the last day of the fair, after the movie "Sis ve Gece", adapted from Ahmet Ümit's novel, writer Ahmet Ümit and director Turgut Yasalar will talk about the process of adapting the novel to the cinema. Event curator Vecdi Sayar, who will moderate the conversations, said that they are planning to include the works of our master writers, who were not included in this year's program, as well as examples adapted from world literature and films made about famous writers at next year's fair.