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Introduction
Turkey, France, Germany / 2023 / 197 min
Director：Nuri Bilge CEYLAN
Samet is a public school art teacher in a remote area of Anatolia. Sick of everything around him, he asks to be transferred to Istanbul. Living in the same boarding house as his fellow teacher, the affable Kenan, he introduces Kenan to Nuray, who teaches English in a different school. But this puts a wrench in the works of the budding relationship between him and Nuray. Meanwhile, the love letters of Samet's favorite student, Sevim, are confiscated by another teacher and her request for them to be returned is not accepted. She brings a complaint against Samet and Kenan to the principal. CEYLAN has once again pushed himself to the limits of his style, creating a fresh masterpiece to knock the audience off its feet with its intense conversations between the characters, the long takes that patiently capture them, and the gorgeous yet harsh depiction of nature. Screened in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, where Merve DIZDAR, playing Nuray, won the Best Actress award.
Director：Nuri Bilge CEYLAN
Born in Istanbul on January 26, 1959. In 1993, he started shooting his first short film, "Koza," which was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in May 1995 as the first Turkish short film ever selected for the festival. On his first three feature films, “Kasaba" (1997), “Clouds of May (1999) and "Uzak" (2002), he took care of several technical jobs himself: image, sound design, editing, writing, directing, producing.... “Uzak” won the Grand Prix and the Best Actor Award for the two leads at Cannes in 2003, making him an internationally recognized director. His next films all won awards at Cannes. In 2006, “Climates" won the FIPRESCI Award, in 2008 “Three Monkeys" won the Best Director Award, and in 2011 "Once upon a Time in Anatolia" won the Grand Prix again. In 2014, his seventh feature film “Winter Sleep” won the Palme d'Or and the FIPRESCI Award. With THE WILD PEAR TREE, in 2018, he returned to the Official Selection in Competition at Cannes.
Schedule
11/22（Wed）17:15 -
Yurakucho Asahi Hall