Cold of Kalandar

2015 film

Mustafa Kara
Bilal Sert

Produced by

Nermin Aytekin
Iván Angelusz

StarringHaydar SismanCinematography

Cevahir Sahin
Kürsat Üresin

Edited by

Ali Aga
Umut Sakallioglu
Serhat Solmaz

Music byEleonore FourniauDistributed byM3-film

Release dates

28 October 2015 (2015-10-28) (Tokyo IFF)
16 September 2016 (2016-09-16) (Turkey)

Running time

139 minutesCountryTurkeyLanguageTurkishBox office$59,784^[1]^[2]

Cold of Kalandar (Turkish: Kalandar Soğuğu) is a 2015 Turkish drama film directed by Mustafa Kara. It was selected as the Turkish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards but it was not nominated.^[3] ^[4]

Cast

Haydar Sisman
Nuray Yesilaraz
Hanife Kara
Ibrahim Kuvvet
Temel Kara

Awards

At the 2016 Haifa International Film Festival, Cold of Kalandar received two awards: the "Golden Anchor" Award (Best Film in the Mediterranean Film Competition) and the Fedeora Award by the Federation of Film Critics of Europe and the Mediterranean for Best Foreign Film.^[5] It also won the award for Best Film at the 2016 Asia Pacific Screen Awards, and IFFI ICFT UNESCO Gandhi Medal at the 47th International Film Festival of India ^[6]

References

^ "Kalandar sogugu". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
^ "Cold in Kandahar (Kalandar Soğuğu)". The Numbers. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
^ "Türkiye'nin Oscar adayı "Kalandar Soğuğu" oldu". T24.com. 27 September 2016. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
^ "Turkey submits rural drama Cold of Kalandar for this year's Oscars". Daily Sabah. 27 September 2016. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
^ "The award winners- Haifa International Film Festival 2016". Haifa International Film Festival. Archived from the original on 8 November 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
^ "APSA Nominees & Winners".

External links

Cold of Kalandar at IMDb

UNESCO Gandhi Medal for Best Film on peace and inter-cultural dialogue

2015-present (Best Film)

Cinemawala (2015)
Cold of Kalandar (2016)
Kshitij A Horizon (2017)
Walking With the Wind (2018)
Rwanda (2019)
200 Meters (2020)
Lingui, The Sacred Bonds (2021)
Nargesi (2022)
Drift (2023)

2015-present (Special Mention - Best Film)

72 Hoorain (2019)

v t e Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Feature Film
2000s	Secret Sunshine (2007) Tulpan (2008) Samson and Delilah (2009)
2010s	Aftershock (2010) A Separation (2011) Beyond the Hill (2012) Omar (2013) Leviathan (2014) Cemetery of Splendour (2015) Cold of Kalandar (2016) Sweet Country (2017) Shoplifters (2018) Parasite (2019)
2020s	Not held (2020) Drive My Car (2021) Before, Now & Then (2022)

v t e Turkish submissions for Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
2001–2020	Big Man, Little Love (2001) 9 (2002) Uzak (2003) Lovelorn (2005) Ice Cream, I Scream (2006) Takva: A Man's Fear of God (2007) Three Monkeys (2008) I Saw the Sun (2009) Honey (2010) Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) Where the Fire Burns (2012) The Butterfly's Dream (2013) Winter Sleep (2014) Sivas (2015) Cold of Kalandar (2016) Ayla: The Daughter of War (2017) The Wild Pear Tree (2018) Commitment (2019) Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2020)
2021–present	Commitment Hasan (2021) Kerr (2022) About Dry Grasses (2023)

Turkish submissions for Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

2001–2020