Butterflies

About Butterflies

Butterflies is a 2018 Turkish drama film directed by Tolga Karaçelik. It was screened in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.

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Butterflies (Turkish: Kelebekler) is a 2018 Turkish drama film directed by Tolga Karaçelik. It was screened in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.

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Plot

Cemal, Kenan and Suzan lost contact with their father Mazhar thirty years ago due to circumstances and each went their separate ways. Unexpectedly, their father contacts them and asks them to come visit him in their native village in the Turkish countryside. Cemal is an astronaut with no experience, Kenan is an unsuccessful voice actor and Suzan is an unstable teacher but Cemal is able to convince his brother and sister to take a long car ride together to their native village.

Cast

Tolga Tekin as Cemal

Bartu Küçükçaglayan as Kenan

Tugce Altug as Suzan

Serkan Keskin as Muhtar

Hakan Karsak as Imam

Ezgi Mola as Sevtap

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Notable quotes

“He looked out sentimentally at his friends: the ethereal castanets of the butterflies.”
— Martin Amis, The Pregnant Widow (2010), Book 5: "Trauma", Ch. 2: "The Waiting"
“Some butterflies, notably the , and feed on and can be found on damaged areas of tree trunks. They are also attracted to the smell of dung and manure.”
— Heather Angel, (96 pages)
“But these are flowers that fly and all but sing.”
— Robert Frost, "Blue-Butterfly Day", first published in The New Republic (March 16, 1921); collected in New Hampshire (1923)
“Butterflies … not quite birds as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.”
— Elizabeth Goudge, The Child from the Sea (1970), Book II, Ch. 1

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