Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica accuses Turkey of Genocide denial and leaves Golden Orange festival in Antalya. He left Antalya on Sunday, just one day after the southern city’s Golden Orange International Film Festival, where he was going to serve as a member of the international feature competition jury, opened its 47th year with a ceremony marked by controversy, reports Turkish daily Today’s Zaman. The famed director of such critically acclaimed films as “Underground” and “The Time of the Gypsies,” labeling reactions to his being a member of the jury at the festival as “barbaric and primitive,” said he was withdrawing from the jury and canceling the rest of his program in Antalya, which also included workshops with film students. The 47th edition of Antalya’s annual cinematic fare is now clouded with politically charged statements and protests. The festival, billed by Turkey’s movie industry as the country’s most prestigious film festival, has thus been marred by a scandal, drawing the event away from its main target of boosting Turkey’s movie industry. tert.am/en/news/2010/10/11/kusturica/?fb_action_ids=10200761238805736&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=[4477/?sw/?sw
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