Turkish Movie Takes Top Prize at the Sarajevo Film Festival

“A Man’s Fear of God” (“Takva”) is the Turkish movie directed by filmmaker Ozer Kiziltan hat has won the top award at the 13th edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival. The movie tells about the fear that overwhelms a true believer when he is caught up in religious corruption.
“A Man’s Fear of God” has won at the closing ceremony from Saturday night the top prize called the Heart of Sarajevo and 25,000 Euros. The movie tells the story of a Muslim true believer, whose life changes when a powerful religious group recruits him as a rent collector and throws him this way into the modern outside world. But the brand new job will put his devotion to the test and the man’s fear of God starts to drive him mad.
“When you think of fear, when fear brings you close to losing your mind, it’s just as if the fear eats away at your soul.” – has said the Turkish-born German co-producer Fatih Akin, who co-produced the movie and has received the Heart of Sarajevo Award on behalf of his crew.
Fatih Akin has also said they haven’t expected the award, when he has argued why the team behind the movie had already left Sarajevo.
However, at this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival the Turkish movies have dominated the in Balkan’s greatest movie competition, as three Turkish movie have been included in the contest. At the Best Actress category it has been also a Turkish actress who has won. Saadet Isil Aksoy has been awarded at this category for her role from “Egg”, a movie directed by Semih Kaplanoglu.
“I’m from Titov Veles”, a Macedonian movie by Teona Strugar-Mitevska, has won the Special Jury award at this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival.

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