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237 articles available in total starting from 24/02/2003. Last article published on 10/09/2025.

Review: Hesitation Wound

Review: Hesitation Wound

VENICE 2023: Turkey's Selman Nacar confirms the extent of his potential thanks to a legal and intimate thriller with a script that knows very well how to hide its hand and of a sharp social realism  

04/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti

Selman Nacar  • Director of Hesitation Wound

Interview: Selman Nacar • Director of Hesitation Wound

“I'm interested in characters who are stuck in between emotions because I believe Turkey is in a similar situation”

VENICE 2023: The rising Turkish director dissects his taut new feature, which is equally a courtroom procedural and a character study  

04/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti

Review: Dormitory

Review: Dormitory

VENICE 2023: Turkish helmer Nehir Tuna’s debut shows two sides of a bad education, all told with compelling force  

03/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti

Nehir Tuna  • Director of Dormitory

Interview: Nehir Tuna • Director of Dormitory

“Coming-of-age stories are my favourite genre”

VENICE 2023: The Turkish director delves into the many nuances of his first feature, a film you’d be a fool to sleep through  

02/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti

Review: A Day, 365 Hours

Review: A Day, 365 Hours

Despite the multitude of approaches and styles employed, Eylem Kaftan manages to send a clear message about domestic abuse in Turkey with her documentary  

16/08/2023 | Sarajevo 2023 | Documentary Competition

Nick Read and Ayse Toprak • Directors of My Name is Happy

Interview: Nick Read and Ayse Toprak • Directors of My Name is Happy

“We were trying to capture the personal impact of gender-based violence on a family”

The co-directors discuss their documentary about a young Turkish singer whose rise to fame was interrupted by an attack from a suitor, and her fight for women’s rights  

05/06/2023 | /UK/Turkey

Nuri Bilge Ceylan  • Director of About Dry Grasses

Interview: Nuri Bilge Ceylan • Director of About Dry Grasses

"What neither time nor culture changes are the souls that are similar everywhere"

CANNES 2023: The Turkish filmmaker delivers some insights into his new film centered on a teacher feeling stuck in an isolated corner of Anatolia  

22/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Competition

Review: About Dry Grasses

Review: About Dry Grasses

CANNES 2023: Nuri Bilge Ceylan helms a new masterpiece in his inimitable signature style, furtively casting an eye over agonising existential indecision with consummate cinematic mastery  

20/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Competition

Ilker Çatak to follow up The Teachers’ Lounge with Yellow Letters

Ilker Çatak to follow up The Teachers’ Lounge with Yellow Letters

The director’s fifth feature, to be shot in Hamburg and Berlin this autumn, will follow a Turkish artist couple who are forced into exile  

21/03/2023 | Production | Funding | France/Germany/Turkey

Review: My Name Is Happy

Review: My Name Is Happy

Ayşe Toprak and Nick Read's film tells the incredible story of Multu, a Kurdish teenager with a golden voice who miraculously survives an attempted murder  

20/03/2023 | FIFDH Geneva 2023

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