Times and Winds or is a 2006

2006 in film

- Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2006...

 Turkish

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

 drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed and written by Reha Erdem

Reha Erdem

Reha Erdem is an award-winning Turkish film director and screenwriter.-Biography:He attended Galatasaray High School and he studied history at Boğaziçi University before leaving to study film in 1983. He obtained a B.A. in Cinema Studies and an M.A...

. The film premiered in the United States on January 11, 2008. It won the Best Turkish Film of the Year Award at the Istanbul International Film Festival

Istanbul International Film Festival

The Istanbul International Film Festival is the first and oldest international film festival in Turkey, organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts , a non-profit organisation. It is held every year in April in movie theaters in Istanbul, Turkey...

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Plot

In a small village in the mountains overlooking the sea the people struggle to survive on a daily basis. Their lives, like those of their ancestors, follow the rhythms of the earth, air and water, of day and night and the seasons, with days divided into five parts by the call to prayer. Childhood is difficult and a father typically has a preference of one son over the other. Ömer, the son of the Imam, is such a victim of his father's dislike and he wishes for the death of his father. When his wish is not granted he begins to look for ways to kill him as a twelve year old boy might think of with his friend Yakup. Yakup seeing his father sexually interested in his teacher also develops a hatred of his father in the same way and as the children grow up they are riddled between guilt and love and hate for their fathers.

Cast

• Taner Birsel
  Taner Birsel
  Taner Birsel is a Turkish film actor. He has appeared in twelve films since 1995. He starred in The Confession, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival....
  
   as Zekeriya
• Nihan Aslı Elmas as Yıldız's Mother
• Köksal Engür as Halil Dayi
• Sevinç Erbulak
  Sevinç Erbulak
  Sevinç Erbulak is a Turkish actress, who acted in Kiralık Konak, Aşk-ı Memnû and Derya Gülü. The daughter of Altan Erbulak and Füsun Erbulak, Sevinç is currently married to Dalin Midyat.-TV series:* Süper Baba...
  
   as Yakup's Mother
• Selma Ergeç
  Selma Ergeç
  Selma Ergeç is a Turkish-German actress, beauty pageant titleholder, model, designer, philologist, psychologist and doctor....
  
   as The Teacher
• Elit İşcan as Yıldız
• Ali Bey Kayalı as Yakup
• Yiğit Özşener
  Yiğit Özşener
  - Biography :Özşener graduated from Yıldız Technical University with a degree in Electornics and Communications Engineering in 1996. Özşener who had began studying acting at the Şahika Tekand acting studio, began acting there in various play, including Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter which was...
  
   as Yusuf
• Tilbe Saran as Ömer's Mother
• Tarık Sönmez as Shepherd Davut
• Cüneyt Türel as Grandfather
• Bülent Yarar as Imam

External links

• Official site