WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival
Turkey's film-makers tackle burning contemporary issues PICAP Iron in the Soul: The Adventure of Sukran The Lame
Iron in the Soul: The Adventure of Sukran The Lame
JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
THIS year’s Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival — the 56th — entered a new chapter following a two-year tug of war between Antalya’s former mayor Menderes Turel, a member of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP), and the country’s independent film-making community over its direction.
As the city council bankrolls the festival, Turel had been able to control the national competition but that ended last March when he lost his seat to centre-left candidate Muhittin Bocek in local elections, which saw the AKP lose control.
This meant that this year’s festival heralded the return of the national feature film competition, as well as documentaries and shorts.
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