"British Movie Kicks off Turkish Film Festival
British actor Charles Dance is among the celebrities attending the Istanbul Film Festival.
Dance attended the opening ceremony to present his film �Ladies in Lavender�, his first attempt at directing.
A screening of the film formally kicked off the festival. It stars Dame Judi Dench and Dame Maggie Smith as two spinsters in a post-Second World War British fishing village who take in a mysterious young Polish man they find half-drowned on a beach.
�It is my first film as a director and I hope it is not my last,� Dance said."
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