Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Nuri Bilge Ceylan is the most awarded Turkish director in history, and one of the great names in contemporary cinema. Born in Istanbul in 1959, he trained in various ways in the fields of photography and cinema. After working as a photographer he directed his first short film, Koza, which was in official competition in Cannes n 1995. His first feature film Kasaba (1997) premiered at the Berlinale, where he won the Caligari Award. The first in the long list he was to win in festivals around the world with his successive films Clouds of May (1999), Distant (2002), Climates (2006), Three Monkeys (2008) and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011), until 2014 when he won the Palme d’Or with Winter Sleep in Cannes, where he also premiered The Wild Pear Tree.

Festival de Cine de Sevilla