The Palme D'Or Winner Winter Sleep

The Palme D'Or Winner Winter Sleep to Have Gala Screening at the London Film Festival 2014

The film features Haluk Bilginer as Aydin, a former actor, who runs a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal, with whom he has a stormy relationship, and his sister Necla who is suffering from her recent divorce.  In winter as the snow begins to fall, the hotel turns into a shelter but also an inescapable place that fuels their animosities…

Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a Turkish film director, photographer, screenwriter and actor born in Istanbul in 1959. His two first features, Kasaba and The Clouds of May were shown in Berlin, but it was Uzak in 2003 that brought him international recognition. Uzak won the Cannes Grand Prix as well as the Best Actor Prize for the two main actors. Each of his subsequent features, Climates (2006, Fipresci Award), Three Monkeys (2008, Best director), Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011, Grand Jury Prize), successfully premiered in the Cannes official competition.