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Journey to the Sun is a platforming adventure game made by nextReality Games. Enter the Grand Nexus, a place frozen in time. Explore the different domains to figure out what has happened to these ancient lands. Make friends and enemies, and collect masks and wings to decorate your Vessel!
Feb 9, 2001 · A young Turkish man from a village is falsely accused of being a Kurd and suffers violence in Istanbul. Journey to the Sun is a 1999 film by Yesim Ustaoglu, starring Nazmi Kirik and Newroz Baz.
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- Drama
- Yesim Ustaoglu
- 2001-02-09
Journey to the Sun (Turkish: Güneşe Yolculuk) is a 1999 Turkish drama film written and directed by Yeşim Ustaoğlu. It was entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Blue Angel Award.
Balancing the personal with the political, Yeşim Ustaoğlu tells the heartbreaking story of a friendship that flourished in the slums of Istanbul. A precisely observed study of everyday systemic racism in Turkey, Journey to the Sun is a powerful affirmation of the empathetic potential of cinema.
Directed by Yeşim Ustaoğlu. 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.
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- Yeşim Ustaoğlu
Sep 26, 2013 · Two men of different origin, a western Turk and a Kurd. A true friendship that goes beyond cultural boundaries. Amidst the chaotic background of Istanbul and later a road trip...
- 2 min
- 9.1K
- International Film Festival Rotterdam
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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. When a Kurdish friend, Berzan is killed in a street protest triggered by a hunger strike, Mehmet takes a trek to ...
