Diving deep into the cinema of Turkey in preparation for a trip there in January 2010.
ISSIZ ADAM (THE DESERTED MAN)- 2008 directed by Cagan Irmak — This movie is about a womanizer living in Istanbul and his adventures with love and lust along the way. GUNESI GORDUM (I SAW THE SUN)- 2009 directed by Mahsun Kirmizigul — This movie touches a lot of social problems in Turkey. Shows the despair of a family who has two sons one in the Turkish military and the other one in a terrorist separatist group fighting the military, the problem of immigration because of the terrorists from the eastern part of Turkey, the problems of being a transexual in Turkey, and the problems a family who had to migrate to Europe from Turkey. DELI DELI OLMA (DONT BE CRAZY)-2009 directed by Murat Saracoglu — This movie is about a Russian man whose family migrated to a small village in Turkey to escape from the suppression in Russia in the 1930s. Its about the love affair he had with a Turkish girl that he couldn’t be with because of the family pressure. BEYAZ MELEK (THE WHITE ANGEL)- 2007 directed by Mahsun Kirmizigul — This movie is about the difference in relationships towards the elders in the city and in the villages of Turkey. We see a villager who came to Istanbul seeking treatment for his father and he sees a retirement home which is filled with elders who are abandoned by their spouse and his journey to his village with them.
