{"id":32,"date":"2011-03-31T09:25:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T09:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/turkishfilmchannel.com\/blog\/?p=32"},"modified":"2013-10-18T23:05:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T23:05:07","slug":"films-of-zeki-demirkubuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/films-of-zeki-demirkubuz\/","title":{"rendered":"Films of Zeki Demirkubuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;<em>As a filmmaker, what attracts me most in human nature is its dark side.<\/em>&#8221;\u00a0Zeki Demirkubuz<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2006 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/film\/2006\/jan\/30\/turkey.world\">Fiachra Gibbons of Guardian<\/a> described him as &#8220;<em>Zeki Demirkubuz is one of the utterly unclassifiable talents Turkish cinema has quietly produced to surprise, delight and challenge the world. He seems surprised that his serious films have struck such an international chord. Yet he is one of a select club of directors to have had two films competing at Cannes at the same time<\/em> [<a href=\"http:\/\/filmpot.com\/en\/film\/fate\">Fate<\/a> (2001) and <a href=\"http:\/\/filmpot.com\/en\/film\/confession\">Confession<\/a> (2002)]&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a title=\"Zeki Demirkubuz films in Filmpot Catalog\" href=\"http:\/\/filmpot.com\/en\/zeki-demirkubuz\">Zeki Demirkubuz Films<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/filmpot.com\/catalog\">Filmpot catalog<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong> <\/strong><a title=\"Kader (Destiny)\" href=\"http:\/\/filmpot.com\/en\/film\/destiny\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/filmpot.com\/en\/img\/thumbs\/kader_poster.jpg\" width=\"110\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"Itiraf (Confession)\" href=\"http:\/\/filmpot.com\/en\/film\/confession\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/filmpot.com\/en\/img\/thumbs\/itiraf_poster.jpg\" width=\"110\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"Yazgi (Fate)\" href=\"http:\/\/filmpot.com\/en\/film\/fate\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/filmpot.com\/en\/img\/thumbs\/yazgi_poster.jpg\" width=\"110\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Yazgi (Fate)\" href=\"http:\/\/filmpot.com\/en\/film\/envy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/filmpot.com\/en\/img\/thumbs\/kiskanmak_poster.jpg\" width=\"110\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Ucuncu Sayfa (Third Page)\" href=\"http:\/\/filmpot.com\/en\/film\/the-third-page\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/filmpot.com\/en\/img\/thumbs\/ucuncu_sayfa_poster.jpg\" width=\"110\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"Bekleme Odasi (Waiting Room)\" href=\"http:\/\/filmpot.com\/en\/film\/the-waiting-room\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/filmpot.com\/en\/img\/thumbs\/bekleme_odasi_poster.jpg\" width=\"110\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"C Blok (Block C)\" href=\"http:\/\/filmpot.com\/en\/film\/block-c\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/filmpot.com\/en\/img\/thumbs\/c_blok_poster.jpg\" width=\"110\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"Masumiyet (Innocence)\" href=\"http:\/\/filmpot.com\/en\/film\/innocence\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/filmpot.com\/en\/img\/thumbs\/masumiyet_poster.jpg\" width=\"110\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2007 Film Society of Lincoln Center hosted a retrospective of Zeki Demirkubuz films titled &#8220;<strong>Mental Minefields: The Dark Tales of Zeki Demirkubuz<\/strong>&#8220;. He was described as a revolutionist of Turkish cinema:\u00a0&#8220;<em>Together with a handful of others, Demirkubuz has been leading a revolution in Turkish cinema for the past decade&#8230;. His protagonists all have astonishingly rich, varied and at times frightening personal psychologies, yet one never feels that their inner worlds are completely divorced from the external circumstances of their lives &#8211; or even their experiences in reality.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you want to discover this great director, you can follow the\u00a0retrospective <a title=\"Filmpot films on MUBI\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mubi.com\/distributors\/72\">MUBI<\/a> launched:\u00a0<a title=\"Chasing Shadows: The Films of Zeki Demirkubuz\" href=\"http:\/\/mubi.com\/notebook\/posts\/2566\">&#8220;Chasing Shadows: The Films of Zeki Demirkubuz&#8221;<\/a>, which will\u00a0last one full year. 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