The Wild Pear Tree (official trailer)

Opens in New York January 30 at Film Forum () and in Los Angeles February 8 at Laemmle Royal (). Sinan (Aydin Doğu Demirkol), an aspiring writer, returns home after university hoping to scrape together enough money to publish his first novel. He wanders the town encountering old flames and obstinate gatekeepers and finds his youthful ambition increasingly at odds with the deferred dreams of his gambling-addict father (Murat Cemcir). As his own fantasies mingle wi