‘Uzun Hikaye’ (Long Story)
İstanbul, 1950s. Ali (Kenan İmirzalıoğlu) is the teenage son of Bulgarian parents who migrated to Turkey during the 1940s and settled in İstanbul’s Eyüp quarter. Ali falls in love with Münire (Tuğçe Kazaz), the daughter of the owner of a local open-air cinema, with whom he runs away and marries. Ali’s irrepressible sense of equality and justice causes the couple, now with two sons, to move from one Anatolian town to another within the course of a “long story” that stretches more than 20 years, into the late 1970s, and thousands of kilometers of railways. Adapted from the book of the same name by Mustafa Kutlu. Directed by: Osman Sınav Country: Turkey Genre: drama Cast: Kenan İmirzalıoğlu, İsmail Hakkı Ürün, Kürşat Alnıaçık, Erkan Avcı, Mustafa Alabora, Zafer Algöz
‘La vie d’une autre’ (Another Woman’s Life)
Marie (Juliette Binoche), 40, wakes up thinking she’s 25. She is the mother of a young boy and is in the middle of a divorce. Having forgotten the last 15 years of her life, she has only four days to win back the love of her life (Mathieu Kassovitz). Directed by: Sylvie Testud Country: France, Luxembourg, Belgium Genre: comedy Cast: Juliette Binoche, Mathieu Kassovitz, Aure Atika, Daniele Lebrun.
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