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Turkish photographer, filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer Nuri Bilge Ceylan is considered to be one of the leading "new wave" auteurs of Turkish cinema. He, along with filmmaker Zeki Demirkubuz, and orhan pamuk, the Nobel Prize winner in literature, are considered among the most important artists and intellectuals who have questioned and artistically explored Turkish identity and culture.

Ceylan was born in Istanbul on 26 January In Ceylan's parents moved to the countryside and returned to the city when Ceylan was ten years old. This period of rural upbringing shaped Ceylan's experience and is reflected in his films. His mother Fatma Ceylan and father Mehmet Emin Ceylan, an agricultural engineer, have parts in Ceylan's first three films.

Ceylan's interest in photography began when he was given a camera as a present at age fifteen. His interest in art and film eventually led him to the study of cinematography at Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul. Cutting short his studies, Ceylan left after two years and decided to learn filmmaking by watching movies and making them.

The pear tree film

I just went into it with my imagination, figuring out what the best way for me was" Shrikent, a, p. With Koza Cocoon, , a fourteen-minute short film, Ceylan's career as a film director began. He was thirty-six then and had already established himself as a commercial photographer. Ceylan vehemently refused to work in the advertisement business, because, as he said in an interview with the film critic Jonathan Romney, "you steal from yourself, from your own ideas, when you do that" , p.

By then he was divorced and remarried to Ebru Ceylan, who plays the lead role in Iklimler Climates, Now an acclaimed film director, Ceylan continues to produce his films on a low budget and refuses to give up his small-scale approach to filmmaking.