Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Nuri Bilge Ceylan was born on 26 January 1959 in Bakırköy, Istanbul, and spent much of his childhood in Yenice, in Çanakkale province, where his father came from. He studied engineering at Boğaziçi University, then cinema at Mimar Sinan, and first became known as a photographer. After a short film shown at Cannes in 1995, he made his first feature film in 1997. A multiple prizewinner at Cannes, he received the Palme d'Or there in 2014.

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• CinemaMayıs SıkıntısıNuri Bilge Ceylan · 1999Cinema