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Winter Sleep
Why this pick
Ceylan again pairs patient, novelistic conversations with a wintry Anatolian landscape, probing pride, money and family resentments with the same unhurried moral complexity.
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MOVIE2018 3h 8m FRA
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About Dry Grasses
Why this pick
Its expansive rural setting, literary dialogue and ambivalent teacher protagonist extend the reflective, sharply observed examination of disappointment and self-justification in The Wild Pear Tree.
03
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Why this pick
A nocturnal Anatolian search becomes a patient study of men talking around guilt, status and private sorrow, carried by Ceylan’s precise landscapes and accumulating tension.
04
Distant
Why this pick
This quieter Ceylan chamber piece shares the uneasy homecoming dynamic: two men’s failed attempts at connection unfold through silences, cramped interiors and wintery urban solitude.
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The Return
Why this pick
Its stark landscapes and father-son confrontation offer a similarly grave, visually controlled inquiry into inheritance, masculinity and the emotional debts children carry.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Sinan is passionate about literature and has always wanted to be a writer. Returning to the village where he was born, he pours his heart and soul into scraping together the money he needs to be published, but his father’s debts catch up with him.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Abdurrahman Tutar
Seydi
Bennu Yıldırımlar
Asuman
Hazar Ergüçlü
Hatice
Serkan Keskin
Süleyman
Tamer Levent
Recep
Ahmet Rıfat Şungar
Ali Riza
Öner Erkan
İmam Nazmi
Özay Fecht
Hayriye