Movies: Şebnem Doğruer

A triptych of literary adaptations explores past, present and future in rural Turkey. “Düne Özlem” (from Hulki Aktunç’s Bir Yergöstericinin Hayatı): A once-famed traveling critic returns after years to the cinema that launched his career—and finds i...

Lost his father and then his mother when he was very young, Osman lives with his grandmother. His speech disorder isolates him more and more in the small town he lives and his school. One day he receives a box from his father’s bibliopole....

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