İki Genç Kız


İki Genç Kız is a Golden Orange awarded 2005 Turkish film by Kutluğ Ataman, produced by Gulen Guler Hurley, starring Feride Çetin, Vildan Atasever and Hülya Avşar. The book is based on Perihan Mağden's novel İki Genç Kızın Romanı, and it follows the novel's plot closely although it diverges from it at some points.
The film is about two teenage girls, Behiye and Handan, with contrasting characteristics and backgrounds, forming a close relationship with sexual implications. As they become closer and closer the relationship becomes more fragile, and the impossibility of the survival of their relationship becomes more evident over time. Economic, social, psychological, and sexual problems come in the way.
Replikas, an experimental band provided the music for the film, and the music was published in 2006 with Film Müzikleri album.

Awards

The movie won 14 prizes in 2005 at Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival which gives out the most prestigious film awards in Turkey. Kutluğ Ataman was also awarded the Best Director in Istanbul International Film Festival for this film.