November 4, 2014, 7:30 p.m. — Distant (2002)
110 min. Mahmut (Ozdemir) is a cosmopolitan photographer who lives in a permanent funk in fashionable Istanbul; when an awkward country cousin, Yusuf (Toprak), turns up on his doorstep, seeking a place to crash while he conducts a futile search for employment, Mahmut is both grateful for the companionship and resentful of the intrusion. In Turkish; English subtitles. Turkey. Ceylan’s cinema of loneliness achieved international recognition with this, his third feature, which won the Grand Jury Prize and an acting award for its two leading performers at the Cannes Film Festival. With Muzaffer Ozdemir, Mehmet Emin Toprak. Distant
2002.
