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Attributes
- Duration 3h 18m
- Type Film
Turkey | 2024 | 198’ | 15 | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Turkish with English subtitles
Deniz Celiloğlu, Merve Dizdar, Musab Ekici
Nestled away in wintry East Anatolia, public-school art teacher Samet yearns to leave the sleepy village for cosmopolitan Istanbul. Further disenchanted when he and Kenan, a colleague, come under public scrutiny, Samet fears circumstances will keep him in Anatolia and his dreams of a new life permanently out of reach. A silver lining is a budding relationship with Nuray, a fellow teacher and firebrand who develops connections with both Samet and Kenan, forcing Samet to confront what he can't readily accept. A visually stunning and deeply empathetic new from the great Turkish master of slow cinema.
A visually stunning and deeply empathetic new from the great Turkish master of slow cinema.
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