Turkish director Zeki Demirkubuz drama Life scooped the top Golden Bee award for Best Feature Film at Malta’s second Mediterrane Film Festival over the weekend.
This year’s selection was overseen by Italian film festival veteran Teresa Cavina, who pulled together a line-up of 45 works with Mediterranean basin connections, 15 of which were in the main Competition.
All the competition titles had previously world premiered in other festivals. Life debuted at the Istanbul-set Filmekimi festival last October, and also played in Rotterdam earlier this year.
The drama revolves around a young woman who flees her home to get out of a forced engagement, with the jilted fiancé then seeking her in bid to understand this promised future wife that he hardly knew.
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