Winner of the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes, the new film from Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Once Upon A Time In Anatolia) is an immersive and provocative drama. Set in the picturesque and striking landscape of Cappadocia in Central Anatolia, Winter Sleep focuses on a small village, half-empty, in the wintry off-season. The film follows a local celebrity, Aydin, an actor who runs a small hotel with his wife, writes a column for the local newspaper,...

Hasret's dreams are haunted by a recurring nightmare from which she disengages every morning. However, what she experiences nightly is not a fictional recreation, but memories. As she returns from her job at a news channel to a flat left to her after her parents' death twenty years earlier, the questions planted by her dreams slowly begin to creep up; did her parents really die in a car crash?

It's the beginning of the summer. In a village in the north of Turkey, Lale and her four sisters come home from school, innocently playing with boys. The supposed debauchery of their games causes a scandal with unintended consequences. The family home slowly turns into a prison, classes on housework and cooking replace school, and marriages begin to be arranged.

An aspiring writer returns home after university and finds his ambition at odds with the deferred dreams of his gambling addict father. As his own fantasies mingle with reality, he grapples with the people and the place that have made him who he is.

Late one night, an array of men--a police commissioner, a prosecutor, a doctor, a murder suspect and others--pack themselves into three cars and drive through the endless Anatolian country side, searching for a body across serpentine roads and rolling hills. The suspect claims he was drunk and can't quite remember where the body was buried; field after field, they dig but discover only dirt. As the night draws on, tensions escalate, and individual...

It's the beginning of the summer. In a village in the north of Turkey, Lale and her four sisters come home from school, innocently playing with boys. The supposed debauchery of their games causes a scandal with unintended consequences. The family home slowly turns into a prison, classes on housework and cooking replace school, and marriages begin to be arranged.

"Kimi zaman öyle durumlarla karşılaşırsınız ki ne yapacağınız bilemezsiniz. Diliniz tutulur. Terlersiniz. Elleriniz terler. Hatta eliniz ayağınız titrer. Bunlar öylesine doğal olan şeylerdir ki... Ama böyle durumlarda kendimizi başkasının yerine koymak yerine onun düştüğü komik durumu eğlenceli hale getirmeye çalışmayı yeğleriz. Ve bu durumda da onunla dalga geçilen bir görüntü ortya çıkar. Arkadaşımız buna...