Tribeca director Ferzan Ozpetek’s “Loose Cannons,” screening in the World Narrative Feature Competition, is a playful take on family obligation and the possibility of being uprooted from comfortable ...

A rich, occasionally overwrought melodrama about the memory of lost love, the Italian film “Facing Windows” explores the power of looking, the gaze of desire. The eyes are indeed windows to the soul — ...

Prolific Turkish-Italian director Ferzan Ozpetek has started shooting “Nuovo Olimpo,” a Rome-set gay romance that marks his first collaboration with Netflix. Ozpetek’s first Netflix Italian original ...

In Italy, Ferzan Ozpetek is known as a Turkish filmmaker. In Turkey, Ozpetek is considered an Italian director. Who exactly is Ferzan Ozpetek? Ozpetek's work certainly offers clues to his identity.

Ferzan Özpetek, one of the most acclaimed directors in Italian and international cinema, was a guest of Mara Venier on "Domenica In", to share his story in a long interview. With his unique style, ...

Turkey’s gift to Italian cinema, Ferzan Ozpetek, the subject of a MOMA mid-career survey, left home as a teenager to study film history in Rome and entered the industry in 1982 as an assistant to ...

24/02/2003 - The Turkish-born Italian director talks about his forthcoming La finestra di fronte, a film about the emotions and memories of ordinary people "Many years ago near the Ponte Sisto in Rome ...