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For the last two months, Turkey has been busy with festivals and awards and the most frequently named films were Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Three Monkeys and Autumn from helmer Özcan Alper. Three Monkeys has been released in several territories already (its U.S. debut begins May 1st) but Alper’s Autumn, a film that was admired on its home turf and has won several awards in local festivals is still looking to break out on the international scene.

There is some "good" news in last week's "bad" news announcement. Stateside fans of Nuri Bilge Ceylan and his latest film (one of my favorites from Cannes) Three Monkeys as the now defunct New Yorker Films has passed on the picture to film with subtitles specialists Zeitgeist Films.

Audience numbers went up last year and the top ten largest grossing films population preferred mostly mainstream, formulaic homegrown comedies over Hollywood films and even a critical favorites like Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Three Monkeys.

A departure of sorts for the filmmaker (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) in terms of narratives, but aesthetically Three Monkeys matches a style that is unqiue to the Turkish filmmaker.

Set within a tightly knit Bedouin community in Lebanon, Yesterday the Eye Didn't Sleep unfolds less as a traditional drama than as a sensory...