2016 marks the 500th anniversary of the death of Hieronymus Bosch. It is almost the only information about the artist of The Garden of Earthly Delights that we can put a precise date to. Bosch, the garden of dreams is a film about his most important painting and one of the most iconic paintings in the world: The Garden of Earthly Delights.
Orhan Pamuk – Turkey’s Nobel laureate for Literature – opens a museum in Istanbul. A museum that’s a fiction: its objects trace a tale of doomed love in '70s Istanbul. The film takes a tour of the objects as the starting point for a trip through images, landscapes and the chemistry of the city. A film about Istanbul, love, memory and loss.
A journalist arrives in a Turkish town to make an article about the local community. He is investigating things, whilst he is also noticed by a secret agent. Who is following who?
Based on a short story from Kara Kitap (The Black Book) by Orhan Pamuk, with Pamuk writing the screenplay, Gizli Yüz takes the viewer on a mystical journey where time becomes an important leitmotif.