Nuri Bilge Ceylan (born January 26, 1959) is a Turkish director who makes slow-burning psychological dramas.
The Cannes Film Festival never failed to appreciate him and he won prizes with every film that he presented there. Finally in 2014 he earned Palme d'Or with Kis Uykusu.
Filmography
- Koza / Cocoon (1995) Short film
- Kasaba / Small Town (1998)
- Mayıs Sıkıntısı / Clouds of May (2000)
- Uzak / Distant (2002)
- İklimler / Climates (2006) He also played the protagonist.
- Üç Maymun / Three Monkeys (2008)
- Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da / Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
- Kış Uykusu / Winter Sleep (2014)
Tropes
- Author Tract: He admires Russian classical authors and includes the plot elements of their stories in his films. He is fond of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Anton Chekhov
- Compilation Movie: Kış Uykusu is said to be an adaptation of three short stories by Chekhov. Also obvious plot elements from two Dostoyevsky novels are present.
- Leave the Camera Running: One of the directors making slow cinema
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Spiritual Successor: To Michelangelo Antonioni, Ingmar Bergman and Andrei Tarkovsky
