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100 mins | Drama | May 18, 1990

Nesibe lives with her parents on the outskirts of Istanbul; the family is poor, and her consistently unemployed father often takes out his frustration on the rest of the family. Nesbibe knows that there has to be something more to life, and she finds it—at the movies. As she recalls her childhood and adolescence, her own memories merge with scenes from the dozens of musicals, melodramas and romances she saw to fill her days and to escape the desperation of her home life. But as she moves into adulthood, the contradiction between Nesibe’s cinematic dream life and everyday reality starts to affect her in unexpected ways.

My Cinemas

100 mins | Drama | May 18, 1990

My Cinemas
Nesibe lives with her parents on the outskirts of Istanbul; the family is poor, and her consistently unemployed father often takes out his frustration on the rest of the family. Nesbibe knows that there has to be something more to life, and she finds it—at the movies. As she recalls her childhood and adolescence, her own memories merge with scenes from the dozens of musicals, melodramas and romances she saw to fill her days and to escape the desperation of her home life. But as she moves into adulthood, the contradiction between Nesibe’s cinematic dream life and everyday reality starts to affect her in unexpected ways.
IMDb rating 5.9
Producers
Original title Benim Sinemalarım
Directors Gülsün Karamustafa, Füruzan
Writers Füruzan

Cast

Hülya Avşar

as Nesibe

Yaman Okay

as Recep

Sema Aybars

as Nesibe's Mother

Yaman Tarcan

as Salih