Winning films narrowly avoid ban at Istanbul Film Festival

Hejar a melodrama about the relationship between a retired judge and a little orphan Kurdish girl whose family was shot dead by the police, had already been released on Turkish screens for several months, with admissions exceeding 100,000. Hejar had also received awards at the earlier Ankara and Antalyia festivals, ...

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