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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (SFF 2012) director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s new film returns to that region to tell the tale of an art teacher accused of impropriety by a student.
Samet (Deniz Celiloğlu) is completing his compulsory service as a teacher in a remote Anatolian village, where the winters are brutal and the monotony overpowering. He longs for a posting to Istanbul. Samet has a particularly close relationship with a 14-year-old female student, Sevim, who one day makes a serious accusation against him. At the same time, Samet is competing with his roommate for the affections of fellow teacher Nuray (Cannes Best Actress Award winner Merve Dizdar, superb). The images are as ravishing as ever, and Ceylan, winner of the Cannes Palme d’Or for Winter Sleep (SFF 2014), once again captures the ambiguous morality and mysterious motivations of humanity with bracing clarity.
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- Program Strand
- Features
- Original Title
- KURU OTLAR ÜSTÜNE
- Year
- 2023
- Classification
- Unclassified 18+
- Country
- Türkiye, France, Germany
- Language
- In Turkish with English Subtitles
- Director
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Producer
- Jonas Dornbach, Kristina Börjeson, Anthony Muir, Alexandre Mallet-Guy, Sébastien Beffa, Maren Ade, Janine Jackowski, Nadi̇r Öperli̇
- Cast
- Deniz Celiloğlu, Merve Dizdar, Musab Ekici
- Screenwriter
- Akin Aksu, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ebru Ceylan
- Cinematographer
- Cevahir Şahin, Kürşat Üresin
- Editor
- Oğuz Atabaş, Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Premiere
- NSW Premiere
- Genre
- Festival Award Winners, Cinephile, Cannes Selected, Middle East
- Company Credits
- Sales Agent: Playtime
