Golden Bear winner 'Honey' concludes the trilogy

Following the award-winning ‘Yumurta’ (Egg) and ‘Süt’ (Milk), Kaplanoğlu’s cinematic shopping list concludes with ‘Bal’ (Honey). The Golden Bear winner in the recent Berlin Film Festival is the final film in Yusuf’s trilogy. First in chronological order, ‘Bal’ takes us to Yusuf’s childhood and his traumatic relationship with his father

Semih Kaplanoğlu has been easing his way into Turkey’s popular consciousness over the last decade. He’s now become a revered name, the proud winner of the Golden Bear at the recent Berlin International Film Festival. His first two feature films, Herkes Kendi Evinde (Away from Home) of 2001 and second film Meleğin Düşüşü (Angel’s Fall) of 2005 had won him various awards here and abroad.

However, it was his last three films, making Yusuf’s trilogy, that put him on the radar for many movie buffs in Turkey. The bizarre name of the first one, Yumurta (Egg), raised our interest. Then, we learned that the subsequent two films in the trilogy would make up a shopping list, Süt (Milk) and Bal (Honey).