Dry Summer October 22, 2010

Oct. 22 @ 9:30PM; Oct. 23 @ 7PM
Black and White, 35mm
Turkish with English subtitles
2008 World Cinema Foundation restoration print

Director Metin Erksan’s meditation on greed and betrayal won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 1964, only to be neglected and denied distribution following disputes over national representation. Dry Summer mines the thematic realm of Cain and Abel, occupying itself with the conflicts of Hassan and Osman, two brothers with incompatible motives. When Osman builds a dam to prevent villagers from accessing his springs, the brothers’ dissension over land and water reflects both historical and contemporary conflicts of natural resources, while examining the intimate consequences of selfishness and lustful impulses.

The World Cinema Foundation was established by Martin Scorsese in commitment to the restoration of neglected films from around the world. This screening is the first in a series of Bright Family Screening Room presentations of recent World Cinema Foundation restorations.

Filmmaker Fatih Akin calls Dry Summer “a film of passion. A passion for water as well as the obsessive passion created by forbidden love,” a remark epitomized by the film’s weaving of sexuality and human desire with the natural world.

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