Nuri Bilge Ceylan has made it a point to discuss the matters closest to his heart – estrangement and stagnancy of human lives, especially in cities - with a certain intimacy and panache. No wonder, most of his films have garnered awards at Cannes film festival, and the Oscars. An engineer by degree and a [...]

Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s The Three Monkeys bagged the best director prize at the Cannes and was Turkey’s submission to the Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Film. The film further went on to pip the much acclaimed Italian film Gomorra in the race and made it to the Academy’s shortlist for the foreign film category. A magnificent knockout by the Turkish auteur indeed! Mr. Bilge Ceylan is sometimes looked at as the Satyajit Ray of Turkey – incentive enough to give Mr. Bilge Ceylan’s work a shot? How about we find out..

The edge of heaven is about people on the edge of relationships, the edge of breakdowns, the edge of happiness, the edge of misery, the edge of conflicts…walking on the edge of the road less traveled, where hoards of people walk down, oblivious to the those right next to them – disconnected, yet inexplicably related. [...]