Selected Reviews of Films By Mehmet ERYILMAZ

Your work” A Fairground Attraction” has a very strong potential and was really appreciated by all members of the Committee.
Elena Pollacchi / 22. Settimana Internazionale della Critica

A Fairground Attraction …The best Turkish movie that we received this year…2007.
Sergio Grmek Germani / Consultant of Venice Film Festival

Congrulagations for “A Fairground Attraction”...A beautiful and significant film, magnificently produced and shot. I understand that the backdrop of the romany fair may be one of the last ones, as the tradition is dying out.
Nick Fletcher / Marketing Communications JVC -London

I began by watching the films you sent us at the University of Maryland Center for Turkish Music and found them extraordinarily successful.
Münir N. Beken / Executive Director

I was beside myself with enthusiasm and appreciation that work like this was still being produced in Turkey... I regret having watched the film a week late. Well done and keep creating.
Ayşe Şasa/Film Critic & Screenwriter

We are satisfied with your excellent work...
Naoki Omori / Sakura Motion Picture Co, Japan

I wish we’d seen your film earlier; it would have been a pleasure for us to award you the Grand Prize. [On the film SILENT, 1991.]
Angela Heard - President of the Jury / Oberhausen Short Film Festival

One evening last week I dialled a 900 number for the first time in my life. I dialled the number and it changed my life. I was most impressed by the film I saw and have to thank the people who made it. [On a commercial made for the Foundation for the Blind.]
Ertuğrul Özkök - Editor-in-chief, Hürriyet Newspaper

In portraying the breakdown of a relationship, Mehmet Eryılmaz’s film benefits from a felicitous choice of sets and locations, a meticulous visual style and memorable use of symbolism. On this basis, the film was seen to merit the award given. [1994]
Ankara Film Festival / Jury Decision

Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful... I’ve never seen a film like it in this country, let alone this kind of images..
Aynur Tuncer / Published & Translator