Academician Ayten Bengisu Cansever, Director-Author Biriz Öztüzemen, Director Burak Demirkol, Academician Büşra Kamacıoğlu, Journalist-Art Critic Deniz Ali Tatar, Academician Eda Çekemci, Assistant Director-Translator Erdem Doğan, Director Furkan Yazgeç, Academician Hakan Aşkan, Writer Işıl Gündoğdu, By the valuable preliminary jury team consisting of Director Kerem Yükseloğlu, Academician Mustafa Dallı, Academician Okan Kırbacı, Academician-Director Ömür Kınay Alkan, Academician Özcan Demir and Academician Zuhal Akmeşe. Instructor Films were evaluated under the chairmanship of its member Emre Doğan.
As a result of the evaluations of the preliminary jury members, 10 films with 5 foreign and 5 local films in each category and 40 films in total became finalists. These movies are listed below:
Fiction Category Finalist Films
Cadde La Notte Su Dı Me – Bruno Ugioli, Ricardo Menicatti
Dördüncü Duvar – Mehmet Kaan Karataş
Feeling Through – Doug Roland
Kulak Misafiri – Ahmet Toğaç
Sıradan Bir Gün – Arda Gökçe
Servis – Ramazan Kılıç
Spotted Yellow – Baran Sarmad
Susam – Sami Morhayim
The Bathtub – Sergi Marti Maltas
Experimental Category Finalist Films
A Song- Rene Reinhardt, Thadeusz Tischbein
Çerçeve – Berk Sata, Mert Sata
Dış Hatlar – Erinç Durlanık
Headshot – Saki Çimen
Larva – Volkan Güney Eker
Mixi – Jyotsna Puthran
Revolykus – Victor Orozco Ramirez
Squared – Helena Gudkova
“Şey” – Burak Budak
The Pleasure of Killing Bugs – Leonardo Martinelli
Documentary Category Finalist Films
Ballada For Galilei – Ralitza Dimitrova
Çeşme – İlayda İşeri
Çocuklar Aşkına – Ahmet Mücahid Aydoğan
Donuk Bakışlar – Rıdvan Karaman
Elong E’nabe – Niels Devlieghere
Ka Mano Moana – Lotte Twaalfhoven
Kelebek Adam – Enis Manaz
My Dad, The Camera and I – Felipe Camargo De Moura Campos
Sürgünde Bir Yıl – Malaz Usta
We Have One Heart – Katarzyna Warzecha
Animation Category Finalist Films
Factory – Azar Mansoori
Girl And Cloud – Shokir Kuziboy Ugli Kholikov
Gün Işığı – Baturay Tunçat
In The Woods – Ilgın Saçan
Kauai – Aysun Karaosman
Korosi – Burcu Özkan
Oyun – Önder Menken
The White Whale – Amir Mehran
The Seine’s Tears – Yanis Belaid, Eliott Benard, Nicolas Mayeur, Etienne Moulin, Hadrien Pinot, Lisa Vicente, Philippine Singer, Alice Letailleur
Yallah! – Nayla Nassar, Edouard Pitula, Renaud De Saint Albin, Cecile Adant, Anais Sassatelli, Candice Behague
Res. Asst. Ayten Bengisu Cansever from Istanbul Gelişim University Fine Arts Faculty Communication and Design Department, who took part in the preliminary evaluation of the films, evaluated the TAYF International Short Film Festival as follows:
“Our TAYF International Short Film Festival, which started on November 20, 2021, attracted a lot of attention and we, the front juries, had a lot of work. We actually rated each movie by watching and discussing it in detail. It was a very intense but enjoyable process. Our finalist films were films that we met with all the preliminary juries on a common point and believed to be truly successful. Now all eyes are on the Gala night, which will take place on February 27.”
