INTERNATIONAL FILM AND MUSIC FESTIVAL KÜSTENDORF | 17 - 23. 01. 2012.
ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2011
Programme Date:
22.01.2012 Programme Time:
17.00

Synopsis

Life in a small town is akin to journeying in the middle of the steppes: the sense that "something new and different" will spring up behind every hill, but always unerringly similar, tapering, vanishing or lingering monotonous roads...

Awards:

2011    Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prize of the Jury
2011    Karlovy Vary International Film Festival – Netpac Award
2011    Asia Pacific Screen Awards - Achievement in Directing; Achievement in Cinematography; Jury Grand Prize

www.nbcfilm.com/anatolia

Director:
Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Screenplay:
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ebru Ceylan, Ercan Kesal

Director of photography:
Gökhan Tiryaki

Film Editing:
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Bora Göksingöl

Producer:
Zeynep Özbatur Atakan

Production Companies:
Zeynofilm, Production 2006, 1000 Volt, TRT, Imaj, Fida Film, NBC Film

Cast:
Muhammet Uzuner, Yilmaz Erdogan, Taner Birsel, Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan, Firat Tanis

Duration:
150`

Director Biography

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Nuri Bilge Ceylan was born in 1959 in Istanbul. After graduating from Engineering Department at Bosphorus University, he studied Film making for two years at Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul. Ceylan’s short film Cocoon (Koza) was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995. He received many awards with his debut feature Small Town (Kasaba) and his second feature Clouds of May (Mayis Sikintisi). His third feature Distant (Uzak) received the Grand Prix and award for Best Actor at Cannes 2003, and was praised internationally. His film Climates (Iklimler) won the FIPRESCI Award at Cannes in 2006 and received international prize by critics and experts. Ceylan won the Award for the Best Director at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival for his film Three Monkeys (Uç Maymun). Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da) received the Grand Prix at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. 

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