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THE FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER AND THE
MOON AND STARS PROJECT OF THE AMERICAN TURKISH SOCIETY
PRESENT
“THE SPACE BETWEEN: A PANORAMA OF CINEMA
IN TURKEY”
APRIL 27-MAY 10
THE LARGEST RETROSPECTIVE OF FILMS FROM
TURKEY EVER TO BE SHOWN IN THE UNITED STATES
NEW YORK, NY - The Space Between: A Panorama of Cinema
in Turkey
is the largest retrospective of films from Turkey to be
presented in the United States. The retrospective is
produced by The Moon and Stars Project of The American
Turkish Society and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. The
program includes more than 25 films and runs from Friday,
April 27 through Thursday, May 10, presenting award winning
Turkish films from the 1950s to the present.
Program Director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center,
Richard Peña said, “Turkey has an extraordinarily rich
cinematic tradition that, despite the growing importance of
that country on the world stage, has remained largely
unknown to even the most dedicated American film goers. This
29-film series focuses especially on the many
socially-engaged works--works often made under difficult and
even dangerous conditions--that offered a counterpoint to
Turkey's prolific commercial cinema.”
Opening night kicks off on Friday, April 27 at 6:30 p.m.
with the New York premiere of Can (2011) directed by
Raşit Çelikezer. The film was Turkey’s first ever entry at
the Sundance Film Festival, receiving the “Special Jury
Prize for Artistic Vision.” This modern day love story,
based in Istanbul, relates a heart wrenching tale of a young
couple faced with infertility, who plot to illegally buy a
child. Their plan appears to be successful until the wife
finds herself incapable of accepting the child as her own.
The Closing Night film, Özcan Alper’s The Future Lasts
Forever (2011), will screen on May 10 and is
the story of an Istanbul music student who travels the
country to record traditional music and confront her past.
Other films chosen for the rare retrospective show how
Turkish cinema, like the country, embraces both the East and
the West. The filmmakers are influenced by American and
European traditions while incorporating ideas from Egyptian
– and more recently - Iranian cinema. Yeşilçam (“Green
pine”) is a metonym for the Turkish film industry, similar
to Hollywood. The name is derived from Yeşilçam Street in
Istanbul where many actors, directors, and crew members were
based. As in Italy and Japan, the existence of a thriving
popular cinema inspired filmmakers to create more personal
works. Several of the filmmakers moved back and forth
between Yeşilçam and more personal projects.
Yeşilçam’s heyday was from the 1950s – 1970s, when 250 – 350
films were produced. The retrospective features notable
films from this era including O Beautiful Istanbul
(1966) by Atıf Yılmaz, a bittersweet comedy about the chance
friendship between a failed, but wise street photographer
and a peasant girl, who has run away to Istanbul to become
an actress. Other films from that period include Metin
Erksan’s Revenge of the Snakes (1962), one of the
first examples of social realism through its depiction of
social injustices and economic hardships faced by a poor
farmer and Dry Summer (1964) the bitter struggle
between two brothers set in a rural farming community.
Dry Summer won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film
Festival and signaled to the film world that Turkey was an
important player on the international stage.
Films by director Yılmaz
Güney, who was one of the most iconic movie stars in Turkey
in the 1970s (later to be imprisoned and forced to go
abroad), include Elegy (1971) depicting the lives of
four smugglers juxtaposed with the quiet determination of a
woman doctor and Hope (1970) where a poor carriage
driver invests all his hope in lottery tickets. One of
Güney’s darkest films, The Road (1982) is a co-effort
scripted and monitored by Güney from prison with the help of
Şerif Gören. It tells the story of five prisoners who are
given one-week leave to see their families. This “road
movie” was smuggled out of the country and singled out for
awards by the London Critics Circle, the French Syndicate of
Cinema Critics and Golden Palm Award at Cannes. Another
director of the Güney school is Ali Özgentürk, whose film
Hazal (1979) shows the despair of rural life when a
recently widowed woman is forced by her in-laws to marry her
deceased husband’s twelve-year-old brother.
The program also presents the city of Istanbul as a
beautiful, yet at times evil place, where dreams collide.
The earliest of these films is Three Friends (1958)
directed by Memduh Ün .It is a story of three young men
living in a dilapidated mansion. They befriend a blind girl
and plot how they will find a way to pay for surgery that
will allow her to see again.
My Cinemas
(1990) features the work of three women: director Gülsün
Karamustafa, writer Füruzan, and star Hülya Avşar. A young
woman looks to escape poverty by losing herself in the
movies. Don’t Let Them Shoot the Kite (1989)
directed by Tunç Başaran is a cult classic. It is a prison
melodrama centered on women in an Istanbul prison from
different walks of life and a little boy who grows up among
them. In Somersault in a Coffin (1996), by Derviş
Zaim, the Bosphorus is the city’s showpiece and those living
on its margins tell their stories.
The literature of Turkey is captured on film with
Motherland Hotel (1987) based on a novel by Yusuf
Atılgan. Director Ömer Kavur’s dark drama of loneliness and
obsession captures a mysterious woman’s promise to a lonely
hotel keeper that causes his mental breakdown. Kavur was one
of the first generation of directors coming from a film
school background. He also directed The Secret Face
(1991) based on “The Black Book” by Nobel Prize winning
author Orhan Pamuk, which received the Best Film award at
the Istanbul Film Festival and the Montreal New Cinema
Festival. Atıf Yılmaz’s The Girl with the Red Scarf
(1977) inspired by Kyrgyz writer Cengiz Aytmatov, is a love
story about a man who leaves his family only to come back
years later demanding his wife and child return to him.
The best Turkish auteur cinema can offer is Climates
(2006) by internationally acclaimed filmmaker Nuri Bilge
Ceylan. Cited as a masterpiece at the Cannes Festival, the
climates of two towns on opposite ends of Turkey are the
backdrop for the tumultuous relationship between the main
characters.
The Space Between: A Panorama of Cinema in Turkey
will feature Q & A’s with stars after the screenings as well
as a panel discussion “The Space Between: The Trajectory of
Cinema in Turkey” to be held at the Walter Reade Theater on
Sunday, April 29 at 2:45PM. All films are in Turkish with
English subtitles and will be shown at the Walter Reade and
Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center (Howard Gilman Theater).
The retrospective is made possible through the generosity of
lead sponsor Chobani and the company's charitable arm, the
Sherherd’s Gift Foundation, as well as other sponsors,
Ramerica International and The Marmara-Manhattan. The
program is also supported, in part, by public funds from the
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership
with the City Council and by a generous grant from Ramerica
Foundation. The organizers would like to extend special
thanks to Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism
and the Consulate General of Turkey in New York.
Tickets are on sale both at the box office and on-line
Thursday. Discounts are available for students, seniors and
Film Society members. Read more about
The Film Society of Lincoln Center.
Films and Descriptions for
THE SPACE BETWEEN: A PANORAMA OF CINEMA IN
TURKEY
OPENING NIGHT
CAN
(2011) 106min
Director: Raşit Çelikezer
Country: Turkey
Winner at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for Artistic
Achievement, Can begins as a contemporary couple,
Ayşe and Cemal, struggle to find a way to conceive a child
together. When modern medicine comes up short, they resort
to illegal means, but the stress eventually causes the
couple’s relationship to unravel. Meanwhile, a single mother
is raising her little boy, Can, in something less than ideal
fashion.
Friday, April 27 at 6:30PM
CLOSING NIGHT
FUTURE LASTS FOREVER (Gelecek Uzun Sürer)
(2011) 108min
Director: Özcan Alper
Countries: Germany/France/Turkey
Sumru, an ethnomusicologist, leaves her university in
Istanbul and sets off for Diyarbakır
in southeast Turkey, where she plans to record the elegies
of those (mainly women) who have lost loved ones in the
ongoing Turkish-Kurdish conflict. Yet the journey has
another purpose, even if Sumru can’t admit it to herself: to
find the man she herself loved and “lost.” Along the way she
meets Ahmet, also wounded by the war, a street vendor who
sells bootleg DVDs. Each comes to recognize the ongoing
grief in the other, and as they probe their respective
wounds they provide an outline of the great wound that
continues to bleed the nation.
Thursday,
May 10 at 8:10PM
CLIMATES (İklimler)
(2006) 101min
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Countries: Turkey/France
Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s NYFF hit Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
was a favorite among audiences with a mournfully droll
Turkish analysis of male melancholy. Ceylan moves
metaphorically and meteorologically from the warmth of
western Turkey to the snowy cold of its eastern border in
this visually stunning tale of a couple’s break-up and the
aftermath.
Monday, May 7 at 3:30PM and Tuesday, May 8 at 8:30PM
CONFESSION (İtiraf)
(2002) 100min
Director: Zeki Demirkubuz
Country: Turkey
Screened at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, Confession
brings a chilling, Dostoevskian feel to its searing look at
the disintegration of a marriage. Harun (Taner Birsel) and
Nilgün (Başak Köklükaya) have been married for seven years.
Their relationship seems uneventful enough, with little
outward strife. Then Harun suspects his wife of having an
affair, and he begins to draw apart from her. Yet he fears
that confronting her might actually bring the affair into
the open—or end the marriage.
Sunday, May 6 at 5:45PM and Thursday, May 10 at 4:10PM
CROSSING THE BRIDGE: THE SOUND OF ISTANBUL
(İstanbul
Hatırası: Köprüyü Geçmek)
(2005) 90min
Director: Fatih Akın
Countries: Germany/Turkey
Crossroads between Europe and Asia, eastern and western
cultures, as well as the former seat of a major empire—it’s
little surprise that Turkey’s greatest city has developed an
astonishingly rich and varied musical scene. Award-winning
director Fatih Akın (Head On, The Edge of Heaven)
takes us on a breathtaking tour of the sights and especially
the sounds of Istanbul: you get to meet and hear Turkish
rappers, Roma jazz musicians and traditional Kurdish
singers, not to mention neo-psychedelic bands such as Baba
Zula and various street performers.
Saturday, April 28 at 10:20PM and Thursday, May 10 at 6:15PM
DESPITE EVERYTHING (Herşeye Rağmen)
(1988) 87min
Director:
Orhan Oǧuz
Country: Turkey
Released from prison for unspecified offenses, Hasan (Talat
Bulut) finds himself unable to reenter or even recognize the
society into which he emerges. Even the most basic
communication with other people is a challenge, and Hasan
increasingly draws into himself. He finds a job as the
driver of a hearse for one of Istanbul’s churches—a
seemingly perfect job for someone trying to disappear in
plain sight—but then he meets a woman and her son, and
together they rekindle some kind of spark in Hasan’s life.
Saturday, April 28 at 5:30PM and Friday, May 4 at 3:00PM
DON’T LET THEM SHOOT THE KITE (Uçurtmayı
Vurmasınlar)
(1989) 100min Director: Tunç Başaran
Country: Turkey
When a woman is sent to prison for drug smuggling, Barış,
her young son, is sent with her, as is the custom in Turkey.
Inside this all-women’s penitentiary, Barış searches for
companionship and guidance—and finds them both in the form
of Inci (Nur Sürer), a political prisoner with whom he forms
a very special bond.
Saturday, May 5 at 5:00PM and Tuesday, May 8 at 2:00PM
DRY SUMMER (Susuz Yaz)
(1963) 81min
Director: Metin Erksan
Country: Turkey
Winner of the Golden Bear at the 1964 Berlin
Film Festival, Dry Summer is the story of two
brothers, Hasan and Osman, whose land contains the water
source that irrigates all the surrounding farms. The land is
fertile, and all is peaceful until an exceptionally arid
summer puts pressure on the water supply. Osman decides to
close down access to the water for his fellow farmers, who
band together to fight him; although preoccupied with his
upcoming wedding, it’s left to Hasan to try to reestablish
peace before it’s too late.
Saturday, April 28 at 1:30PM and Tuesday, May
1 at 2:15PM.
ELEGY (Ağıt)
(1971) 80min
Director: Yılmaz
Güney
Country: Turkey
In this return to territory explored in
earlier films such as Law of the Border, Yılmaz Güney--again
working as director, writer and lead actor--offers a tale
about smugglers working in southeastern Turkey. Çobanoǧlu is
a former peasant who took to smuggling in order to survive,
made notorious by his success in eluding capture. The locals
compete with each other to give information on Çobanoǧlu to
the authorities for a price, while the landowners aren’t
above hiring him for some of their own dirty work.
Wednesday, May 2 at 2:00PM and Friday, May 4
at 6:45PM
40 SQUARE METERS OF GERMANY (40m Almanya)
(1986) 81min
Director: Tevfik Başer
Country: West Germany
Established as a guest worker in Germany, Dursun brings his
young wife Turna from Anatolia. Scared that she’ll get lost
in the big city where she doesn’t speak the language or know
the customs, Dursun demands that she stay home all day,
making Turna’s experience of her new country the 40 square
meters trapped between the walls of their tiny apartment.
Brought up to obey men, Turna tries to adjust to her new
life, her only communication with the outside world being
shared gazes with a young girl who lives across the way.
Friday, May 4 at 5:00PM and Saturday, May 5 at 1:30PM
HAZAL
(1981) 90min
Director:
Ali Özgentürk
Country: Turkey
The wonderful Türkan Şoray stars as the title character in
this internationally acclaimed chronicle of a collision
between tradition and modernity. The son of a wealthy,
respected family seeks the hand of Hazal; unexpectedly, soon
after her marriage, her husband dies. According to custom,
as the deceased family had paid dowry for Hazal, she must
marry the next male sibling—which in this case, happens to
be an 11-year old boy. Trapped by the obligations imposed on
her and her own romantic stirrings, Hazal is forced to
choose what future lies ahead.
Saturday, April 28 at 3:15PM and Thursday, May 3 at 1:00PM
HOPE (Umut)
(1970) 100min
Director: Yılmaz
Güney
Director: Turkey
With Hope, Yılmaz Güney—already a
popular screen actor—became a major director as well,
blending together several of the richest currents in
Turkey’s socially engaged cinema into a work that remains as
powerful today as when first screened. Cabbar (played by
Güney himself) supports his family by driving a broken-down
horse-drawn wagon, but competition from taxis threatens to
put him out of business. At wit’s end, Cabbar starts to
search for a hidden treasure with the aid of a hodja,
a mystic.
Tuesday, May 1 at 4:00PM and Wednesday, May 2
at 6:15PM
JOURNEY TO THE SUN (Güneşe Yolculuk)
(1999) 104min
Director: Yeşim Ustaoğlu
Countries: Turkey/Netherlands/Germany
Mehmet, a recent arrival to the teeming city, is fortunate.
He has a shared room, a possible girlfriend and a neat job
as a diviner for Istanbul’s municipal water system. He meets
Berzan, a street music vendor familiar with the metropolis,
and his moral education begins. Berzan is a Kurd, harassed
by the authorities, and Mehmet’s friendship with him
combined with his own “dark skin” puts Mehmet at extreme
risk. Yeşim Ustaoğlu, an architect turned filmmaker, takes
her characters on a journey east out of Istanbul into a
ravishing and war-ravaged landscape close to the Iraqi
border. Winner of the Best European Film Award at the 1999
Berlin Film Festival.
Saturday, April 28 at 7:50PM and Tuesday, May 8 at 4:00PM
KOSMOS
(2010) 122min
Director:
Reha Erdem
Countries: Turkey/Bulgaria
A
mysterious stranger comes running out of a barren,
snow-covered landscape; hearing screams, he heads to the
river bank and saves a young boy who’s fallen in the swift
currents. Although assumed to be dead, the boy is somehow
revived by the stranger; later, the stranger, who calls
himself Kosmos, is led by the boy’s grateful father and
sister to a nearby town, where the locals greet him as a
hero.
Wednesday, May 9 at 8:45PM
LAW OF THE BORDER (Hudutların Kanunu)
(1966) 71min
Director: Lütfi Ö. Akad
Country: Turkey
On the surface, Law of the Border, is
an action-packed, exciting smuggling drama with a powerful
central performance by Yılmaz Güney. Yet beyond the genre
elements lays a searing critique of social conditions in
southeastern Turkey, where lack of education, joblessness
and general hopelessness have left the population little
choice but to become outlaws in order to survive.
Tuesday, May 1 at 8:15PM and Friday, May 4 at 1:00PM
MOTHERLAND HOTEL (Anayurt Oteli)
(1987) 110min
Director: Ömer Kavur
Country: Turkey
Zebercet (a beautiful performance by Macit
Koper) runs a small provincial hotel that’s seen better days
but still exudes a certain charm. One day, a beautiful,
somewhat mysterious woman from Ankara comes to spend the
night. She and Zebercet engage in some light conversation,
and she promises that she’ll return to the hotel “next week”
for a longer stay. But the week passes, and then another,
and time begins to weigh more and more heavily on Zebercet,
driving him further into his own thoughts and fantasies.
Thursday, May 3 at 5:00PM and at 9:15PM
MY
AUNT (Teyzem)
(1987) 81min
Director: Halit Refiǧ
Country: Turkey
One of the giants of filmmaking in Turkey, Halit Refiǧ
created one of his finest works with this searing drama
based on a screenplay by respected writer (and later
filmmaker) Ümit Ünal. Üftade (Müjde Ar) has long been the
object of men’s fury. In childhood, her stepfather
constantly abused her, and later her marriage descends into
vicious psychological domination. Throughout the years, her
suffering is witnessed by her nephew who, despite his warm
feelings for his aunt, nevertheless feels helpless to do
anything about her condition.
Friday, April 29 at 6:45 PM and Wednesday,
May 9 at 2:35PM
THE
GIRL WITH
THE RED SCARF (Selvi Boylum
Al Yazmalım)
(1977) 90min
Director: Atıf Yılmaz
Country: Turkey
The Girl with the Red Scarf
begins as truck driver Ilyas (Kadir Inanır)
hauls a load of sand and gravel to a construction site;
along the way he meets Asya (Türkan Şoray), a beautiful
young woman from the countryside. Smitten, the couple run
off together. At first all is fine: a son is born, and they
set about creating a life together. But then Ilyas loses his
job, and starts to slip away, drifting into alcohol and the
arms of other women. Asya leaves him and eventually meets
Cemşit, an older man eager to marry her and adopt her son.
But just at it seems life is settling down for Asya, Ilyas
reappears.
Wednesday, May 2 at 3:45 p.m. and Saturday,
May 5 at 3:15 p.m.
MY
CINEMAS (Benim Sinemalarım)
(1990) 100min
Directors: Füruzan and Gülsün
Karamustafa
Country: Turkey
Nesbibe lives with her parents on the outskirts of Istanbul;
the family is poor, and her consistently unemployed father
often takes out his frustration on the rest of the family.
Nesbibe knows that there has to be something more to life,
and she finds it—at the movies. As she recalls her childhood
and adolescence, her own memories merge with scenes from the
dozens of musicals, melodramas and romances she saw to fill
her days and to escape the desperation of her home life.
Sunday, May 6 at 1:30PM and Wednesday, May 9 at 4:15PM.
O
BEAUTIFUL ISTANBUL (Ah, Güzel Istanbul)
(1966) 97min
Director: Atıf
Yılmaz
Country: Turkey
The lovely Ayşe (Ayla Algan) moves from her country village
to Istanbul in the hope of becoming an actress; there she
acquires a boyfriend/manager/director who has other ideas
about how she should use her good looks and talent. One day
Ayşe meets Hasmet (Sadri Alışık),
a grumpy, world-weary street photographer descended from a
good family but having fallen on hard times. Haşmet takes it
upon himself to cure the young woman of what he sees as her
blind optimism, but some of it begins to rub off on the old
cynic.
Friday, April 27 at 3:50PM and Monday, April 30 at 6:30PM
ON
FERTILE LANDS (Bereketli Topraklar Üzerinde)
(1979) 115min
Director: Erden Kıral
Country: Turkey
Three friends decide to abandon their poverty-stricken
village and try their luck in Çukurova, a cotton-growing
region in southern Turkey. Their search for better lives
leads them from construction sites to factories to cotton
fields, as they discover at every turn a system designed for
exploitation and the frustration of their dreams.
Thursday, May 3 at 7:00PM.
REVENGE OF THE SNAKES (Yılanların
Öcü)
(1962) 108min
Director:
Metin Erksan
Country: Turkey
A
landmark in the history of filmmaking in Turkey whose
importance has been compared to that of Open City for
Italian cinema, Metin Erksan’s masterpiece cast a sharp gaze
on the life in the backlands of Turkey’s eastern region.
When the construction of a new house causes a dispute among
neighbors, the fragile social fabric of a village comes
undone, as rivalries, fears, and old, unsettled scores start
to emerge.
Monday, April 30 at 4:15PM and at 8:30PM
SECRET FACE (Gizli Yüz)
(1991) 115min
Director: Ömer Kavur
Country: Turkey
Adapted by Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk
from his novel The Black Book, Secret Face
introduces us to a young photographer who spends each night
haunting late-night Istanbul cafes, capturing on film the
faces he meets in the shadows. The audience for his work is
a mysterious woman, who scans his photographs in search of a
certain face. At last she seems to find it, on a clockmaker
working in a provincial town, and she sends the photographer
off to find him. But soon this woman also disappears,
setting the photographer off on a search that will bring him
into an increasingly mysterious space made up equally of the
physical world and the recesses of his own consciousness.
Friday, April 27 at 1:30PM and Sunday, May 6
at 3:30PM.
SOMERSAULT IN A COFFIN (Tabutta Rövaşata)
(1996) 76min
Director: Derviş Zaim
Country: Turkey
Writer/director Derviş Zaim focuses his
camera on a rarely seen side of Turkish life with the
alternately darkly comic and unsettling Somersault in a
Coffin. Mahsun, unemployed and homeless, steals cars to
keep warm in winter and sponges off his friends for food. A
sympathetic fisherman tries to help by paying Mahsun's tab
at a local café, and arranging a job for him there. But
Mahsun's attention soon drifts to Rumelihisar Castle, a
tourist attraction of this very old neighborhood, and the
fifty peacocks that occupy the grounds.
Friday, April 27 at 9:15PM and Wednesday, May
9 at 1:00PM
STEAM: THE TURKISH BATH (Hamam)
(1997) 94min
Director: Ferzan Özpetek
Countries: Italy/Turkey/Spain
The thin curtain of steam rising from the
floor of a traditional Istanbul hamam (steam bath)
provides an apt symbol for a film concerned with the
permeable boundaries between nations, cultures and people. A
Turkish director and longtime resident of Italy (frequently
featured in our annual Open Roads: New Italian Cinema
series), Ferzan Özpetek burst on the international scene
with Steam: The Turkish Bath. Francesco, a young
Italian designer with a rocky marriage, discovers that an
aunt whom he’d never met has left him property in Istanbul
in her will. That property turns out to be a hamam, and
although Francesco at first plans to sell it, the building,
the city and a budding sexual attraction soon make him
reconsider.
Sunday, April 29 at 4:30PM and Monday, May 7
at 1:30PM
SUMMER BOOK (Tatil Kitabı)
(2008) 92min
Director: Seyfi Teoman
Country: Turkey
In a quiet, beautiful town on the
Mediterranean coast, children play in the ruins of an old
fort, and life goes on at its own pace. But beneath the
surface, at least for the family of 10-year old Ali,
tensions are brewing. His older brother is looking for a way
out of military academy; his divorced uncle seems to grow
more eccentric by the day. Meanwhile, Ali’s mother grows
suspicious of her husband’s increasingly frequent business
trips. And for Ali, something has to be done about the
bullies forever picking on him. These narrative currents
suddenly all come together when Ali’s father suffers a
cerebral hemorrhage, and each member of the family has to
redefine his or her role within it.
Wednesday, May 9 at 6:20PM
THREE FRIENDS (Ũç Arkadaş)
(1958) 90min
Director:
Memduh Ũn
Country: Turkey
Three friends live practically on the streets
of Istanbul, cadging small jobs every now and then to make
ends meet but mainly enjoying each other and the carefree
life. Then they meet Gül (Muhterem Nur), a beautiful blind
girl who has given up all hope. Trying to boost her spirits,
the friends decide to pretend that they’re actually wealthy
socialites who together share a classic villa in a posh part
of town. The ruse works, for a while, but the friends begin
to fear what will happen when Gül discovers the truth.
Sunday, April 29 at 1:00PM and Monday, April
30 at 2:15PM.
VIZONTELE
(2001) 110min
Directors: Yılmaz Erdoğan and
Ömer Faruk Sorak
Country: Turkey
Based on the childhood memories of
co-director and star Yılmaz Erdoğan (recently seen in
Once Upon a time in Anatolia as the police inspector),
Vizontele chronicles the price of change in a small
village in southeastern Turkey. The village mayor seeks to
exert strict control over his electorate; his principal
opponent is Latif, an opportunist who runs open air film
screenings. But the villagers are growing tired of Latif’s
recycled movies, and the mayor decides to break Latif’s
monopoly by introducing the village’s first TV set—which is
when the battle (and the fun) really begins.
Sunday, April 29 at 9:00PM and Thursday, May 10 at 2:00PM
THE ROAD (Yol)
(1982) 111min
Director: Şerif Gören
Countries: Turkey/Switzerland/France
Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, this most famous of all
Turkish films starts in a prison, where those prisoners who
have served at least a third of their time are given a
week’s furlough to go home. Yet, as the film makes
shockingly clear, going outside the prison walls doesn’t
necessarily end one’s personal incarceration. Directed from
a highly detailed screenplay by Yılmaz Güney (who was in
jail at the time) by his close collaborator Şerif Gören,
Yol renders each of its five principal stories with
sympathy and clarity, creating a vibrant, visceral sense of
prisoners’ world, while offering insights into their dreams
and fears. Thursday, May 3 at 2:50PM and Friday, May 4 at
8:30PM
Complete Schedule for
“The Space Between: A Panorama of Cinema in Turkey
Friday, April 27
1:30PM SECRET FACE (115min)
3:50PM O BEAUTIFUL ISTANBUL (97min)
6:30PM CAN (106min)
9:15PM SOMERSAULT IN A COFFIN (76min)
Saturday, April 28
1:30PM DRY SUMMER (81min)
3:15PM HAZAL (90min)
5:30PM DESPITE EVERYTHING (96min)
7:50PM JOURNEY TO THE SUN (104min)
10:20PM CROSSING THE BRIDGE: THE SOUND OF ISTANBUL
(90min)
Sunday, April 29
1:00PM THREE FRIENDS (90min)
2:45PM Panel Discussion: The Space Between: The
Trajectory of Turkish Cinema
4:30PM STEAM: THE TURKISH BATH (94min)
6:45PM MY AUNT (90 min)
9:00PM VIZONTELE (110 min)
Monday, April 30
2:15PM THREE FRIENDS (90min)
4:15PM REVENGE OF THE SNAKES (108min)
6:30PM O BEAUTIFUL ISTANBUL (97min)
8:30PM REVENGE OF THE SNAKES (108min)
Tuesday, May 1
2:15PM DRY SUMMER (81min)
4:00PM HOPE (100min)
8:15PM LAW OF THE BORDER (71min)
Wednesday, May 2
2:00PM ELEGY (82min)
3:45PM THE GIRL WITH THE RED SCARF (90min)
6:15PM HOPE (100min)
Thursday, May 3
1:00PM HAZAL (90min)
2:50PM THE ROAD (111min)
5:00PM MOTHERLAND HOTEL (101min)
7:00PM ON FERTILE LAND (115min)
9:15PM MOTHERLAND HOTEL (101min)
Friday, May 4
1:00PM LAW OF THE BORDER (71min)
3:00PM DESPITE EVERYTHING (96 min)
5:00PM 40 SQUARE METERS OF GERMANY (80 min)
6:45PM ELEGY (82min)
8:45PM THE ROAD (111min)
Saturday, May 5
1:30PM 40 SQUARE METERS OF GERMANY (80min)
(at the Howard Gilman
Theater)
3:15PM THE GIRL WITH THE RED SCARF (90min)
(at the
Howard Gilman Theater)
5:00PM DON’T LET THEM SHOOT THE KITE (100min)
(at the Howard Gilman Theater)
Sunday, May 6
1:30PM MY CINEMAS (100min)
(at the Howard Gilman
Theater)
3:30PM SECRET FACE (115min)
(at the
Howard Gilman Theater)
5:45PM CONFESSION (100min)
(at the
Howard Gilman Theater)
Monday, May 7
1:30PM STEAM: THE TURKISH BATH (94min)
3:30PM CLIMATES (101min)
Tuesday, May 8
2:00PM DON’T LET THEM SHOOT THE KITE (100min)
4:00PM JOURNEY TO THE SUN (104min)
8:30PM CLIMATES (101min)
Wednesday, May 9
1:00PM SOMERSAULT IN A COFFIN (76min)
2:35PM MY AUNT (90min)
4:15PM MY CINEMAS (100min)
6:20PM SUMMER BOOK (92 min)
8:45PM KOSMOS (122min)
Thursday, May 10
2:00PM VIZONTELE (110min)
4:10PM CONFESSION (100min)
6:15PM CROSSING THE BRIDGE: THE SOUND OF ISTANBUL
(90min)
8:10PM FUTURE LASTS FOREVER (108min)
Moon and Stars Project of the American Turkish Society
The Moon and Stars Project was founded in 2002 in New York
as a not-for-profit, all-volunteer organization, dedicated
to promoting greater cultural interaction between the United
States and Turkey, and highlighting the changing face of
Turkey’s arts and culture scene. In 2011, following a decade
of unprecedented arts and culture programs, Moon and Stars
Project became the culture division of The American Turkish
Society, America’s oldest not-for-profit organization,
founded in 1949, seeking to enhance economic, diplomatic,
educational and cultural ties between Turkey and the United
States.
Moon and Stars Project offers year-round programming
including traditional and contemporary programs in music,
visual arts, literature, theater and film, as well as
project sponsorships, grants and scholarships, for emerging
and established artists.
One of its flagship programs is the New York Turkish Film
Festival, which has screened over 200 films in its 12-year
history.
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Under the leadership of Rose Kuo, Executive Director, and
Richard Peña, Program Director, the Film Society of
Lincoln Center offers the best in international,
classic and cutting-edge independent cinema. The Film
Society presents two film festivals that attract global
attention: the New York Film Festival, currently planning
its 50th edition, and New Directors/New Films which, since
its founding in 1972, has been produced in collaboration
with MoMA. The Film Society also publishes the award-winning
Film Comment Magazine, and for over three decades has given
an annual award—now named “The Chaplin Award”—to a major
figure in world cinema. Past recipients of this award
include Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese,
Meryl Streep, and Tom Hanks. The Film Society presents a
year-round calendar of programming, panels, lectures,
educational programs and specialty film releases at its
Walter Reade Theater and the new state-of-the-art Elinor
Bunin Munroe Film Center.
The Film Society receives generous, year-round support from
Royal Bank of Canada, American Airlines, The New York Times,
Stella Artois, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the
New York State Council on the Arts. For more information,
visit
www.filmlinc.com and follow #filmlinc on Twitter.
For the Moon and Stars Project of the American Turkish
Society:
Mary Frances Duffy
The Dilenschneider Group
212-922-0900
C ell: 917-854-6580
mduffy@dgi-nyc.com
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