Date: Thursday, May 19th, 7:30 p.m 

Director: NURI-BILGE CEYLAN

Country: Turkey

Release: 2002

Genre: Drama

Running time: 110 minutes

Language: Turkish | English Subtitle

Awards: Grand Prize of the Jury, Best Actor

Rated: PG

Uzak (Distant) is about the encounter between a melancholic and obsessive middle-aged photographer - Mahmut, and his cousin an unemployed country boy - Yusuf, who comes to Istanbul to find a job on a ship. The taciturn, parasitic young man played by the director>s usual actor Mehmet Emin Toprak, finds himself encroaching into the closed and colourless world of his cousin.