Nuri Bilge Ceylan guest of Red Tulip Film Festival

After winning the Palme’ d’Or Award in Cannes, director Nuri Bilge Ceylan comes together with cinema lovers as the guest of the second Red Tulip Film Festival in Rotterdam Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, who won the Palme d’Or Award for his film “Winter Sleep” last week at the 67th Cannes Film Festival, May 27 attended the Master Class event for the 2nd Red Tulip Film Festival in Rotterdam.

Answering questions from attendees, Ceylan said he was very proud of winning the Palme d’Or Award, and continued: “But such things are very frightening because I love loneliness. The feeling of loneliness encourages me to make films. Such things make a person to be surrounded by fake relations. It creates a lightning in a person’s life like a firework, but firework makes you blind. It brings darkness. I am aware of this fact; this is why I don’t exaggerate awards. It should be seen as a part of a play.”

When accepting the award, Ceylan clenched his right fist on the stage. When asked, the director said it was not a planned movement, but happened

in a second, adding that he was not annoyed with being compared with the Turkish director Yılmaz Güney, who did the same when he won the same award 32 years ago.

Ceylan said he had dedicated his first award, which he won for his film “Uzak” (Distant), to Güney, adding, “I did not do it [clench my fists] when accepting the award. Later on, during the photo-shoot hundreds of photographers call for you to do something like taking off your glasses, raising your hands, clenching your fist and etc. You have to do something there to pose for them. But of course, it can be perceived as a salute to...