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'The Market: A Tale of Trade' is a 2008 international co-production drama film, written and directed by Ben Hopkins, starring Tayan Ayaydn as a small-time blackmarket trader in a provincial town in Eastern Turkey tasked with procuring some valuable medicine. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on , has won awards at film festivals in Locarno, Ghent and Antalya, where it was the first film directed by a foreigner to win an award in the national competition.

Production



The film was shot on location in Van Province, Turkey in AprilJune 2007.

Premise



From the films official website: "1994. Mihram is a comic and inventive small-time blackmarket trader in a provincial town in Eastern Turkey. He has many ideas for good business deals, but never enough capital to realise them. One day the hospital supply truck is robbed, and the local GP hires Mihram to find some medicines on the black market. Finally, Mihram has the necessary capital to make a good deal, but he will have to gamble with the communitys money. If he loses, he will be an outcast. If he wins, he will have a good start-up business. But he hasnt reckoned with two things the local mafia, and the inscrutable rules of the marketplace."

Release



The film premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival in 2008. It has been released in cinemas in Germany, Belgium, Holland and Turkey. The UK release was on 16 April 2010 and it has since been broadcast on the digital television channel BBC4.

Awards



*Locarno International Film Festival - Best Actor: Tayan Ayaydn (won)

*Ghent International Film Festival Best Film (won)

*Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival

**Best Film (won)

**Best Actor: Tayan Ayaydn (won)

**Best Script (won)

**Best Costume (won)

See also



* 2008 in film

* Turkish films of 2009

References




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