Thursday – Sunday, November 8-11
Turkish Film Series
5pm
Climates
(Beynelmilel, Sirri Sureyya Onder & Muharrem Gulmez , Turkey, 106 min., 35mm, 2006)
Winner – Fipresci Award – 2006 Cannes Film Festival
Beautifully and meticulously observed, Climates poetically uses landscape to reflect loneliness, loss and the often-elusive nature of happiness. During a sweltering summer vacation, the relationship between middle-aged professor Isa and his younger girlfriend Bahar brutally implodes. Back in Istanbul that fall, Isa rekindles a torrid affair with a previous lover. But when he learns that Bahar has left the city for a job in the snowy East, he follows her there to win her back.
7pm
The Borrowed Bride
(Egreti Gelin, Atif Yilmaz, Turkey/Greece , 119 min., 35mm, 2005)
A moving historical drama set in the 1920's, Emine becomes the “borrowed bride” of the mayor's son Ali and under strict rules prepares him for marriage. The pair fall in love and though she tries to keep the borrowed brides' code, he defiantly refuses his families' marriage plans. Atif Yilmaz's 119th and last film before he died caused controversy in Turkey starting fierce debate on whether the tradition of borrowed brides even existed.
9h30pm
Crossing the Bridge: The Sounds of Istanbul
(Fatih Akin, Germany/Turkey, 90 min., 35mm, 2005)
Alexander Hacke, of the German avant-garde band Einstürzende Neubauten travels Istanbul with a complete mobile recording studio to capture the exotic sounds and musical diversity, ranging from modern electronic sounds, rock and hip-hop, right down to classical “Arabesque” music. Fatih Akin, director of Head-On accompanies him with his camera for a lively portrait of Istanbul's music scene.
