She made her film debut with Semih Kaplanoğlu 's Egg , which premiered at Directors ' Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival in 2007 bringing her several awards at many film festivals such as Valdivia International Film Festival and Sarajevo Film Festival . In 2008 , she took part in the following film by Semih Kaplanoğlu , '' Milk '' , which was at Venice Film Festival Official Selection . She later worked with Argentinian director Alejandro Chomski in A Beautiful Life , and in 2009 , she was in Bulgarian director Kamen Kalev 's Eastern Plays , which premiered also at Directors ' Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival . Film critic Jay Weissberg praised her performance in Eastern Plays in his article on Variety saying , " All performances are strong , but it ’s Christov and Aksoy who linger in the memory . " Her 2009 Turkish film Love in Another Language brought her other '' Best Actress '' awards at Ankara International Film Festival and '' Bursa Silk Road Film Festival '' . Again in 2009 , she took part in the Istanbul scene of The Rebound with Catherine Zeta Jones and Justin Bartha by the director Bart Freundlich . Her international breakthrough was after she co-starred with Penelope Cruz and Emile Hirsch in Sergio Castellitto 's Twice Born adapted from the novel with the same title by Margaret Mazzantini . The movie premiered at Toronto International Film Festival in 2012 . In 2013 , Aksoy played a Greek girl Eleni in the Turkish movie '' Sürgün '' and in 2015 , Rania in '' Ragion di Stato '' directed by Marco Pontecorvo for Italian TV network RAI
Ankara International Film Festival
21st Ankara International Film Festival
Saadet Aksoy