At the 63rd Antalya International Golden Orange Film Festival, the jury members for the International Feature Film Competition have been announced. Chaired by Andreas Sinanos, the jury consists of “Nejat İşler, Yasmine Al Massri, Maryna Er Gorbach, and Fadik Sevin Atasoy.”
The jury members for the International Feature Film Competition at the International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival Turkey’s longest-running film festival, set to take place October 24–31, 2026 have been announced.
In the International Feature Film Competition, the following films will compete: “Round 13,” “Six Weeks On,” “The Moon Is a Father of Mine,” “Black Rabbit, White Rabbit,” “A Turkish Case,” “All the Lovers in the Night,” “Minotaur - Minotor,’ ‘The River Train,’ ‘Paris Paris,’ ‘Riverstone,’ ‘Sevda,’ ‘A Bit of Light,’ and ‘Sad Girlz’ will compete.
Experienced Figures on the International Jury!
Andreas Sinanos, Chair of the International Feature Film Jury, is a member of the European Film Academy [EFA], the French Association of Cinematographers [AFC], and the Greek Society of Cinematographers (GSC). Sinanos has worked as a cinematographer on numerous feature films alongside Theo Angelopoulos, Mickael Cacoyiannis, Chris Marker, Hiner Saleem, Jeanine Merapfeel, Selma Bakar, Tayfun Pirselimoğlu, Özcan Alper, Semih Kaplanoğlu, and Murat Pay. Sinanos won the Greek Ministry of Culture’s Best Cinematographer Award for Vassiliki Iliopoulou’s “The Crossing” and Yiannis Diamantopoulos’s “True Beauty,” and received the Thessaloniki Film Festival Award for Christos Vacalopoulos’s “Olga Robards,” Nikos Cornelios’s “Equinox,” and Lefteris Xanthopoulos’s “The Master of Shadows,” for which he received the Thessaloniki Film Festival Award.
Sinanos won the Best Cinematographer award at the Antalya Film Festival and from SİYAD (Association of Film Critics) for Özcan Alper’s film “Memories of the Wind.” He also won the SİYAD award for Tayfun Pirselimoğlu’s film “Yol Kenarı” and Best Cinematography awards at the Malatya, Kayseri, and Boğaziçi Film Festivals for Murat Pay’s film “Dilsiz.”
With Theo Angelopoulos, he worked on “The Stork’s Delayed Step,” “The Gaze of Ulysses,” “Eternity and a Day,” and “The Weeping Meadow” (Best Cinematographer nomination EFA), “Everyone’s Own Cinema” (a three-minute excerpt), “The Dust of Time,” and “The Other Sea” (unfinished).
Nejat İşler, a member of the International Feature Film Jury, acted in state theater productions and television series until he graduated from the Mimar Sinan University State Conservatory in 1995. After graduating in 1995, İşler founded the “Company of Heroes and Fools.” Nejat İşler was nominated for “Best Actor” at the 41st Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival in 2004 for *Everything About Mustafa* and at the 44th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival in 2007 for his performance in *Egg*. The film *Winter Sleep*, in which İşler starred in 2014, won the Palme d’Or at the 67th Cannes Film Festival, achieving tremendous international success. He won the Best Actor Award at the 61st Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival for his role in *Playing House*. Nejat İşler is a member of the European Film Academy (EFA), which also organizes the European Film Awards.
International Feature Film Jury Member; Yasmine Al Massri, an internationally renowned film and television actress, producer, and multimedia artist active in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and North America, starred in the historical epic *Palestine 36*. The film achieved strong box office performance in the United Kingdom and Ireland, won the Best Film award at the Tokyo International Film Festival, received nominations at the European Film Awards and the Asia-Pacific Screen Awards, and was selected to represent Palestine in the 2026 Academy Awards race.
Yasmine Al Massri, whose performance in *The Strangers’ Case* which won the Best International Feature Film award at the Raindance Film Festival and garnered over 40 international awards and nominations earned her the Best Actress Award at the Seattle International Film Festival (2024) for her performance in *The Strangers’ Case*, which won the Best International Feature Film award at the Raindance Film Festival and has garnered over 40 international awards and nominations. She was also nominated for Best Actress at the 2025 Cannes International Film Festival (ACC, MAD Solutions, and IEFTA) for her role in *Thank You for Banking with Us*.
Earlier in her career, Yasmine Al Massri starred in *Caramel*, which premiered at Cannes and earned the title of the highest-grossing Middle Eastern film of its time; the film received numerous international awards, including the Asia-Pacific Screen Award for Best Ensemble Cast. She also starred in *Miral*, which was nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and won the UNICEF and UNESCO Human Rights Awards.
In the world of television, Yasmine Al Massri who was named “Breakout Star” of 2015 by *Variety* magazine for her portrayal of twin FBI agents in the series *Quantico* has also appeared in *Crossbones* and *Law & Order*. Her voice acting credits include voicing the first Middle Eastern vampire in the Netflix series “Castlevania” and the first Egyptian character in the Disney production “Mickey Mouse Funhouse.” Al Massri, who grew up as a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon, draws deeply on her personal history to shape her artistic mission.
Director and screenwriter Maryna Er Gorbach, a member of the International Feature Film Jury, graduated from the I. K. Karpenko-Kary National University of Theater, Cinema, and Television in Kyiv, followed by a master’s degree from the Andrzej Wajda School of Film Directing. Maryna Er Gorbach has been a member of the European Film Academy since 2017. Her latest film, *Klondike*, has been honored with awards at the Sundance Film Festival, the Berlinale, the Istanbul Film Festival, and many other prestigious festivals. *Klondike* also represented Ukraine at the 2023 Academy Awards.
Fadik Sevin Atasoy, an actress, writer, and director who serves as a member of the International Feature Film Jury, made her stage debut at the age of 4 in the State Theaters’ production of *Teneke* and won her first award for that role. In the following years, she worked as a child actor in TRT’s radio and television productions. She graduated from the Department of Acting at Bilkent University’s Faculty of Music and Performing Arts. She completed her master’s degree with a thesis. She studied screenwriting at UCLA in Los Angeles. Atasoy made her film debut in 2005 with *O Şimdi Mahkûm* and won the Best Supporting Actress award at the Golden Orange Film Festival for her role in the film. Atasoy was honored with the Best Actress award at the Ankara International Film Festival for *Zeynep’s Eight Days* and received the Best Actress award at the NYU Tisch First Run Film Festival for her performance in the American film *Merhaba*.
Fadik Sevin Atasoy co-founded the New York Arts Community with her father, actor and writer Sönmez Atasoy, in 2008 and appeared in Broadway plays. From 2011 to 2013, Atasoy was appointed as a Film Ambassador in Los Angeles by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism and served as a consultant on co-production projects.
In 2014, Atasoy settled in Los Angeles and founded the production company RedCase Entertainment. She also wrote and starred in the one-woman musical MUSE 90401, with which she participated in festivals and toured across the United States, Europe, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Her short film *Juliet’s Journey*, which she wrote and directed, had its world premiere at the Reykjavík Feminist Film Festival. The artist, who also reached an international audience with the television production *My Brothers*, has served on the jury at the Taranto Film Festival in Italy, the Golden Pomegranate Film Festival, and numerous other national and international film festivals. Atasoy continues her career between Turkey and the United States.
The awards for the 63rd International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival will be announced at the awards ceremony on Saturday, October 31, 2026.
