CANNES, France – The prestigious Palme d’Or award at this year’s Cannes film festival went to the Turkish drama Winter Sleep.
Running more than three hours, Winter Sleep is about a family running a hotel in the snowy Turkish hills and their strained relationship with their village tenants.
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Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan dedicated the award to “the young people in Turkey and those who lost their lives in the last year.” A coal mine fire in Turkey recently killed 301 workers.
Canada’s Xavier Dolan won a major prize at Cannes. Click here for more on this and other awards handed out at the festival.
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