The Cinematic Landscapes of Nuri Bilge Ceylan

March 24–April 17, 2016

Discover the complex and subtle films of Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan, "one of the most important auteurs working today" (NY Times), including his latest, the Palme d'Or recipient Winter Sleep.

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  • Distant

  • Once upon a Time in Anatolia

  • Distant

  • The Small Town

  • Three Monkeys

  • Winter Sleep

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  • Past
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Past Films

  • Winter Sleep

    Nuri Bilge Ceylan
    Turkey, 2014
    Thursday, March 24 7 PM

    Inspired by Dostoevsky, Ibsen, and Chekhov, Ceylan’s slow-burning masterpiece of fear and self-loathing among a well-off family in breathtakingly beautiful Cappadocia won the Palme d’Or at Cannes. 

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  • The Small Town

    Nuri Bilge Ceylan
    Turkey, 1997
    Saturday, March 26 6 PM

    Ceylan’s feature debut is a wistful look at village life and the structures that bind communities and family together, based on an autobiographical story by the director’s sister. With short Cocoon.

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  • Clouds of May

    Nuri Bilge Ceylan
    Turkey, 1999
    Sunday, March 27 6:30 PM

    Ceylan’s second film—in some ways a “making of” his first—tells the story of a filmmaker who returns to the village of his childhood to scout locations for a new project.

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  • Distant

    Nuri Bilge Ceylan
    Turkey, 2002
    Saturday, April 2 8 PM

    Winner of the Cannes Grand Jury Prize

    Introduced by Deniz Göktürk
    A lonely photographer haunts the windswept streets of Istanbul, until the arrival of a small-town cousin interrupts—or compounds—his solitude.

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  • The Small Town

    Nuri Bilge Ceylan
    Turkey, 1997
    Sunday, April 3 4:30 PM

    Ceylan’s feature debut is a wistful look at village life and the structures that bind communities and family together, based on an autobiographical story by the director’s sister. With short Cocoon.

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  • Climates

    Nuri Bilge Ceylan
    Turkey, 2006
    Friday, April 8 8:30 PM

    The insecurities of the modern male get a fitting dissection in Ceylan’s study of a disintegrating relationship between a self-centered academic and a television producer. “Subtle, substantial, and sublimely beautiful” (Time Out London).

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  • Clouds of May

    Nuri Bilge Ceylan
    Turkey, 1999
    Saturday, April 9 8:15 PM

    Ceylan’s second film—in some ways a “making of” his first—tells the story of a filmmaker who returns to the village of his childhood to scout locations for a new project.

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  • Once upon a Time in Anatolia

    Nuri Bilge Ceylan
    Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2011
    Sunday, April 10 6:30 PM

    A police procedural unspools across the Turkish steppes in Ceylan’s Cannes Grand Prix winner. “Both beautiful and beautifully observed, with a delicate touch and flashes of humor and horror” (NY Times).

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  • Distant

    Nuri Bilge Ceylan
    Turkey, 2002
    Saturday, April 16 6 PM

    Winner of the Cannes Grand Jury Prize

    Introduced by Deniz Göktürk
    A lonely photographer haunts the windswept streets of Istanbul, until the arrival of a small-town cousin interrupts—or compounds—his solitude.

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  • Three Monkeys

    Nuri Bilge Ceylan
    Turkey/France/Italy, 2008
    Saturday, April 16 8:30 PM

    A conniving politician hits and kills a pedestrian, then bribes his chauffeur to take the fall, in this “psychologically suspenseful, spare, and contemplative neo-noir” (LA Times) that won Ceylan Best Director at Cannes.

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  • Winter Sleep

    Nuri Bilge Ceylan
    Turkey, 2014
    Sunday, April 17 2:30 PM

    Inspired by Dostoevsky, Ibsen, and Chekhov, Ceylan’s slow-burning masterpiece of fear and self-loathing among a well-off family in breathtakingly beautiful Cappadocia won the Palme d’Or at Cannes. 

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