

Distant
A young man from rural Turkey arrives in Istanbul with dreams of working on a ship and stays with a cousin while he searches for work. Over time, the former’s struggles to find employment and the latter’s troubles and disappointments strain their relationship and living situation.
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7.1/10
270 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $767.3K
- Language
- Turkish
- photographer
- recession
- loneliness
- unemployment
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Release dates
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical28 May 2004
GreeceGR
- Theatrical28 Nov 2003
South KoreaKR
- Theatrical155 Nov 2004
TaiwanTW
- Theatrical6+24 May 2024
TürkiyeTR
- Theatrical20 Dec 2002
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Distant was released on 20 December 2002.
Audience reviews
1- G6/10
griggs79
3/28/2025
_Uzak_ struck me as a quiet, contemplative look at loneliness—not just being alone, but that more profound kind of isolation you can feel even when someone’s right there. I admired Ceylan’s direction: those long, still shots, the wintry mood, the way silence does most of the talking. Muzaffer Özdemir felt totally believable as Mahmut—stuck in his routines, emotionally bottled up—while Mehmet Emin Toprak brought this …
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