Iklimler / Climates (2006)
Drama
A dowdy university instructor Isa is an inattentive husband to his younger, TV-business wife Bahar. Self-absorbed and selfish, Isa only communicates in the most rudimentary way, while she, similarly, detaches into crying jags and juvenile behavior.
Starring: Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Nazan Kesal, Mehmet Eryilmaz, Arif Asçi, Can Ozbatur
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Uzak / Distant (2002)
Drama
After his wife leaves him, a photographer has an existential crisis and tries to cope with his cousin's visit.
Starring: Muzaffer Özdemir, Emin Toprak, Zuhal Gencer, Nazan Kesal, Feridun Koc, Fatma Ceylan
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Ahlat Agaci / The Wild Pear Tree (2018)
Drama
An aspiring writer returns to his native village, where his father's debts catch up to him.
Starring: Dogu Demirkol, Murat Cemcir, Bennu Yildirimlar, Hazar Ergüçlü, Serkan Keskin
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Uzak / Distant (2002)
Drama
Translated into English as 'Distant', this bleak and poignant drama directed by Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan reflects on the loneliness and neuroses of modern urban life. Mahmut (Muzaffer Özdemir) is a middle-aged photographer living and working in Istanbul, whose tidy habits and cool demeanour are tried when his young cousin Yusuf (Emin Toprak, who was tragically killed in a car crash shortly after the film was completed) comes to stay with him while he looks for work. Yusuf is a good-natured but insensitive country boy from a poor village background, while Mahmut is a modern professional who is on the verge of a mid-life crisis since his ex-wife's announcement that she is leaving for Canada with her new husband. The two men form an awkward relationship, which is reflected in their inability to communicate with others around them.
Starring: Muzaffer Özdemir, Emin Toprak, Zuhal Gencer, Nazan Kesal, Feridun Koc, Fatma Ceylan
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Kis uykusu / Winter Sleep (2014)
Drama
Aydin, a former actor, runs a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal with whom he has a stormy relationship and his sister Necla who is suffering from her recent divorce. In winter as the snow begins to fall, the hotel turns into a shelter but also an inescapable place that fuels their animosities…
Starring: Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sözen, Demet Akbag, Ayberk Pekcan, Serhat Mustafa Kiliç, Nejat Isler
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Three Monkeys / Üç maymun (2008)
Drama
A family suffers from a major communication breakdown during their struggle to to get through their hardships.
Starring: Yavuz Bingol, Hatice Aslan, Ahmet Rifat Sungar, Ercan Kesal
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Bir zamanlar Anadolu'da / Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
Crime | Drama
A murder has been committed and a man has confessed; all that remains is for him to lead police to the body so they can wrap the case. In the dead of night, two cars and a Jeep carrying the murderer, the police chief and the prosecutor set out to find the burial spot. As the small convoy inches its way through the darkness of the deserted countryside, it becomes clear that the killer can't locate the place where he left his victim. Cigarettes are smoked; conversations occur and refreshments are served in a local village; nothing significant seems to happen. Yet whether we are aware of it or not, small clues are being planted along the way.
Starring: Muhammet Uzuner, Yilmaz Erdogan, Taner Birsel
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
