Best Film
Rotterdam International
Film Festival 2009
Best Film
6th Crossing Europe
Film Festival 2009
Best Balkan Film
Sofia International
Film Festival
2009
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Script
28th Istanbul Film
Festival 2009
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Actress
16th Adana Golden Boll
Film Festival 2009
Best Actor
Jury Special Award
TOFIFEST International
Film Festival 2009
Trailer and synopsis
A wonderful atmosphere from Istanbul, where a peculiar love story takes place: muezzin (person who leads calls to Muslim prayers) Musa falls for his neighbour, the Catholic nurse Clara. The story gets even more exceptional when Musa meets Yakup, who turns out to be connected with Clara. Different ambiances of a multi-religious and multicultural city. This is a story of sensuality, love and grief, growing in the anonymity of a big modern city. It takes place in present-day Istanbul, in Galata. Musa is a beginning muezzin who comes to the city for the first time in his life. He is assigned to work in a mosque and receives an apartment. Upon his arrival he meets his next door neighbour Clara, a Catholic nurse. She takes care of the older nurse, Sister Anna. Excitement and a simultaneously warm sensation emerge from this first encounter. In the beginning, the young muezzin is quite hesitant to confess to himself what is actually happening, but as time passes his love for Clara pervades his life. ~ Rotterdam Film Festival
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Length: 90 minutes
Director: Mahmut Fazil Coskun
Cast: Nadir Saribacak, Gorkem Yeltan, Ersan Unsal
Critics Corner
Review by Jennie Kermode, Eye for Film U.K., 2009. (link to another website)
Review by Neil Young, Jigsaw Lounge, 2009.
Imdb 
7/10 526 votes
