The Wild Pear Tree
Film critic Gérard Grugeau passed away just a few months ago. We'll be showing a few films that were significant to this figure, who was well-known for championing emerging filmmakers and was beloved by fellow film writers.
Sinan is passionate about literature and has always wanted to be a writer. Returning to the village where he was born, he pours his heart and soul into scraping together the money he needs to be published, but his father’s debts catch up with him.
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a Turkish filmmaker and photographer. He developed a strong interest in photography, visual arts and classical music during his stay at the Bosphorus University. There, he also reinforced his love of cinema, born years earlier in the darkened halls of the Istanbul Cinematheque. At the end of 1993, he shoots his first film, Koza, which became the first Turkish short film selected for the Cannes Film Festival in 1995. He takes care of several technical jobs himself on his first three feature films (image, sound design, editing, writing, directing, producing). With Distant (2003), he won the Grand Prix and the Best Actor Award for the two leads at Cannes in 2003, making Ceylan an internationally recognized director. Tthe film then became the most awarded film in the history of Turkish cinema. His next films all won awards at Cannes and he won the Palme d’Or for Winter Sleep (2014), his seventh feature film.
Bio: Sphère Films
Photo: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
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