BFI LFF 2021: Brother’s Keeper (2021) (Okul tirasi)
★★★☆☆
Brother’s Keeper: Ferit Karaha’s tragic tale of boarding school brutality to Kurdish boys in snowy eastern Turkey.
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BFI LFF 2021: ROUNDUP
★★★★☆
BFI LFF 2021: Roundup
The Wild Pear Tree (2018)
★★★★★
The Wild Pear Tree (Ahlat Agaci) is a masterpiece by Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
Mustang (2015)
★★★☆☆
A stirring portrait of female freedom denied, Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Mustang is a deeply personal story with a profound political resonance.
Winter Sleep / Kis uykusu (2014)
★★★★★
Winner of the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Winter Sleep is a devastating portrait of a man who tries to do good but radiates an icy chill.
London Film Festival 2014: Winter Sleep / Kis uykusu
Winter Sleep [rating=5] by Mark Wilshin With a credit list that includes Chekhov, Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky and Voltaire, it’s no surprise that Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s…
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Once Upon A Time In Anatolia / Bir Zamanlar Anadolu’da (2011)
★★★★☆
An epic night-time police investigation, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Once Upon A Time In Anatolia exhumes an inconvenient truth from the soul’s darkest recesses.
Bal / Honey (2010)
★★★★☆
The first and final part in Semih Kaplanoglu’s Yusuf trilogy, Honey is a tender portrait of childhood.