Ice Cream, I Scream

Ice Cream, I Scream
Directed by Yüksel Aksu
Produced by Yüksel Aksu
Tankut Kılınç
Eyüp Boz
Written by Yüksel Aksu
Starring Turan Ozdemir
Music by Baba Zula
Cinematography Sedat Karadeniz
Editing by Yıldız Uysal, Figen Erdöş
Release date(s) November 24, 2006
Running time 100 min.
Language Turkish

Ice Cream, I Scream (Turkish: Dondurmam Gaymak) is an award-winning 2006 Turkish comedy film written and directed by Yüksel Aksu. Only one professional actor, Turan Özdemir, starred in the movie, the rest being residents of Muğla, Turkey.

The film was Turkey's official submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 79th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.[1][2]

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Plot

Ali, who is ice cream salesman in Mugla, tries to survive in the face of fierce competition from the big ice cream brands. While trying to promote his ice cream, he tours the village with his brand new yellow ice cream motorbike. However the naughty boys of the town who are chasing him to have free ice cream, steal the motorbike while he is away. Still repaying the debts for the loan on his motorbike, Ali becomes furious and accuses the big ice cream brands of stealing the car in order to destroy him. He starts investigating the theft of his motorbike asking one by one to the sellers of the big brands, while all along the naughty boys are enjoying their free ice cream.

Awards

After gaining a submission for the Academy Awards,[3] Dondurmam Gaymak was chosen to be the opening movie at the Queens Film Festival,[4] as well as winning two Queens Spirit awards including Best Comedy Director for Yüksel Aksu[5] and Best Comedy Film.[5] It won a Special Jury award at Istanbul International Film Festival,[6][7] and won an Ankara Movie Awards for Special Jury Awards,[6] People's Jury Awards and Best Actor (Turan Özdemir).[8]

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References

  1. ^ Sneider, Jeff (2006-10-19). "Oscar race counts 61 countries". Variety. http://www.variety.com/awardcentral_article/VR1117952315.html?nav=news&categoryid=1985&cs=1. Retrieved 2008-06-22. 
  2. ^ "Foreign language Oscar nominees announced". The New Zealand Herald. 2007-01-17. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/location/story.cfm?l_id=34&objectid=10419560. Retrieved 2008-06-22. 
  3. ^ "2007 Foreign Language Oscar: European submissions". http://european-films.net/content/view/401/52/. Retrieved 2007-09-02. 
  4. ^ "Queens International Film Festival 2006 Schedule of Event". http://www.queensfilmfestival.com/content/view/274/93/. Retrieved 2007-09-02. 
  5. ^ a b "Queens International Film Festival 2006 Nominees and Winners". http://www.queensfilmfestival.com/content/view/286/97/. Retrieved 2007-09-02. 
  6. ^ a b http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816150/awards
  7. ^ "25. Uluslararası İstanbul Film Festivali Ödülleri" (in Turkish). http://www.iksv.org/film/film.asp?cid=184. Retrieved 2007-09-02. 
  8. ^ "Festival’in Kazananları Belli Oldu" (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 2007-08-09. http://web.archive.org/web/20070809124031/http://www.filmfestankara.org.tr/odul.htm. Retrieved 2007-09-02. 

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