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Can’t Sleep While the Moon is Rising (Turkish: Ay büyürken uyuyamam) is a 2011 Turkish drama film, written and directed by Şerif Gören based on the novel of the same name by Necati Cumalı, featuring Ayça Bingöl as a single mother of two daughters who has to put up with pressure and negative treatment from the townsfolk in a seemingly tranquil, modern and peaceful town on Turkey’s Aegean coast. The film went on nationwide general release across Turkey on December 9, 2011. —Türk Sineması

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Şerif Gören

Şerif Gören (born 1944 in Xanthi, Greece) is a Turkish film director. Aside from important films under his own signature, he is also the winner of the Palme d’Or (“Golden Palm”) award in Cannes Film Festival in 1982 for the film Yol, which he had directed on behalf of Yılmaz Güney, who at the time was serving a prison sentence for the murder of Yumurtalık judge Safa Mutlu. Gören started his film career as an editor, and then continued as an assistant director. He directed his first film “Endişe” (The Anxiety) in 1974. He directed more than thirty films in a decade. —Wikipedia 

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