Winner for Best Turkish Film at the 2001 Istanbul Film Festival,
Semih Kaplanoglu’s
Herkes Kendi Evinde (2001), a.k.a.
Away From Home, is an affecting drama about a man preparing to leave his homeland behind. Feeling unattached to Istanbul, Selim (
Tolga Cevik) makes preparations to relocate to America--a move that necessitates selling his family’s precious olive grove. When an elderly uncle (
Erol Keskin) objects,
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