Emre Caglayan

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Emre Çağlayan is a film writer, researcher and independent scholar currently living in Canterbury, United Kingdom. He completed a PhD in Film Studies at the University of Kent, with a dissertation examining the history and aesthetics of slow cinema. In 2016, he participated at the Sarajevo Film Festival's Talents Press programme and continues to teach film courses in the UK. Top Films From Contemporary Film Auteurs: Almodóvar (Broken Embraces), Ceylan (Uzak), Dardennes (The Son), Haneke (Caché), Hsiao-Hsien (A Time to Live, a Time to Die), Kar-wai (In the Mood for Love), Kiarostami (Close-up), Tarr (Werckmeister Harmonies), Reygadas (Battle in Heaven), Van Sant (Last Days), von Trier (The Five Obstructions).

Exclusive articles:

Sweet Country | Review

Once Upon a Time in Australia: Thornton’s Western-inspired Saga of Violent Racial Discrimination Racial tensions in Australian society are given historic treatment in the outback-Western...

Free Fire | 2016 BFI London Film Festival Review

Gunfight at Boston, MA: Wheatley’s Portrait of a Vicious Shootout Massachusetts, 1970s. More precisely, the docks of Boston, where plans for a weapons trade at...

Una | 2016 BFI London Film Festival Review

Breaking the Taboo: Andrews’ Courageous Analysis of an Agonizing Affair A young woman confronts her predator after an interval of fifteen years in the taut...

Porto | 2016 BFI London Film Festival Review

In Remembrance of Loves Past: Klinger’s Quiet Meditation on Romance, Time & Memory Two foreigners stumble upon a chance encounter and spend an intimate evening together...

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2025 Gothams: Studio-Backed ‘One Battle After Another’ Takes on True Indies; Lands Six Noms

In a cinematic landscape increasingly dominated by gargantuan, risk-averse...

Interview: Yorgos Lanthimos & Jerskin Fendrix – Bugonia

There is a chaotic violence at the core of...

Exclusive Trailer: Ashes to Ashes, Toronto to Oslo in Bohdanowicz’s ‘Measures for a Funeral’ (2025)

After premiering at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival...

2025 SODEC Coin for New Projects by Philippe Lesage, Annie St-Pierre & Charlotte Le Bon

Quebec’s SODEC (the Société de développement des entreprises culturelles)...
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