Refocus: The Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan

ReFocus: The Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan brings together a cohort of expert scholars to analyse the films of Turkey’s most renowned filmmaker. His self-reflexive films inspired by local incidents have reached global dimensions, and won awards at prestigious films festivals, including the Grand Prix, Best Director and Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival.

This collection highlights Ceylan’s aesthetics, auteurism and unique position within the film industry of Turkey and contemporary global cinema while focusing on his transnational style of filmmaking that also favours intertextual exchanges between his films, but also with other landmark works, merging photography, painting, and literature.

Gönül Dönmez-Colin is an independent film scholar specialising in the cinemas of Iran, Turkey and Central Asia. She has written numerous books including Women in the Cinemas of Iran and Turkey: As Images and As Image-makers (2019), The Routledge Dictionary of Turkish Cinema (2014), Turkish Cinema: Identity, Distance and Belonging (2008) and Women, Islam and Cinema (2004).