- Hejar (film)
Infobox Film
name = Hejar
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director =Handan İpekçi
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writer =Handan İpekçi
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music =Mazlum Çimen ,Serdar Yalçın
cinematography =Erdal Kahraman
editing =Nikos Kanakis
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released = 2001
runtime = 120 minutes
country = TUR
language = Kurdish, Turkish
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imdb_id = 0298780"Hejar" ( _tr. Büyük Adam Küçük Aşk, _ku. Hejar) is a 2001
film written and directed byHandan İpekçi . The film's Turkish title translates as "Big Man, Little Love". The film won nine awards, including Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor & Actress at theAntalya Golden Orange Film Festival , and won the "People's Choice Award" at the 2003Istanbul International Film Festival .Fact|date=September 2008Plot
An orphaned Kurdish child ("Hejar") and a Turkish pensioner ("Rıfat") are thrown together by circumstance. "Rıfat", a widowed retired judge, refuses to get involved in politics. He is forced out of his solitude, when "Hejar" the only survivor of a police raid on his Kurdish neighbors, takes refuge at his home. Gradually, he warms up to the kid and decides to reunite her with her family.
Cast
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Şükran Güngör as Rıfat Bey
*Dilan Erçetin as Hejar
*Füsun Demirel as Sakine
*Yıldız Kenter as Müzeyyen Hanım
*İsmail Hakkı Şen as Evdo EmmiAwards
# Golden Orange & Special Jury Awards (Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor & Actress) ,
Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival , 2001.
# Silver Pyramid Award,Cairo International Film Festival , 2002.
# Best Screenplay Award,Cologne Mediterranean Film Festival , 2002.
# People's Choice Award,Istanbul International Film Festival , 2003.External links
*imdb title|id=0298780|title=Hejar
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2003/01/22/hejar_2003_review.shtml Hejar, Reviewed by Neil Smith] , BBC, Jan. 2003.###@@@KEY@@@###
succession box
title=Golden Orange Award for Best Picture
years=2001
before="Güle Güle "
after="Uzak "
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