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ABORTION, THE
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Horror from Turkey about a young woman, Eda, who is more than three months pregnant and seeks an abortion. Her doctor warns against it, but she proceeds. Months later, Eda is convinced the ghost of her unborn daughter is out to get her. This can only end in one of two places: the psychiatric ward or the graveyard. Araf isn't pro-life or pro-choice. It's pro-terror! Starring Akasya Asliturkmen and Murat Yildirim. In Turkish with English subtitles. Biray Dalkiran---Turkey---2006---97 mins.
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ANGEL'S FALL
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This tender moving drama set in Istanbul examines how an unexpected meeting changes the lives of individuals. Zeynep, a depressed hotel worker spending her days cleaning hotel rooms and nights fending off an abusive father, has only a fellow hotel employee as her only friend. Residing in Istanbul's other half is the recently widowed Selcuk, who lost his wife and mourns his wife by keeping her belongings close to him. Their chance meeting results in consequences unforeseen for both of them. In Turkish with English subtitles. Semih Kaplanoglu---Greece/Turkey---2005---90 mins.
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BEFORE YOUR EYES
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In this award-winning Turkish drama set in the city of Diyarbakir during the turbulent 1990s, two young Kurds are forced to live on the street after their parents are killed for political reasons. Also known as Min Dit: The Children of Diyarbakir. In Kurdish and Turkish with English subtitles.
Miraz Bezar---Germany/Turkey---2009---102 mins.
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BLISS (MUTLULUK)
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From Turkish filmmaker Abdullah Oguz comes this melodramatic story of a teenage rape victim and her conservative family's response. Her father calls upon her cousin, a soldier, to escort her to Istanbul and end her life to preserve the family's honor. Despite the distressing setup, Bliss evolves into "a lyrical, artful road film" (Chicago Sun-Times).
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BOATS OUT OF WATERMELON RINDS
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In his multiple award-winning debut feature, director Ahmet Ulucay portrays the innocence of childhood and the lure of the cinema for two teens in a small Turkish village. By day, one works for a watermelon seller and the other for a barber. But at night, they devote themselves to rebuilding an old film projector and dream of being famous film directors. At turns heartbreaking and heartwarming, Ulucay's autobiographical film manages to convey universal themes of first love, big aspirations, and the magic of the movies. "Ulucay brings an engaging flavor to the material, aided by an acute sense of period and setting, plus tip-top performances by the whole cast" (Derek Elley, Variety). With Ismail Hakki Taslak, Kadir Kaymaz, Gulayse Erkoc, and Aysel Yilmez. In Turkish with English subtitles. Ahmet Ulucay---Turkey---2004---101 mins.
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CASUS KIRAN
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"If you want a taste of what the Republic serials were like, but distilled down to their essence--and with a lot more near nudity and violence--you couldn’t do much better than a Turkish film like Casus Kiran" (Teleport City).
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CLIMATES
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Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan wrote, directed, and stars in this mature drama as a self-absorbed professor who alienates his younger wife (Ebru Ceylan, the director's actual wife) to the point of breaking. The film's seemingly uncomplicated visual style is not to be underestimated, as it allows viewers to sink into the inner turmoil of the emotionally-unavailable husband and his increasingly-isolated wife. "A terrific movie in the Antonioni tradition" (J. Hoberman, Village Voice). Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize and nominated for the Golden Palm at Cannes. In Turkish with English Nuri Bilge Ceylan---Turkey---2006---97 mins.
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CONDITIONED
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A collection of experimental shorts that reflect the dualities of life in modern Turkey, contrasting the public with the private, commercial with spiritual, male and female, young and old, east and west, and so forth. Includes: The First Ones (Hatice Guleryuz, 2000); Koro (Guldem Durmaz, 2002); Our Village (Sener Ozmen, 2004); On the Thin Ice (Burcak Kaygun, 2008); Delirium (Ethem Ozguven, 2004); Origin (Erkan Ozgen, 2008); A Young Girl Is Growing Up (Ferhat Ozgur, 2003); and Where Blue Birds Fly (Berat Isik, 2008). In Turkish with optional English subtitles.
Turkey---2000-2008---86 mins.
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DISTANT
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Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan has earned critical comparisons to Andrei Tarkovsky and Yasujiro Ozu on the strength of this bleakly beautiful existential meditation on loneliness and ennui. Unfolding at a seductive, glacial pace, the film follows two men, an Istanbul photographer (Muzaffer Ozdemir) and his relative Yusuf (Mehmet Emin Toprak), as they search for meaning in their intermingled lives. Ceylan's images of bleached seascapes and the crumbling industrial zones of contemporary Istanbul lend the film a cold, desperate, and extraordinary beauty. Winner of the Silver Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival (2003) and the Grand Prix and Best Actor Awards at the Cannes Film Festival (2003). In Turkish with English subtitles. Nuri Bilge Ceylan---Turkey---2004---105 mins.
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DUVAR
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Filmed in exile in France, the final film from the director of Yol is a harsh but sensitive recreation of the 1976 uprising of the destitute and mistreated children in Turkey's central prison in Ankara. Nominated for the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival. In Turkish with English, French, and German subtitles. Yilmaz Guney---Turkey---1983---117 mins.
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EDGE OF HEAVEN, THE
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From Fatih Akin, the writer-director of Head-On, comes this hyperlink narrative about the intersecting lives of six Turks and Germans who are working, loving, and dying in Bremen, Hamburg, and Istanbul. "It has a cumulative power, both intellectual and emotional, of its own" (The New York Times). Nominated for the Golden Palm and Winner of Best Screenplay at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. The ensemble cast features Tuncel Kurtiz, Nurgul Yesilcay, Baki Davrak, Hanna Schygulla, Patrycia Ziolkowska, and Nurse l Kose. In German, Turkish, and English with English subtitles. Fatih Akin---Germany/Turkey---2007---116 mins.
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EXILE IN BUYUKADA
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Vanessa Redgrave narrates this fascinating account of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky's years in exile in Turkey. Strong docu-drama re-creations and beautiful cinematography make this a memorable film biography, showing what life might have been like for this pivotal historical figure at this odd juncture in his life. Based on the book The Prophet Outcast by Isaac Deutcher. English narration. Turan Yavuz---Turkey---2000---72 mins.
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HAREM
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Director Ferzan Ozpetek (Steam) explores the history of his Turkish culture in the second film in his erotica trilogy. Set in Istanbul in the early 1900's at the end of the Ottoman Empire, Harem is an epic tale of love, power and fear. The story revolves around Safiye, the sultan's favorite concubine and eventual wife, who has an affair with a eunuch, Nadir. When the empire falls and the sultan escapes without his wife, she is left with Nadir to fight under the new order. Ozpetek mixes mythology with sexuality to creat e a stunning film. Winner of two Italian Golden Globe awards. In Turkish, French and Italian with English subtitles. Ferzan Ozpetek---Turkey/France/Italy---1998---105 mins.
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JOURNEY TO THE SUN
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A young man from western Turkey and a Kurdish rebel living in the underground develop an unlikely friendship while living in Istanbul.
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KIZIL TUG (RED PLUME GENGHIS KHAN)
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A spectacular, long-lost sword-and-sandal epic from Turkey, telling of the fantastic deeds of Genghis Khan in the thirteenth century.
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NURI BILGE CEYLAN: THE EARLY WORKS (KASABA/CLOUDS OF MAY)
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Before Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan won the Grand Prize of the Jury at 2003 Cannes Film Festival for directing Distant, he directed the two award-winning features included here. Kasaba (1997, 85 mins.), or The Town, is a black-and-white family drama told from the perspective of a young brother and sister living in a small Turkish town. The meager budget did not prevent this rich, seasonal film from winning the Caligari Film Award at the 1998 Berlinale. Ceylan's next film, Clouds of May (1999, 130 mins.), which won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2000 European Film Awards, is where Ceylan's favorable comparisons to the work of Abbas Kiarostami began. This minimalist film tells the story of a filmmaker (Muzaffer Ozdemir) traveling from Istanbul back to his rural hometown to shoot a film featuring his family. In Turkish with English subtitles. 2-DVD set. IMPORT. Region 2.
Nuri Bilge Ceylan---Turkey---1997/1999---215 mins.
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OLULER KONUSMAZ KI/ASKA SUSAYANLAR SECS VE CINAYET
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When Turkey delved into ripping off foreign genres, gothic horror and giallo thrills were not spared.
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ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA
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Nuri Bilge Ceylan's very long, very dark, very rewarding police procedural almost occurs in real time. After a murder, we spend almost three hours with several officers, a prosecutor, a doctor, and two confessed killers as they navigate the Anatolian steppe in search of a corpse in the middle of the night. With the morbid task at hand, the men reflect on their own lives and share more than they should with one another. The pace is slow, but the body is found, and the dawn brings many revelations. Though character-driven in the best way possible, Anatolia speaks volumes about Turkey. If you look beyond the frame, you see a country marked by malaise, suffering, inequality, and limited hope. Despite all of this, if you’re looking for a beautifully-shot, serious art film, you couldn’t do any better than Once Upon a Time in Anatolia. Winner of Grand Prize of the Jury at Cannes. In Turkish with English subtitles.
Nuri Bilge Ceylan---Turkey---2011---157 mins.
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RAMPAGE (KORKUSUZ)
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This hysterical Turkish Rambo knockoff stars muscleman Eric W. Sizemore as Serdar, a veteran soldier with more rocket launchers than personality. In the war against terrorist kidnappers, this one-man army is not expendable. Dubbed in English.
Cetin Inanc---Turkey---1986---73 mins.
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SEYTAN
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If Turkish film producers can steal Star Wars and Star Trek, they certainly can lift William Friedkin's classic The Exorcist and make their own jaw-droppingly amateurish version. An audaciously stolen scene-for-scene "remake," this film features incredibly cheap special effects and a Z-grade audio soundtrack that combines for a brain-exploding experience even without an English translation. In Turkish with English subtitles. Metin Erksan---Turkey---1974---101 mins.
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