Council on Middle East Studies at the MacMillan Center: “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia”

Event time: 
Thursday, December 4, 2014 - 6:30pm
Location: 
Luce Hall, Auditorium See map
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06520
Event description: 

The Council on Middle East Studies at the MacMillan Center presents a film screening: 

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia”

Winner of the Grand Prize at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is the new film from the celebrated director of Climates and Distant. In the dead of night, a group of men – among them, a police commissioner, a prosecutor, a doctor and a murder suspect – drive through the Anatolian countryside, the serpentine roads and rolling hills lit only by the headlights of their cars. They are searching for a corpse, the victim of a brutal murder. The suspect, who claims he was drunk, can’t remember where he buried the body. As night wears on, details about the murder emerge and the investigators’ own secrets come to light. In the Anatolian steppes nothing is what it seems; and when the body is found, the real questions begin.

Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey, 2011).  In Turkish with English subtitles

After film discussion with Etem Erol, Ozgen Felek and Nese Arslan, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University

 

Admission: 
Free
Open to: 
General Public