The Wild Pear Tree

The Wild Pear Tree is a 2018 Turkish drama film directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. It was also selected as the Turkish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Plot Sinan is an aspiring young writer who has just finished college. Returning to his hometown of Çan, he sets about trying to find local funding to publish his debut manuscript, which he calls a "quirky auto-fiction meta-novel", but finds that the locals are uninterested. He also discovers that his eccentric father, Idris, has allowed his gambling addiction to disastrously reduce the family's fortune and stature. Worried about his career prospects and finding himself socially isolated in his rural hometown, Sinan wanders the countryside and engages in a series of testy conversations with various relatives and locals, including an established writer and two Imams who hold differing opinions about religion's place in the modern world. Eventually, disgusted by his father's degenerate gambling and suspecting him of stealing money, Sinan sells his father's beloved dog for the money to have his book published. He then leaves town for his required military service. When he returns, he finds that his father has abandoned his family, and is now living as a rural shepherd. The two reconnect in a friendly conversation where Idris reveals that he has given up his long-running quixotic attempt to dig a well on his arid property, and that he has read and enjoyed Sinan's book (making him the only person who appears to have done so). In a surreal moment, it appears that Sinan has hung himself in the abandoned well, but the film then abruptly cuts to Idris awakening. Looking about for his absent son, he walks over to the well to find Sinan at the bottom, continuing to dig. Cast Doğu Demirkol as Sinan Karasu Murat Cemcir as İdris Karasu (Sinan's father) Bennu Yıldırımlar as Asuman Karasu (Sinan's mother) Hazar Ergüçlü as Hatice Serkan Keskin as Süleyman Tamer Levent as Recep (İdris's father, Sinan's grandfather) Akın Aksu as Imam Veysel as Ali Rıza as İlhami Öner Erkan as Imam Nazmi Özay Fecht as Hayriye (Asuman's mother, Sinan's grandmother) Kadir Çermik as Mayor Adnan as Ramazan (Asuman's father, Sinan's grandfather) Sencar Sağdıç as Nevzat Asena Keskinci as Yasemin Karasu (Sinan's younger sister)