Five separate story lines play out over a single night in Istanbul, each helmed by a different director, but deftly interwoven to create a cohesive tapestry of mismatched characters (the clarinetist, his wife, her lover, the assassin, the transsexual, the peasant, the princess, etc.) against the backdrop of one of the world's most beautiful cities. Not only do the stories begin to overlap, but they all become recognizable as modern interpretations of familiar fairy tales. The interlocking/criss-crossing structure is certainly not a new device, "but Unal's script, which continually surprises with its cleverness without sacrificing character development to plot mechanisms, makes the format shine anew." (Variety) More at anlatistanbul.com/english
2005, color, 1 hour 40 minutes, Turkey