CLIMATES (Iklimler)

Man was made to be happy for simple
reasons and unhappy for even simpler
ones - just as he is born for simple
reasons and dies for even simpler ones...

Isa and Bahar are two lonely figures
dragged through the ever-changing
climate of their inner selves in pursuit of
a happiness that no longer belongs to
them.

An existentialist epic that observes a couple's fractured marriage with an intense, unflinching
eye, CLIMATES traces the rocky road of their relationship and follows their travails together
over three seasons. The film begins on a summer holiday in Kas where, out in the sun, at dinner
with friends and on a tense motorbike ride, Isa and Bahar quietly impart just how sour the mar-
riage has become (Bahar soon leaves for home - Istanbul - alone). In the rainy autumn Isa en-
counters a bewitching former lover named Serap.

Finally, in the snowy winter, Isa goes to the mountains to find Bahar on a location shoot (she works in television), and in their reunion there lies the possibility of a détente.