The winners of the Short Film Competition, organized by Sabancı Foundation for the seventh time this year with the slogan “Short Film Long Impact”, have been determined. The first prize went to the directors Ece Akın and Mustafa Solmaz with the movie Girl’s House. Speaking at the award ceremony, Sabancı Foundation Chairman of the Board of Trustees Güler Sabancı said, “The theme we have determined in our competition this year, ‘Young Women in Neither Education nor Employment’, is one of our most important issues as Sabancı Foundation. In this context, it is pleasing that the filmmakers embraced this subject and participated in the competition with their highly creative works. The potential we saw during the competition gives us hope for our future.” said.

The winners of the Short Film Competition, which Sabancı Foundation organized for the seventh time this year with the slogan “Short Film Long Impact”, have been announced. The award ceremony of the competition, which was held in the Sabancı Center for the first time in two years, with the theme of “Young women in neither education nor employment”; The event was hosted by Sabancı Foundation Board of Trustees Chairperson Güler Sabancı, Sabancı Foundation General Manager Nevgül Bilsel Safkan and art direction by Zeynep Atakan.

The award ceremony, which was attended by well-known names from the world of cinema and society; Names such as Ahu Yağtu, Bulut Reyhanoğlu, Ebru Uygun, Ezel Akay, Gözde Duru, Hülya Eltemur, Nedim Bozfakıoğlu, Sedat Aloğlu, Sedat Çalarkan attended.

While the competition attracted great interest from young artists, the directors Ece Akın and Mustafa Solmaz won the first prize among the 11 works that made it to the final, with the movie “Girl’s House”. Sabancı Foundation Chairman of the Board of Trustees Güler Sabancı presented the award to Ece Akın and Mustafa Solmaz. Sabancı Foundation General Manager Nevgül Bilsel Safkan presented the award to Dilşad Demir, the director of the movie “Well Who Is This Woman?”, the second of the competition, while the award was presented to Hüseyin Urçuk, the director of the movie, “Laundry Line,” by Zeynep Atakan, the artistic director of the competition. Süheyla Noyan won the Social Impact Award, which was given for the second time this year, for her movie ‘Flower Opens’. Melihat Ağgül for the movie “I Want to Fish” and Erkan Selçin for the movie “Pattern” also won the honorable mention.

Award winners; The jury of the 7th Short Film Competition was determined by the evaluations of director and screenwriter Biket İlhan, President of the European Film Academy (EFA), producer and writer Mike Downey, director Zeynep Günay Tan, actress Kaan Urgancıoğlu and award-winning Spanish actress from world cinema Beatriz Rico. On the Social Impact Jury, dramaturge Dr. Sündüz Haşar, Sabancı University Cultural Studies and Gender Studies Program Faculty Member Assoc. Dr. Ayşecan Terzioğlu and Education Specialist Ali Koç.

In her speech at the award ceremony, Sabancı Foundation Chairman of the Board of Trustees Güler Sabancı stated that they determined the theme of the competition as “Young women who are neither in education nor employment” and that a record was broken in the number of female directors applying to the competition this year, “Exactly 7 years ago, Sabancı Foundation Short Film Competition We started ‘Short Film Long Effect’ with the slogan. As in the half-century history of our foundation, we aimed to draw attention to social issues through cinema and to contribute to the development of young artists with the Short Film Competition. Every year, we touch on a different social issue. As the Sabancı Foundation, the theme we determined in our competition this year, ‘Young Women in Neither Education nor Employment’, is one of our most important issues. The problem of young women, who are neither in education nor in employment, has been among the biggest problems of the whole world, especially our country, in recent years. As we take action in the face of this problem, taking the transformative power of art with us, we have determined this year’s theme of the Short Film Competition as young women who are neither in education nor in employment. Fortunately, we saw that filmmakers embraced this issue and it worked very well. Half of the applicants to the Sabancı Foundation Short Film Competition this year are female producers and directors. This is the closest we have come to gender equality since the competition started in 2016. I also see it as a pleasing development that 7 of the 11 finalist films have female directors, and I am proud of that. The potential we see in the application and evaluation process of the Sabancı Foundation Short Film Competition gives us hope for our future. I sincerely hope that this competition will be a stepping stone for young filmmakers and open new doors for them.” said.

Sabancı Foundation Short Film Competition, “Refugee Women” in its first year, “Child Labor” in its second year, “Discrimination” in its third year, “Digital Loneliness” in its fourth year, “Changing Climates, Changing Lives” in its fifth year, and “New Jobs in the New World” in its sixth year. ” and in its seventh year, it was organized with the theme of “Young Women in Neither Education nor Employment”.