HOLLYWOOD NEW DIRECTORS "Honorable Mention"
International Independent Filmfestival Philadelphia ("Official Selection")
International Chicago Arthouse Filmfestival (Semi-Final)
'Best Film of the Month August'', Deutsche Film- und Medienbewertung (FBW), Germany
- Rating: ''especially valuable'', German Film and Media Rating (FBW), Germany
- WINNER: North American Movie Awards, USA
- WINNER: American Movie Awards, USA
- WINNER: ‘‘Best Family Film’‘ Alaska International Film Award (AIFA), USA
- GRAND PRIZE: ‘‘Best Cinematography’‘ Flickers Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF). USA
- WINNER: Panavision Award, USA
- WINNER: ‘‘Best Human Rights’‘ Phoenix Film Festival Melbourne, Australia
- WINNER: ‘‘Best Film’‘ TMFF The Film Festival 2016, UK
- WINNER: ‘‘Best Screenwriter’‘ (Selcuk Cara) TMFF The Film Festival 2016, UK
- WINNER: ‘‘Best Editor’‘ (Selcuk Cara) TMFF The Film Festival 2016, UK
- WINNER: The Red Rock Film Festival Utah, USA
- WINNER: ‘‘Best Narrative Film’‘ Creation International Film Festival, Canada
- WINNER: Wolves Independant International Film Awards, Lithuania
- WINNER: Feel the Reel International Film Festival Glasgow, Scotland
- WINNER: ‘‘Best Student Film’‘ (My Last Concert) Bucharest Shortcut Cinefest, Romania
- WINNER: ‘‘Best Editor’‘ (Selcuk Cara, My Last Concert) Bucharest Shortcut Cinefest, Romania
- WINNER: ‘‘Best Cinematography’‘ (My Last Concert) Bucharest Shortcut Cinefest, Romania
- WINNER: HIFF ‘‘Golden Cine Award’‘, USA/Canada
- WINNER: ‘‘Best Director’‘ Sose International Film Festival, Yerevan, Armenia
- WINNER: ‘‘Audience Award’‘ (Lullaby) Bucharest ShortCut CineFest, Romania
- WINNER: ‘‘Best Student Film’‘ ShortPole London International Film Festival, UK
- WINNER: ‘‘Best Actress’‘ ShortPole London International Film Festival, UK
- WINNER: ‘‘Silver Award – Best Film’‘ ShortPole London International Film Festival, UK
- WINNER: ‘‘Best Student Film’‘ London Golden Scout International Film Festival, UK
- WINNER: ‘‘Best Film’‘ Largo International Film Award Genf, Schweiz
- WINNER: ‘‘Best Editing’‘ (Selcuk Cara) Cinema Worldfest Awards, Kanada
- WINNER: ‘‘Best Action/Thriller’‘ Cinema Worldfest Awards, Kanada
- FINALIST: ‘‘Best Fiction Film’‘ Eindhovens Film Festival 2016, Nederland
- FINALIST: ‘‘Best Art Director’‘ (Selcuk Cara) Eindhovens Film Festival 2016, Nederland
- FINALIST: ‘‘Best Cinematography’‘ Eindhovens Film Festival 2016, Nederland
- FINALIST: ‘‘Best Original Music’‘ Eindhovens Film Festival 2016, Nederland
- SEMI-FINALIST: ‘‘Best Fiction Film’‘ Hollywood Screenings Film Festival 2016, L.A., USA
- SEMI-FINALIST: Los Angeles CineFest, USA -Official Selection 36. Filmfestival Max-Ophüls-Preis, Deutschland
- NOMINEE: ‘‘Best Editor’‘ (Selcuk Cara, Lullaby) Bucharest ShortCut CineFest, Romania
- NOMINEE: ‘‘Best Screenplay’‘ (Selcuk Cara, Mein letztes Konzert) Bucharest Shortcut Cinefest, Romania
- NOMINEE: ‘‘Best Director’‘ (Selcuk Cara, Mein Letztes Konzert) Bucharest Shortcut Cinefest, Romania
- Official Selection: Montreal World Film Festival (best film, best fiction-short, best director), Kanada
- Official Selection: Flickers: Rhode Island International Film Festival (best film, best director), USA
- Official Selection: New York City International Film Festival (NYCIFF), USA
- Official Selection: UK Film Festival – British film festival London, United Kingdom
- Official Selection: Michael Ballhaus Cinematography Award – First Steps Award, Deutschland
- Official Selection: CamerImage 2014 – International Filmfestival of the art of cinematography, Polen
- Official Selection: Navi Mumbai (home of bollywood) International Film Festival (NMIFF), India
- Official Selection: Lille European Film Festival / Festival du Cinéma européen de Lille, Frankreich
- Official Selection: Sunscreen Film Festival, USA
- Official Selection: Chicago International Arthouse Film Festival, USA
- Official Selection: Nicaragua International Film Festival, Nicaragua
- Official Selection: Big as Texas Short Film Festival, USA
- Official Selection: International Short Film Festival Detmold, Deutschland
- Official Selection: Mosaic World Film Festival (MWFF), USA
- Official Selection: Les Petits Claps: Festival de courts-métrages / Das deutsch-französische Festival Metz, Frankreich
- Official Selection: Roving Eye International Film Festival, USA
- Official Selection: Hermosillo International Film Festival, Mexico
- Official Selection: Delhi International Filmfestival, Indien
- Official Selection: CamerImage 2012 – International Filmfestival of the art of cinematography, Polen
- Official Selection: Level Ground Filmfestival Pasadena USA
- Official Selection: Pride Mostra Filmfestival Cap Verde
- Official Selection: Everybody’s perfect 3 Filmfestival Genf, Schweiz
- Official Selection: Perlen Filmfestival Hannover, Deutschland
- Official Selection: Outtakes Film Festival, Neuseeland
- Official Selection: 7º For Rainbow – Festival de Cinema e Cultura, Brasilien
- Official Selection: Florence Festival Internazionale Di Cinema LGBT, Italien
- Official Selection: El lugar sin limetes, Festival de Cine, Ecuador
- Official Selection: Rio Festival Gay de Cinema 2013, Brasilien
- Official Selection: ‘‘Die SPITZiale’‘, Deutschland
- Official Selection: Florida Tally Shorts Film Festival, USA
- Official Selection: 20. Filmfestival Türkei / Deutschland, Deutschland
- Official Selection: 12. Neiße-Filmfestival, Deutschland
- Official Selection: inHOUSE Film Festival London, United Kingdom
- Official Selection: Changing Perspectives Film Festival (Istanbul, Berlin, Copenhagen), Dänemark, Deutschland, Türkei
- Official Selection: Visionaria International Film Festival, Italien
- Official Selection: Red Rock International Film Festival, USA
- Official Selection: Blackbird Film Festival,USA
- Official Selection: Tracce Cinematografiche Film Fest, Italia
- Official Selection: Dortmunder Tresen-Filmfestival, Deutschland
- Official Selection: Human Rights Film Festival of Barcelona / NYC / Paris
- Official Selection: Ozark Shorts Film Festival 2016, USA
- Official Selection: ‘‘TMFF The Film Festival’‘ 2016, UK
- Official Selection: Moving Pictures Festival 2016, Begium
- Official Selection: Sose International Film Festival, Armenia
- Official Selection: Creation International Film Festival, Canada
- Official Selection: Feel the Reel International Film Festival Glasgow, Scotland 2016
- Official Selection: Themodcom London Film Festival, UK
- Official Selection: Auckland International Film Festival, NZ
- Official Competition Bucharest ShortCut CineFest 2016, Romania
- Official Selection: Largo Film Awards, Schweiz
- Official Selection: Dhaka International Film Festival, Bangladesh
- Official Selection: Eindhovens Film Festival 2016, Nederland
- Official Selection: ShortPole London International Film Festival, UK
- Official Selection: (’‘My Last Concert’‘) Equality International Film Festival Sacramento Ca., USA
- Official Selection: (’‘Hymnen an die Nacht’‘) Equality International Film Festival Sacramento Ca., USA
- Official Selection: Cinema Worldfest Awards, Kanada
- Official Selection: Chhatrapati Shivaji International Film Festival, India
"The outstanding cinematography strikes one from the very beginning. For its outstanding visuals, for its poetic monologue, for its absolute mastery of building up the suspense and before everything else, for its genius poetic taste, ‘My Last Concert’ has been awarded the 1st place. A truly intense cinematic experience, hard to forget!"
(tmff - review)
“A visual poem. I haven’t really seen a film like this before.”
(New York, USA)
"It is an amazing work of art with breathtaking cinematography."
(Florida, USA)
“This film had incredible production value. I can totally see why it won a Panavision Award.”
(Utah, USA)
„We were tremendously impressed with the quality of work we had the honor of reviewing in this year's AIFA. Your award-winning work represents the absolute finest of several hundred submissions received from over two dozen countries around the globe. Reflecting the highest degree of excellence, your films and screenplays demonstrated imaginativeness, novelty, and polished skill. We congratulate you and praise the talent and craftsmanship manifested in your outstanding work.“
(Alaska International Film Award)
Director Selcuk Cara does a masterful job of translating an otherwise simple premises into an almost lyrically-toned work of art. This series of static elements are perfectly interwoven and create a very pressing atmosphere of suspense. All of these elements create a really poetic and memorable flavour. All in all, it is a masterpiece, and without doubt one of the best entries at our festival in recent months. Its capability to transmit messages of such a beautiful simplicity, that stay with us for a long time after the film has ended, is one of the reasons why we still love cinema.
(Bucharest, Romania)
„(...) to see films made primarily for aesthetic and philosophical reasons rather than commercial profit. The festival would like to approach the caliber of films made by such great directors as Eisenstein, Antonioni, Fellini, Tarkovsky, Godard, Truffaut, Pasolini, Kurosawa, Buñuel, Norshteyn.“
(Chicago, USA)
Selcuk Cara: TRANSFORMING
