Plot
After several years of numbly mourning his parents death, 26 year old Selim (Cevik) takes a chance on the US lottery for passports and wins. He decides to sell the family olive grove to raise enough money to live in Manhattan and to break all roots to Turkey, leaving his girlfriend behind. When Selim’s aged grand uncle, Nasuhi (Keskin) returns from Russia after 58 years he asks Selim to visit with him the olive grove of his youth. Before they depart, Nasuhi finds a beaten Russian girl, Olga (Bielska) who was robbed when she tried to sell herself to raise money to continue her own search for her sea faring father. The three of them visit the olive grove and still standing farmhouse, which Nasuhi immediately starts to repair. Upset with his grand uncles enthusiasm Selim quickly finds a developer who buys the olive grove and reluctantly takes title to the farmhouse as well.

Herkes Kendi Evinde 2001 Yerli DVDRip x264 AC3 - HdT.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 46 min
Size: 	1.63 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	720x470 
Aspect ratio:  	3:2
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	2 000 kb/s
BPP: 	0.236
Audio
#1:  	Turkish 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/DE5625560696776/Herkes_Kendi_Evinde_2001_Yerli_DVDRip_x264_AC3_-_HdT.mkv

Language(s):Turkish
Subtitles:English Hardsubbed

The post Semih Kaplanoglu – Herkes Kendi Evinde AKA Away From Home (2001) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Zeynep, Tülin Özen works in a hotel as a housekeeper. But she suffers hell on earth because of her father’s behavior. She only talks to Mustafa, ‘Engin Dogan’ who works in the same hotel and he is interested in Zeynep. She is not interested in Mustafa who is younger than Zeynep, but she is not indifferent to him. While Zeynep is trying to make a bonfire of bad situation, Selçuk, Budak Akalin who lives on the other side of city is a voice technician. He feels guilty after his wife’s death. The suitcase which has his wife’s dresses changes the Zeynep’s destiny.

1.26GB | 1h 32m | 1020×574 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/51CAF5A858FC93A/Melegin.Dususu.AKA.Angel’s.Fall.2005.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language:Turkish
Subtitles:English

The post Semih Kaplanoglu – Melegin Düsüsü AKA Angel’s Fall (2004) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Poet Yusuf (35-38) returns to his childhood hometown, which he hadn’t visited for years, upon his mother’s death. He is faced with a neglected, crumbling house. Ayla, a young girl (17-19) awaits him there. Yusuf has been unaware of the existence of this distant relation who had been living with his mother for five years; He stays by his dead mother’s bedside for a while on the morning of his return. Ayla’s presence alleviates the emotions evoked by death to an extent. But how will Yusuf cope with the guilt that embraces him after the funeral? Will he manage to overcome it? The maternal household’s chattels, and everyday habits, the staid rhythm of the provinces and the spaces filled with ghosts&; The town he once had left to escape all this, re-enchants Yusuf. Yusuf finds out on the day he’s due to return to Istanbul that he is obliged to perform the sacrifice his mother had been prevented by death from fulfilling. Ayla pressures him. Yusuf and Ayla set off for the saint’s tomb, some three or four hours away, for the traditional sacrifice ceremony that his mother Zehra had pledged. Ayla is very excited about this, her first trip out of the small town. An accident is to force Yusuf to confront all that he had been trying to evade. Unable to locate the herd amongst which the sacrificial animal was to be selected, they have to spend the night in a hotel by the crater lake. While the falling snow blankets guilt, they are no longer heading back to that old town.

2.81GB | 1h 33m | 1280×720 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/14413407325C7E8/Yumurta.AKA.Egg.2007.720p.Itunes.WEB-DL.DD5.1.H.264-Cinefeel.mkv

Language:Turkish
Subtitles:English

The post Semih Kaplanoglu – Yumurta AKA Egg (2007) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

This film was inspired by a chapter from the Quran. It is a post-apocalyptic story set in a world where those that survive, are divided between the remnants of cities and agricultural zones. Both of these factions are ruled by corporations and populated by elites. In the areas called Dead Lands, genetically incompatible immigrants suffer from drought and epidemics.

https://nitro.download/view/AC10916079EF5DE/Grain.2017.720p.Trigon.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-Cinefeel.mkv

Language(s):Turkish
Subtitles:English, French, German

The post Semih Kaplanoglu – Bugday AKA Grain (2017) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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In a competition where no title had won widespread approval, a superb film finally arrived, drawing more than a few tears of emotion from Berlin festival-goers: acclaimed director Semih Kaplanoglu’s German/Turkish co-production Honey. The third instalment in the Yusuf trilogy, closes a journey backwards in time that began with Egg, followed by Milk.

It goes back to the childhood of its future poet character. set in magnificent forest landscapes where man’s vulnerability is thrown into relief. Landscapes to which Baris Özbicer’s cinematography does immense justice, in particular through his brilliant work on the play of light – the scene in which the young hero tries to catch hold of the Moon’s reflection in a bucket of water is pure genius.

In fact, in terms of pace, calmness is the order of the day. In this film, whose absence of music allows us to listen to the creaking wood, the little bell Yusuf always has on him and the clock that marks time, what some would describe as slowness is pure delicacy. As the adorable young protagonist (played by wonderful child actor Bora Altas, who appears in almost every shot, to everyone’s joy, for we never tire of watching his shy or curious expressions, often brimming with admiration and love for his father) learns at his father Yakup’s (Erdal Besikçioglu) side, the viewers also learn to contemplate the beauty and richness of a harmonious natural world (the motif of the bee, considered by Einstein as the key to all life on Earth, is not without significance) from which beekeeper Yakup necessarily knows, like a tightrope walker in the hundred-year-old branches, how to draw out the sap and infinite sweetness.

Kaplanoglu describes his style as “spiritual realism”. Indeed, in Honey, the smallest things become symbolic and rich in meaning, so that the film, far from being slow and long, is teeming with life from beginning to end.

The generous beauty of nature that Yusuf learns to grasp, name (despite his stutter, a symptom of his shyness which disappears in his father’s presence) and, in a sense, read (for instance at school, where he tries so hard to earn brownie points by reading fables), can also be found in gestures. Yakup’s affection for his shy child is shown in softly whispered conversations, little presents left discreetly by his bed and the complicit devotion with which the father drinks the glass of milk that the mother tries everyday to get a reluctant Yusuf to drink.

Alas, in the second part of the film, the glass of milk on the table remains full, marking the father’s absence. Yusuf and his mother (played by a Tülin Özen who is self-effacing at the start but returns to the fore after this death) live in silence, as if to spare each other the disappearance of the whole world that Yakup represented. At school, the last brownie point awarded in an act of kindness by the compassionate teacher adorns the little boy’s collar like a mark of mourning. Alone with a grief that is different from adult grief, the child comes to rest his head against the trunk of a large tree.

We hope that Honey, produced by the director in co-production with Johannes Rexin and Bettina Brokemper (Producer on the Move 2006) for German company Heimatfilm, will touch as many viewers as possible.

1.96GB | 1h 39m | 1024×560 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/7415C8BFEE0026E/Semih_Kaplanoglu_-_(2010)_Honey.mkv

Language:Turkish
Subtitles:English

The post Semih Kaplanoglu – Bal AKA Honey (2010) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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A high school graduate, Yusuf could not pass the university entrance exam. Writing poetry is his greatest passion and some of his poems are being printed in various obscure literary journals. But neither these poems, nor the rapidly falling price of the milk they sell, are being of any benefit to Yusuf and Zehra’s lives. When Yusuf finds out about Zehra’s secret affair with the town’s stationmaster he gets disconcerted. Will he find the way to cope with his anxiety for the unknown future, the rapid change that he is going through and the pain of taking a step into adulthood and leaving his youth behind?

3.01GB | 1h 39m | 1280×720 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/414E3A9736DA5A3/Sut.AKA.Milk.2008.720p.Itunes.WEB-DL.DD5.1.H.264-Cinefeel.mkv

Language:Turkish
Subtitles:English

The post Semih Kaplanoglu – Süt AKA Milk (2008) first appeared on Cinema of the World.