Winter Sleep
Turkey, 2014, 196 minutes, Color, Turkish
2015 Palm Springs FF; Best Actor, FIPRESCI Prize 2014 Cannes FF; Palme d’Or, FIPRESCI Prize
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Screenplay: Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ebru Ceylan
Cinematography: Gökhan Tiryaki
Editing: Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Bora Gökşingöl
Production: Zeynofilm, Bredok Filmproduction, Memento Films Production
Cast: Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sözen, Demet Akbağ, Ayberk Pekcan, Serhat Kılıç, Nejat İşler, Tamer Levent
Aydın, a former theater actor returns to Cappadocia to run the boutique hotel left from his father. Aydın, his young wife Nihal with whom he has a stormy relationship and his sister Necla who is suffering from her recent divorce start living together. As the winter comes, the hotel turns into a shelter but also a place that fuels their animosities.