„Anatolian Leopard” awarded by critics at the Toronto festival

Co-financed by the Polish Film Institute, „Anatolian Leopard” received the prize by the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) at the Toronto International Film Festival. The Polish-Turkish-German-Danish co-production was thus in the same row as „Knife in the Water”, dir. Roman Polański.

The picture, directed and scripted by Emre Kayis, is permeated with – as its creator himself says – Kafkaesque atmosphere. It is a story about a lonely zoo director and an introverted clerk who, in order to stop the zoo’s privatization, conceal the death and decide to fake the disappearance of its most valuable inhabitant – the Anatolian leopard.

The situation continues in an absurd way, which delighted the organization associating film critics from over 50 countries so much that they decided to honor it with the same award previously won not only by Roman Polański, but also by Pedro Almodóvar, Jean-Luc Godard, Michael Haneke, Woody Allen and Wong Kar-wai.

The film produced by Tato Film, Adomeit Film and Donten & Lacroix Films was shot in Poznań and Ankara.