Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
WAITING FOR THE CLOUDS
Bulutları Beklerken
Synopsis
Ayse, the daughter of a Greek family evacuated in 1916, has kept silent about her true identity. For the five decades that followed, Ayşe and her younger sister remained in Turkey while taking great pains to cover their true origins. When her sister dies, Ayşe decides to travel to Greece.
Synopsis
Ayse, the daughter of a Greek family evacuated in 1916, has kept silent about her true identity. For the five decades that followed, Ayşe and her younger sister remained in Turkey while taking great pains to cover their true origins. When her sister dies, Ayşe decides to travel to Greece.
Our take
Set along Turkey’s murky Black Sea coast, Waiting for the Clouds is a poetic meditation on identity, memory, and the meaning of home. Summoning the ghosts of a traumatic past between two nations, this atmospheric drama offers a poignant look at the inseparability of the political and personal.