Climates Turkey
2006, 101min.
Prod.: Zeynep Özbatur, Script/Dir.: Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Dir. of Phot.: Gökhan Tiryaki, Sound: Ismail Karadas, Edit: Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ayhan Ergürsel.
Cast: Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Nazan Kirilmis, Mehmet Eryilmaz.
Man was made to be happy for simple reasons and unhappy for even simpler ones ' just as he is born for simple reasons and dies for even simpler ones. Isa and Bahar are two lonely figures dragged through the ever-changing climate of their inner selves in pursuit of a happiness that no longer belongs to them.
Awards
Cannes IFF, 2006 (FIPRESCI Prize); Antalya FF, 2006 (Best Director, Best Editing, Best Supporting Actress, Best Sound, Best Laboratory); The South FF, Norway, 2006 (FIPRESCI Prize, Oslo Cinema Award), The World FF, Thailand, 2006 (Best Cinematography), Bastia FF, Corsica, 2006 (Special Jury Prize), Black Night FF, Estonia, 2006 (Best Director, Don Quijote Award), Istanbul FF, 2007 (Best Film, People's Choice Award).
| Ceylan, Nuri Bilge  Nuri Bilge Ceylan (born 1959, Istanbul)
Director and photographer. After graduating from Electrics and Electronics Engineering Department of Bosphorus University, Istanbul, he studied Film Making for two years at Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul. In Cannes-2003 his Uzak (Distant) won the Grand Prize of the Jury and The Best Actor Prize (Muzaffer Ozdemir & Emin Toprak). In Cannes-2004 Ceylan was awarded the France Culture Award as the Foreign Cineaste of the Year.
Filmography
Cocoon (1995, short), The Small Town (1997), Clouds of May (1999), Distant (2002), Climates (2006).
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