The poetic and visually ravishing Times and Winds, winner of the Best Turkish Film Award at the 2006 Istanbul Film Festival, is the fourth feature from director Reha Erdem. Structured around the five Islamic daily calls to prayer, it explores rural life through the eyes of two boys, Omer and Yakup, and their female friend Yildiz. All are on the cusp of adolescence and saddled with families who curb their dreams and desires as surely as the mountain and sea confine their isolated village.

In his Salon.com review, Andrew O’Hehir wrote, "If I tell you that it's a lovely, lyrical film about children's lives... that sends you in one direction. If I haul out comparisons to art-house heavyweights like Abbas Kiarostami and Theo Angelopoulos, that may send you in another. Let's just say that from the first frames of Times and Winds I felt completely captivated... It wraps you in a world of discovery and heartbreak."

(Turkey, 2006, 111 minutes.)
In Turkish with subtitles.