Times and Winds (Turkey, 2006) February 11, 2009

Young teen Omer contemplates the unthinkable as he bitterly struggles under the loveless emotional yoke of his scornful Muslim cleric father. Yakup, Omer's best friend, obsesses over a beautiful schoolteacher. This film by Reha Erdem contrasts a parochial society's unending chain of cruelty with the pagan natural world's eternal and sensual beauty.