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Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Slow-burning Turkish dramas including Once Upon a Time in Anatolia and Winter Sleep.
Distant · Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
- Born
- 26 January 1959
- Birthplace
- Istanbul, Turkey
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Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a Turkish filmmaker and photographer whose work studies pride, isolation and life beyond metropolitan centres.
Early life
Childhood
He spent much of his childhood in Yenice before returning to Istanbul.
Engineering and photography
He studied electrical engineering at Boğaziçi University while developing his photography.
Career
- 1995
First short
Cocoon screened at Cannes.
- 1997
Feature debut
The Small Town began his feature filmmaking.
- 2000s onward
Festival recognition
Distant, Three Monkeys and Winter Sleep brought major Cannes awards.
Selected work
Distant
Two relatives share an uneasy life in Istanbul.
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
A night search for a body reveals tensions among its participants.
Winter Sleep
A hotel owner’s self-image is challenged by those around him.
Beyond work
Photography
He has exhibited photographic series of Turkish landscapes and people.
Creative partnership
Ebru Ceylan has collaborated on his scripts and appeared with him in Climates.
Sources & photo credit
Life, career and references ↗Biographical dates and identifiers ↗Cannes: Palme d’Or 2014 ↗Photo: Cines del Sur Granada Film Festival from Spain. CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
