CANNES - Nuri Bilge Ceyhan's ''Uzak'' (Distant) film won on Sunday the Grand Prize in the 56th Cannes Film Festival.
The film about a jobless man from the countryside who irritates his sophisticated city cousin by moving into his apartment, won the Grand Prize.
The film's two stars, Muzaffer Ozdemir and Mehmet Emin Toprak, shared the award for best actor. They played the two cousins, both lonely and alienated, but unable to become friends.
Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan cast two non-professional actors to star. Toprak, his cousin, died in December in a car crash just after learning that the film was selected for Cannes.
(EÖ-AY) 26.05.2003