Big Man, Little Love (2001)

Original title

Büyük Adam Küçük Aşk

Directed by

Handan İpekçi

Genre

drama film

Country

Turkey, Greece, Hungary

Runtime

2h

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 18 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An orphaned Kurdish child and a Turkish pensioner are forced to live together. They gradually learn to understand each other despite their differences.

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What happens

Big Man, Little Love (Turkish: Büyük Adam Küçük Aşk, Kurdish: Hêjar) is a 2001 international co-production drama film, written and directed by Handan İpekçi, about an orphaned Kurdish child and a Turkish pensioner thrown together by circumstance. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on October 19, 2001 (2001-10-19), won awards at film festivals in Antalya, Cairo, Cologne and Istanbul, including the Golden Orange for Best Film, and was Turkey's submission to the 74th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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