Turkish Film Classics in the Tropentheater

Three outstanding Turkish films are playing in January in the Tropentheater in Amsterdam. Featured films are Inat Hikayeleri (Tales of Intransigence), Iklimler (Climates) and Mayis Sikintisi (Clouds of May).
Turkish Film - Inat Hikayeleri (Tales of Intransigence)
Directed by: Reis Çelik
Featuring: Tunçel Kurtiz, Sabri Tutal, Kemal Gültekin, Asli Sulan et al.
Turkey, 2003, 90mins., 35mm, Turkish spoken/English subtitles

With his horse and cart, Daso makes sure that the villagers are able the reach the city during the winter months. Unfortunately Daso and his horses have some competition: a little red bus!
Wednesday 21 January 2009, 8.30pm

Film & Food - Iklimler (Climates)
Directed by: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Featuring: Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ebru Ceylan, Nazan Kirilmis
Turkey 2006, 35mm, 97 mins., Turkish spoken/Dutch subtitles

 

Isa ends his relationship with Bahar during their summer holiday in Kaş, on the Turkish coast. She returns to Istanbul alone. Isa distracts himself from his loneliness during the dreary autumn months with visits to his ex-girlfriend Serap. She tells Isa that Bahar is in Eastern Turkey working on a television series. He wants to see her and travels to the distant, wintry province. Will it be a final encounter or the beginning of a new spring?
Prix de la FIPRESCI - Cannes Film Festival
Tuesday 27 January 2009, 8.30pm Kleine Zaal

 

Film & Food - Iklimler (Climates)
Directed by: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Featuring: Emin Ceylan, Muzaffer Őzdemir, Fatma Ceylan e.a.
Turkey 1999, 35mm, Dutch subtitles

 

This black and white film portrays the experiences of three generations of a family in a small village in Anatolia. The young director Muzzaffer arrives in the village and with his crew introduces the modern world to the farming community. The film is divided into four episodes in which the seasons and the magnificent landscape play an important role. The film begins with an eleven year old girl's melancholy reflections of her assimilation with the people in her environment and moves to grandfather's fireside stories and recollections of the horrors of WWI, his subsequent deportation by the British to India and the years of hunger and hardship that followed.
Wednesday 28 January 2009, 8.30pm Kleine Zaal
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