Turkish
The Cut
The 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…
Winter Sleep
Turkish 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…
ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA
In 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…
