Turkish cinema found international recognition through directors like Nuri Bilge Ceylan, whose slow-burn rural drama Once Upon a Time in Anatolia brought the country a Cannes Grand Prix. Its films are often patient, philosophical, and rooted in landscape. See what Macca made of them below.
Rating: 4.0★
July 1995. The town of Srebrenica, in eastern Bosnia, became the site of the worst mass atrocity on European soil since the Second World War. Over the course of a few days, more than eight thousand Bosniak Muslim men and boys were systematically murdered by Bosnian Serb forces under the
Rating: 4.5★
Released in 2015 and selected as France's entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (a choice that raised a few eyebrows given the film's Turkish setting and co-production roots), Mustang arrived at a moment when European and international cinema was in lively
Genre Drama
★★½ — Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
Genre Comedy
★★½ — Triangle of Sadness (2022)
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