Love in Another Language is an award-winning 2009 Turkish drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

, directed by İlksen Başarır, starring Mert Fırat as a young deaf man who falls in love with a call-center worker. The film, which went on nationwide general release on , won awards at film festivals in Antalya, Bursa and Ankara as well as the 3rd Yeşilçam Awards

3rd Yeşilçam Awards

The 3rd Yeşilçam Awards , presented by the Turkish Foundation of Cinema and Audiovisual Culture and Beyoğlu Municipality, honored the best Turkish films of 2009 and took place on March 23, 2010, at the Lütfi Kırdar Congress and Exhibition Hall in Istanbul, Turkey...

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Plot

Onur, who has been deaf since birth, works as a librarian. His father had left him and his mother when he was seven, and Onur has always blamed himself for this. Although being able to speak, he has chosen to stay silent because of the pitying looks of the people around him. At his friend Vedat’s engagement party, he meets Zeynep, who later finds out about Onur’s hearing disability, but is not bothered by it. She is forced by her overbearing father to leave home and gets a job at a call-center. Having to speak on the phone all day to people she doesn’t know, Zeynep finds peace with Onur, who she communicates with perfectly without speaking...

General release

The film opened in 38 screens across Turkey on at number nine in the Turkish box office chart with an opening weekend gross of $103,877.

Festival screenings

• 46th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival
• 4th Bursa International Silk Road Film Festival
• 21st Ankara International Film Festival
  21st Ankara International Film Festival
  The 21st Ankara International Film Festival is a film festival held in Ankara, Turkey that ran from March 11 to 21, 2010.This edition of the Ankara International Film Festival, organized by The World Mass Media Research Foundation and accredited by FIPRESCI, opened with a gala on the evening of...
  
  

Box Office

The film twice reached number nine in the Turkish box office chart and has made a total gross of $771,785.

Awards

• 46th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival
  • City Council Jury's Special Award: İlksen Başarır (Won)
• 4th Bursa International Silk Road Film Festival
  • Best Actress Award: Saadet Işıl Aksoy (Won)
  • Turkish Film Critics Association (SİYAD) jury prize
• 21st Ankara International Film Festival
  21st Ankara International Film Festival
  The 21st Ankara International Film Festival is a film festival held in Ankara, Turkey that ran from March 11 to 21, 2010.This edition of the Ankara International Film Festival, organized by The World Mass Media Research Foundation and accredited by FIPRESCI, opened with a gala on the evening of...
  
   (11-21 March, 2010)
  • Best Leading Actor Award: Mert Fırat (Won)
  • Best Leading Actress Award: Saadet Işıl Aksoy (Won)
• 3rd Yeşilçam Awards
  3rd Yeşilçam Awards
  The 3rd Yeşilçam Awards , presented by the Turkish Foundation of Cinema and Audiovisual Culture and Beyoğlu Municipality, honored the best Turkish films of 2009 and took place on March 23, 2010, at the Lütfi Kırdar Congress and Exhibition Hall in Istanbul, Turkey...
  
  (March 23, 2010)
  • Best Actor: Mert Fırat (Won)

External links

for the film

• Başarır highlights social issue via modern-day romance discussion with the director