THE WILD PEAR TREE Turkey-France-Germany-Bulgaria-Macedonia-Bosnia-Sweden-Qatar, 2018, 188 min, color
For some, the countryside is a place of exile where all hopes ultimately merge with solitude. A boundless place of exile where all hopes and dreams merge with despair like the coinciding destinies of fathers and sons...
Sinan is passionate about literature and has always wanted to be a writer. Returning to the village where he was born, he pours his heart and soul into scraping together the money he needs to be published, but his father’s debts catch up with him...
„The Wild Pear Tree“ is a gentle, humane, beautifully made and magnificently acted movie from the Turkish film-maker and former Palme d'Or winner Nuri Bilge Ceylan: garrulous, humorous and lugubrious in his unmistakable and very engaging style. It’s an unhurried, elegiac address to the idea of childhood and your home town – and how returning to both has a bittersweet savour.“
Peter Bradshow, The Guardian
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a Turkish director born in 1959 in Istanbul. He graduated from the Engineering Department of Bosphorus University and then studied filmmaking at “Mimar Sinan” University, Istanbul. His short film “Cocoon” was followed by three feature-length works that constituted his “provincial trilogy” – “Small Town”, “Clouds of May” and “Distant”. “Small Town” was screened at festivals around the world and won numerous awards. “Distant” won many national and international awards, including the Grand Jury Prize and the Best Actor Award at the Cannes IFF. In 2006 he made “Climates”, which won the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes IFF 2006. Ceylan’s “Three Monkeys” took the Best Director Award at Cannes IFF 2008. His next film “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia” (2011) won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes 2011 and was screened at 16th Sofia Film Festival. “Winter Sleep” won the “Golden Palm”.
1995 Cocoon – short
1997 The Town (Kasaba)
1999 Clouds of May (Mayis Sikintisi)
2002 Distant (Uzak)
2006 Climates (Iklimler)
2008 Three Monkeys (Üç Maymun)
2011 Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da)
2014 Winter Sleep (Kis Uykusu)
2018 The Wild Pear Tree (Ahlat Ağacı)
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