Original Title: Uzak
Language: Turkish
Genre: Drama
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Producer: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Screenwriter: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Cinematographer: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Editor: Ayhan Ergürsel
Art Director: -
Sound: Ismail Karadas
Music: Mozart
Cast: Muzaffer Özdemir, Emin Toprak, Zuhal Gencer Erkaya, Nazan Kirilmis
Awards: Best Turkish Director of the Year, Best Turkish Film of the Year, FIPRESCI Prize: Istanbul International Film Festival 2003
Best Actor, Grand Prize of the Jury: Cannes Film Festival 2003

Synopsis: Mahmut, a 40 year-old independent photographer, is a "village boy made good" at least professionally in the big city - Istanbul in this case. After his wife leaves him, he falls into an existential crisis. Then comes his cousin Yusuf, who left his native village after a local factory closed down. He looks to Istanbul for salvation: a job on board a ship sailing abroad, at once exciting and crucial to supporting his family in the desperately poor village. The distance between the two men is apparent at once, and becomes increasingly pronounced. Whereas Mahmut is adusted to big city life and suffers from many of its neuroses, Yusuf is a lonely, excentric country worker with annoying nervous and hygienic habits, and a sick mother back home he must somehow support. This intimate drama was filmed in the director's apartment in Istanbul , using all his furniture, appliances, rooms, car and so on as the film's props. The actor playing Yusuf is actually the director's real-life cousin, and the actor playing Mahmut is an actual friend, a non-professional actor.