Ayberk Pekcan

Directed by cinema master Nuri Bilge Ceylan, this enthralling, brilliantly photographed film won the Palme d'Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and was Turkey's entrant for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards. Set in the amazingly picturesque Cappadocia region, it follows a retired actor who has inherited a small hotel where he is ensconced with his recently divorced sister.

When five sisters are seen innocently playing with boys on a beach, their scandalized conservative family confine them while forced marriages are arranged.