A filmmaker must be like a missionary: Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkish director
Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan won the best director's award at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival for his film, Three Monkeys. In fact, Ceylan's first short film, Cocoon, was screened in the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. Distant, made in 2002, swung the Grand Jury Prize and the Best Actor Prize at Cannes and was critically acclaimed internationally.
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