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"Blue moon", Romanian director Alina Grigore's first film, won the top prize at the San Sebastian festival on Sept. 25, while Denmark's Tea Lindeburg another first-timer, took best director for "As In Heaven".

Turkey's Nobel laureate in chemistry Aziz Sancar on Sept. 24 attended the top-notch technology event Teknofest, and said that it "made me really proud."

"I came here to promote science and technology in Turkey and the Turkish world. What I saw here really made me proud and encouraged me," he said in his address in Istanbul.