Yesim Ustaoglu
Date of Birth: 18 Nov 1960
Country: Turkey
Biography: Yeşim Ustaoğlu (born 18 November 1960) is a Turkish filmmaker and screenwriter.
Total Credits at Criticker: 2 (Actor), 7 (Director), 4 (Writer)
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Mehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from the village Tire, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. Due to a strange set of events, he is mistaken for a Kurd, imprisoned, and brutally beaten. Upon his release a week later, he becomes an outcast marked as a Kurd, losing his apartment, his job, and eventually his girl friend, Arzu.
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When three forty-something-year-old siblings in Istanbul receive a call one night that their ageing mother has disappeared from her home on the Western Black Sea Coast of Turkey, the three set out to find her, momentarily setting aside their problems. As the siblings come together, the tensions between them quickly become apparent, like Pandora's box spilling open... (sansebastienfestival.com)
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ARAF is the story of Zehra and Olgun whose lives are caught in a vacuum! The world in which they live and work is a place of throwaway culture and constant change. They too are waiting for a chance to change and escape from their empty, monotonous lives. (imdb)
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Clair-Obscur is the psychological dance of two women who are deprived of and distanced from their natural right to mature and discover themselves, to love and be loved, and to sustain a real relationship of their choosing. The social cost of these psychological wounds reverberates from micro to macro levels throughout society, rotting it from within. (Unafilm)
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