Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideTurkish filmmaker Ceyda Torun and her cinematographer Charlie Wuppermann must have the patience of saints to make this enchanting new documentary of theirs, as they stalked and trailed what seemed like thousands of cats that roam the streets of Istanbul for the best part of two months. What had originally enticed Torun, a native of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis sobering tale of five orphaned adolescent Turkish girl starts on a high note as they are having fun playing on the beach with their male classmates celebrating that the school term has just ended and the summer break is about to start. Their euphoria quickly disappears when they get home and are confronted by their … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn the dead of night, a group of 10 men, including a police commissioner, his Arab driver, a prosecutor, a doctor, diggers and two self confessed killers drive through the desolate steppes of the Anatolian countryside, and the empty winding roads are only lit by the headlights of their convoy. They are searching for a … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe third part of Turkish-German filmmaker Fatih Akin’s trilogy ‘Love, Death and the Devil’ is a slow-winding powerful globe-trotting epic that follows Nazaret Manoogian (French actor Tahar Rahim) an Armenian blacksmith on his journey to reunite with his family after war has torn them apart. It starts in 1915 when the Turkish Army carry out … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideTurkish auteur filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s latest masterful epic is set in the steppes of Cappadocia on the desolate plains of Anatolia, which are heart-stoppingly beautiful. Some of the ancient caves carved into the side of this mountainous terrain have been converted into a Hotel by Aydin, a local landowner retired from acting. It’s the … Continue reading