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This week in theaters
‘L’uomo che ama’ The Man Who Loves)
Roberto (Pierfrancesco Favino) is a pharmacist emotionally attached to his younger brother, the homosexual Carlo (Michele Alhaique). Witnessing Carlo’s happiness with lover Yuri (Glen Blackhall), Roberto feels extremely envious. Though Roberto has proven himself capable of landing successful relationships in the past, these relationships invariably ended in heartbreak, with Roberto either being dumped or abandoning his partner. In time, he begins to feel a palpable sense of his own lingering unhappiness and dissatisfaction and attempts to reconcile this with his convictions that everyone else in the world is completely satisfied with life.
Directed by: Maria Sole Tognazzi
Genre: drama
Cast: Pierfrancesco Favino, Kseniya Rappoport, Arnaldo Ninchi, Marisa Paredes, Monica Bellucci
‘Gecenin Kanatları’ (The Wıngs of the Nıght)
The tragic life Gece (Beren Saat) has to live after her parents are killed before her eyes during a police raid following the Sept. 12, 1980 military coup affects her entire life, even forcing her to make a choice between love and death. The film tells how the stories of a girl who wants to become a suicide bomber and an athlete striving to make it to the national team intertwine.
Directed by: Serdar Akar
Genre: drama
Cast: Beren Saat, Murat Ünalmış, Erkan Petekkaya, Alper Kul, Cezmi Baskın
‘No Ofsayt’ (No Offsıde)
Ali Tarantula is a 45-year-old, not very well-educated man who’s stuck in his tiny life in the big city. One day Ali, out of the blue, becomes obsessively irritated over the offside rule in soccer. Determined to get the rule erased from international soccer regulations, Ali hits the road to persuade all people in the soccer industry from TV programs to the Turkish Soccer Federation (TFF). He even pays a visit to the UEFA headquarters -- of course with a box of Turkish delight as a sign of goodwill. He gains unprecedented support from offside opponents in Germany, France, Italy, Portugal and particularly Lichtenstein. And one day, he receives a letter from the UEFA administration…
Directed by: Mehmet Bahadır Er, Maryna Gorbach
Genre: comedy
Cast: Yıldırım Memişoğlu, Taylan Ertuğrul, Deniz Olgaç, Ahmet Çakar, Sinan Engin
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| Ukraine: a lost country | |||
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| The 52nd anniversary of May 27 | |||
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| Turkey and Mexico: Distant yet so close | |||
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| Yemen and beyond | |||
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| On Memorial Day a few words to make your day memorable | |||
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| Google kidnaps Gül! | |||
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| Critical months for Egypt | |||
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| Qualities of power | |||
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| The Egyptian elections, Islam and Islamists | |||
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| Operational errors | |||
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| There is need for a new initiative | |||
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| Europe can’t have it all. Or can it? | |||
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| Are Russian tourists being discouraged from visiting Turkey? | |||
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| Handmade | |||
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| Back to the ’80s | |||
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