Tag: Turkish Cinema
Itching for Istanbul: Nuri Bilge Ceylan Planning Summer 2026 Shoot
We are nearing the four-year gap between projects that celebrated Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan typically allows between films so while this tidbit of...
Salvation | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Hysterical Intervention: Alper Gets Overwrought Exploring Tribalism
The land dispute at the center of Emin Alper’s latest film Salvation has all the trademarks of a...
Interview: Murat Fıratoğlu – One of Those Days When Hemme Dies
As we reflect on the year’s best films, it’s also worth remembering those that made a strong impact on the festival circuit but never...
The Things You Kill | Review
A Poison Tree: Khatami Deconstructs the Psychoses of Patriarchy
For his third feature, Iranian American director Alireza Khatami formulates a powerful psychodrama unspooling through the...
2026 Oscars: Murat Fıratoğlu’ ‘One of Those Days When Hemme Dies’ is Turkey’s Nomination for Best Intl. Feature Film
Murat Fıratoğlu's masterstroke directorial debut (winner of the Special Jury Prize a Venice last year in the Orizzonti aka Horizons section last year) is...
New Dawn Fades | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review
Through a Glass Darkly: Keltek Finds Divinity Through Insanity
Sanism might be the term best used to define the trials and travails faced by the...
About Dry Grasses | Review
To Sir, With Ego: Ceylan Waltzes with Narcissism in Captivating Character Study
The filmography of Nuri Bilge Ceylan is characterized by complex examinations of human...
Interview: Selman Nacar – Hesitation Wound
Every few years, a notable new Turkish filmmaker emerges, and in this instance, we find Selman Nacar floating to the top of major film...
Interview: Nehir Tuna – Dormitory (Yurt)
For his feature debut, Turkish filmmaker Nehir Tuna climbs back into his personal space to explore friendship, isolation and the diverging philosophical and religious...
Exclusive Poster: Pondering the Future in Nehir Tuna’s “Dormitory”
Selected as a competition offering in the Venice Film Festival's Orizzonti section, Nehir Tuna's lands a prestige spot to showcase his directorial debut film...
Interview: Tayfun Pirselimoğlu – Kerr
In anticipation of the upcoming 95th Academy Awards, I spoke with Tayfun Pirselimoğlu, whose latest film Kerr is Turkey’s official submission in consideration for...
Interview: Emre Kayiş – Anatolian Leopard
The old adage (and threat) of out with the old and in with the new is especially true in Emre Kayiş' directorial debut. It's...
Brother’s Keeper | Review
School Ties: Karahan Paints a Chilly Scene of Winter in Boarding School Melodrama
The numbing apathy of poverty chained to tireless bureaucracy is met with...
Meeting Point | 2021 Warsaw International Film Festival Review
Nighttime is the Right Time: two unlikely companions navigate a liminal Istanbul in Evirgen’s one-night odyssey
Sometime in the early naughts, a certain type of...
Ghosts | 2020 Warsaw International Film Festival Review
Panoptic prison: Okyay’s wonderfully dark debut puts Turkey under surveillance
Turkish filmmaker Azra Deniz Okyay's directorial debut uses micro-stories to discuss substantial socio-political issues. Titled Ghosts,...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #131. A Tale of Three Sisters – Emin Alper
A Tale of Three Sisters
Turkish director Emin Alper returns with his third feature, A Tale of Three Sisters, a 1980s set period piece. Produced...
Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: Sibel
Our final portrait before we go "mute", Franco-Turkish filmmaker team Çagla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti made their way from Locarno Film Fest into TIFF's...
Saf | 2018 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
This Land is Our Land: Vatansever Presents Caustic Portrait of Urban Gentrification
Politically and economically motivated displacement is at the heart of Turkish director Ali...
