The Small Town
(Kasaba)
Screening on Film
Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
With Mehmet Emin Toprak, Fatma Ceylan, Mehmet Emin Ceylan.
Turkey, 1997, 35mm, color, 82 min.
Print source: UCLA
With Mehmet Emin Toprak, Fatma Ceylan, Mehmet Emin Ceylan.
Turkey, 1997, 35mm, color, 82 min.
Print source: UCLA
Told from the perspective of two children, and in four parts which run parallel to the seasons, The Small Town describes relationships between members of a Turkish family as brother and sister encounter the darkness and mysteries of social life, nature, and the adult world. Based on an autobiographical story by the director's sister Emine Ceylan, The Small Town is “a remarkable first feature. ... a strikingly original, vibrantly sensitive portrait of an extended family living in a remote Aegean village” (Variety).
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Cocoon (Koza)
Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
With Fatma Ceylan, Mehmet Emin Ceylan, Turgut Toprak.
Turkey, 1995, 35mm, color, 20 min.
No dialogue.
Print source: Akaya Films
An older couple (played by Ceylan’s parents) live separately as a result of their painful past. When they reunite, their meeting does not go as planned.
