BERLIN: - fsk , - Karli , - Alhambra
HAMBURG: - Passage
MÜNCHEN: - Museum Lichtspiele
KÖLN: - Filmhaus
FRANKFURT: - Mal Seh'n
NÜRNBERG: - Metropolis
STUTTGART: - EM Kinocenter
"MEN ON THE BRIDGE by Asli Özge is a diamond of current Turkish cinema; a powerful, multi-layered, closely watched portrait of the complex Turkish society."
- FATİH AKIN, director
"A rare film which is consistently subtle in style and works uniformly on different layers. In an extraordinary way, details are genuine and spontaneous, and at the same time give the sense of everything being totally under the control of an agile intellect."
- NURİ BİLGE CEYLAN, director
"Original. Courageous. A very new path in filmmaking."
- KUTLUĞ ATAMAN, director
"Never before have I come across a take on life like this. It's something beyond film."
- ZEKİ DEMİRKUBUZ, director
MEN ON THE BRIDGE will be shown in the Competition of the Festroia Film Festival in Setùbal, Portugal (June 04 - 13 2010).
MEN ON THE BRIDGE will be shown in the competition of the Crossing Europe Film Festival in Linz (April 20 - 25 2010).
MEN ON THE BRIDGE will be shown at the International Women's Film Festival Dortmund/Cologne (April 14 - 18 2010).
MEN ON THE BRIDGE's long awaited Berlin premiere is coming up! The film will be shown in the competition of Achtung Berlin - The New Berlin Film Award (April 14 - 21 2010).
MEN ON THE BRIDGE scoops BEST FILM, BEST ACTORS ENSEMBLE and BEST EDITING awards at the Ankara International Film Festival.
MEN ON THE BRIDGE will be shown in the Competition of the Cinema Novo Film Festival Bruges (March 11 - 21 2010).
MEN ON THE BRIDGE will be shown in the Competition of the Ankara International Film Festival (March 11 - 21 2010) / first screening: March 17, 19:00
MEN ON THE BRIDGE will be shown in the Competition of the Belgrade International Film Festival FEST (Feb. 19-28 2010).
MEN ON THE BRIDGE has been selected to represent Asli Özge's work in a major international survey of film directors to be published by Phaidon Press in Spring 2010, entitled "Take 100: The Future of Film: 100 New Directors".
MEN ON THE BRIDGE will be shown at the Rennes Clair-Obscur Film Festival (Feb. 09-16 2010).
MEN ON THE BRIDGE will be released by Farbfilm Verleih in German cinemas on April 22nd 2010.
MEN ON THE BRIDGE will be shown at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Jan. 27 - Feb. 07 2010). Only screening date: Feb. 03, 17:15 at Venster 4
MEN ON THE BRIDGE will be shown at the Festival Premiers Plans d'Angers (Jan. 22 -31 2010).
MEN ON THE BRIDGE will be shown in the Competition of the Filmfestival Max-Ophüls-Preis in Saarbrücken (Jan. 18-24 2010).
MEN ON THE BRIDGE will be shown in the Competition of the Tirana International Film Festival (Nov. 27th - Dec. 6th).
MEN ON THE BRIDGE will be shown in the Cinema Of The World section of the 40th International Film Festival of India in Goa (Nov. 23rd - Dec. 3rd).
MEN ON THE BRIDGE will be shown in the Balkan Survey section of the 50th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Nov. 13th - 22nd 2009).
MEN ON THE BRIDGE has received the Golden Wings Award at the 15th London Turkish Film Festival, which is granted for distribution in the UK & Ireland.
MEN ON THE BRIDGE will be shown in the competition of the Sevilla European Film Festival (Nov. 06th - 14th 2009).
MEN ON THE BRIDGE will have the German premiere at the upcoming Hofer Filmtage. Screenings: Thu 29 Oct 19:30 Central / Fri 30 Oct 13:00 Casino / Sat 31 Oct 22:30 Cinema
MEN ON THE BRIDGE will have the French premiere in the Competition of the Cinemed Film Festival in Montpellier.
Geoff Andrew, TimeOut London
[...] fresh, relevant, compassionate, convincing, [the film] provides further evidence of the current vitality of Turkish cinema [...] (review)
MEN ON THE BRIDGE also has been marked as TimeOut London's critics' choice.
MEN ON THE BRIDGE will be shown in the Competition of the Mostra Internacional de Cinema Sao Paulo.
MEN ON THE BRIDGE will be shown in the Competition of the Bergen International Film Festival.
MEN ON THE BRIDGE will be shown within the BFI London Film Festival's Cinema Europa section.
MEN ON THE BRIDGE will partcipate in the competition of the Warsaw Film Festival.
MEN ON THE BRIDGE enters the 2009 Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) as the Turkish representative.
MEN ON THE BRIDGE will be screened in the competition of the Reykjavik International Film Festival.
Derek Elley, Variety
... (Aslι Özge) is clearly a director to watch ...
KÖPRÜDEKİLER / MEN ON THE BRIDGE will have the international premiere at the 62nd Locarno Film Festival, competing for the Golden Leopard in the Filmmakers of the Present competition (August 5th-15th, 2009).
KÖPRÜDEKİLER / MEN ON THE BRIDGE will be shown within Toronto Film Festival's Contemporary World Cinema section (Sept. 10th-19th, 2009).
KÖPRÜDEKILER / MEN ON THE BRIDGE has received the Golden Boll Award from jury president Nuri Bilge Ceylan, for Best Film in the National Competition of Adana Film Festival.
Nick James, Sight & Sound
[...] The film with the most originality was Aslı Özge's MEN ON THE BRIDGE. Put together with great charm, sensitivity and an immaculate sense of timing, this multi-strand portrait of the search for some kind of grace in the city deservedly won Istanbul's Golden Tulip [...] link
Klaus Eder, Fipresci
[...] Asli Özge's fiction feature MEN ON THE BRIDGE won the main prize, the "Golden Tulip" in the national competition [of the Istanbul Film Festival], over new films from established directors. Without any doubt, MEN ON THE BRIDGE is an excellent debut which should make its mark, and which deserves the prize [...] link
Christine Prinzing, Schnitt
[...] Der Film trifft den Nerv unserer Zeit - Geschlechterkampf, Orientierungslosigkeit, Zukunftsängste, die Suche nach der großen Liebe und Anerkennung. Viel Zündstoff, der unsere moderne Konsumgesellschaft entlarvt. Ob Rosenverkäufer oder Verkehrspolizist - die Protagonisten werden genau und sensibel beobachtet und nie der Lächerlichkeit oder des Bemitleidens ausgesetzt. Der Spagat zwischen dokumentarischer und instinktsicherer Inszenierung geht auf und macht den Film zu einem nachhaltigen Erlebnis [...] link
Kirsten Riesselmann, taz
[...] MEN ON THE BRIDGE, ein schöner, sehr instinktsicher inszenierter Semidokumentarfilm, der über das Parallelporträt dreier Männer, die auf der Bosporusbrücke als Sammeltaxifahrer, Polizist und Rosenverkäufer ihren Lebensunterhalt verdienen, eines der ewigen Themen des türkischen Kinos angenehm nüchtern und realitätsnah weiterführte: die Stadt Istanbul als Sammelbecken für Millionen Kleinstbürger, die hart für ihren sozialen Aufstieg rackern. Ein guter Gewinner des nationalen Wettbewerbs [...] link
KÖPRÜDEKILER / MEN ON THE BRIDGE has won the Golden Tulip Award for Best Film at Istanbul Film Festival's national competition.
KÖPRÜDEKİLER / MEN ON THE BRIDGE will be screened within Istanbul Film Festival's national competition. The film will be shown on April 15th at 21:30h at the Emek Theater.
Under the working title RUSH HOUR, our film has been selected to partcipate at the rough cut round table pitching of IDFA Amsterdam. The pitchings will take place between November 24th and 26th.
Shooting of our film with the working title RUSH HOUR has been wrapped in Istanbul. We have started post-production in Berlin.
Our film, with the current working title RUSH HOUR has been selected to participate at the Pitchings du Réel at Visions Du Réel Festival in Nyon, Switzerland.
