Winter Sleep
Presented by Main Street Landing and VTIFF, co-sponsored by 
Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
2014, 196 minutes, unrated, Turkish w/ English subtitles, Adopt Films
Winner, 2014 Cannes Palme d’Or
The screening will be preceded at 6pm by a reception hosted by the Turkish Cultural Center – pastries and refreshments in the Lake Lobby.
This mesmerizing, superbly acted portrait of a wealthy, self-involved landowner and the various figures impacted by his reign, is the latest by master filmmaker Ceylan (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia). The story is set in Anatolia and examines the significant divide between the rich and poor as well as the powerful and powerless in Turkey.
Aydin, a former actor, runs a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal with whom he has a stormy relationship and his sister Necla who is suffering from her recent divorce. In winter as the snow begins to fall, the hotel turns into a shelter but also an inescapable place that fuels their animosities…