SYNOPSIS
Aydin, a former actor, runs a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal with whom he has a stormy relationship and his sister Necla who is suffering from her recent divorce. In winter as the snow begins to fall, the hotel turns into a shelter but also an inescapable place that fuels their animosities...
Awards
Palme d'Or, FIPRESCI Prize | Cannes IFF, France, 2014
CAST & CREW
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Director
Producer(s)
Zeynep Ozbatur Atakan
Script
Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Director of Photography
Gökhan Tiryaki
Production designer
Gamze Kus
Sound
Thomas Robert, Lars Ginzel
Edit
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Bora Göksingöl
Cast
Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sözen, Demet Akbağ, Ayberk Pekcan, Serhat Mustafa Kiliç
Production company(ies)
Zeynofilm Bredok Filmproduction Memento Films Production
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Born 1959, Istanbul, Turkey) 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 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), Three Monkeys (2008), Once upon a Time in Anatolia (2011), Winter Sleep (2014).
