Iklimler - Climates by Nuri Bilge Ceylan - 11th Boston Turkish Festival 2006


CLIMATES
Iklimler

Isa and Bahar are an Istanbul couple, just moments away from a torturous break-up at the opening of Nuri Bilge Ceylan's follow up to his much-lauded Distant (Uzak). Focusing then on Isa, Climates becomes a psychological portrait of a profoundly complex and insecure man, but one rendered with gorgeous subtlety. Through the heat of their break-up at a seaside resort to the icy resolution of the relationship in Bahar's snowy Eastern Turkey town, the film has a breathtaking minimalism that speaks volumes through the most minute nuances. The New York Foundation for the Arts called Climates, winner of the 2006 Fipresci Award for the Best Film in Competition at Cannes Film Festival, "the only masterpiece of the festival."
Festivals and Awards:

Cannes Film Festival: FIPRESCI Prize in Competition (2006)
Antalya Film Festival: Best Director, Best Editing, Best Supporting Actress, Best Sound, Best Laboratory (2006)


MOOD MUSIC: Nuri Bilge Ceylan captures the sound of climates
by Chris Fujiwara, Boston Phoenix - January 3, 2007


Turkish Cinema
CLIMATES Iklimler
Written and directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Cast: Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Nazan Kesal, Mehmet Eryilmaz, Arif Asçi, Can Özbatur, Ufuk Bayraktar, Fatma Ceylan, M. Emin Ceylan, Semra Yilmaz
2006, 97 minutes In Turkish with English subtitles
Co-presented with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston


Director NURI BILGE CEYLAN
	Born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1959, Nuri Bilge Ceylan graduated from Bosphorus University with a degree in Engineering and studied film-making for two years in Mimar Sinan University. Nuri Bilge Ceylan made his cinema debut with a low-budget but a high-impact short film, Cocoon (Koza, 1995), officially selected for the 48th Cannes International Film Festival. His first feature film, The Small Town (Kasaba, 1997) brought him 18 international awards, including Caligari Prize in the 1998 Berlin Film Festival. Clouds of May (Mayis Sikintisi, 1999), had its world premiere in the 50th Berlin International Film Festival in 2000 and has won awards in many international competitions. Ceylan's Distant (Uzak, 2003) was named as one of the best films of the decade by the Guardian. Among many others, Distant received the Grand Jury Prize and Best Actor Award in the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. Compared to Abbas Kiarostami, Robert Bresson, and Alan Resnais, Ceylan is described as a true auteur.