Turkish Dramas Win at Oldenburg Festival — hollywoodreporter.com

At a time when their home country is descending further into political turmoil, two Turkish filmmakers have received major awards at the Oldenburg International Film Festival. Emre Konuk’s drama The Apprentice, about a modern-day Bartleby who descends into paranoia when he’s forced to make changes to his daily routine, won Oldenburg’s German Independent Award, the festival's top honor, while first-time director Ruken Tekes scored  with The Circle, an intimate portrait of social and racial oppression of Kurds in Turkey, which won the award for best short film.

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