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| Waiting for the Clouds (Bulutlari Beklerken) by Yesim Ustaoglu. Turkey, 2004, 92 min, 35 mm The misty, isolated valleys of Turkey’s northeastern Black Sea coast form the backdrop for this eloquent examination of the Pontus Greeks’ expulsion in 1916. The film begins six decades later, as aged Ayshe watches her sister die. The woman’s passing causes a rupture in Ayshe’s closely guarded life, and her childhood experiences come flooding back, triggered by elements of the landscape and the face of Mehmet, a neighbor child and her only remaining companion. Cowritten by Petros Markaris (who penned Theo Angelopoulos’s Eleni), Waiting for the Clouds is a moving examination of Turkish ethnic identity and the circuitous route “home.” In Turkish with English subtitles.
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Cast & Crew: Cast: Rüçhan Caliskur, Ridvan Yagci,
Ismail Baysan, Dimitris Kamberidis, Suna Selen, Feride Karaman,
Jannis Georgiadis |
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Filmmaker Bio: Yesim Ustaoglu was born in Turkey in 1960. After studying architecture at Karadeniz Technical University, she completed her master’s degree at Yildiz University in Istanbul. She worked for a number of years as an architect, designer and restoration expert, while making several short films that received critical acclaim. Her debut feature The Trace was screened at numerous international festivals, followed by Journey to the Sun, which won her the Blue Angel Award for Best European Film and the Peace Prize at the 1999 Berlinale, and swept the Istanbul Film Festival by winning the Best Film, Best Director, FIPRESCI and Audience Awards. The screenplay for Waiting for the Clouds, her latest film, won the prestigious Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award in 2003. |
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Print Source: Celluloid Dreams |
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