Two men, a young woman and Ankara

In his second feature ‘Bizim Büyük Çaresizliğimiz’ (Our Grand Despair), director Seyfi Teoman takes the capital city of Ankara as a central character and asks the city to heal the wounds of a delicate relationship among three people

Ankara is not the average go-to city when you want to make a film about the urban middle class, the people of big cities in Turkey. The capital city is much bigger and more populated than most European cities. But for the Istanbul elite, Ankara still is a small town with no hint of the chaos that drives Istanbul and inspires artists of all kinds.

That is why it was not a big surprise when Ankara was featured as the antithesis to Istanbul a couple of months ago in director Ömer Faruk Sorak’s Aşk Tesadüfleri Sever (Love Likes Coincidences). It was also no surprise when one of the characters said, “Have you seen anyone who moved to Istanbul, go back to Ankara?”

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