Yozgat Blues

Mahmut Fazıl Coşkun directed the 2013 Turkish-German comedy-drama Yozgat Blues. It opened in cinemas on December 6, 2013, runs about an hour and a half, and uses English alongside Turkish. Coşkun wrote the screenplay with Tarık Tufan. His first feature, Uzak İhtimal (2009), won the Golden Tulip at the Istanbul Film Festival, and Yozgat Blues is his second film, made four years later. It won the Golden Boll Award for Best Picture.

The story begins when Yavuz, a music teacher and singer, and his student Neşe move to Yozgat after a job offer. They are approaching an important turning point in their lives, but the music they perform interests nobody in the new city. The help of Sabri, whom they meet in their first days there, does not change things, and the result is still negative. That failure, in turn, brings unexpected developments. Ercan Kesal, Ayça Damgacı and Tansu Biçer lead the cast, joined by Nadir Sarıbacak, Kevork Malikyan, Serkan Ercan and Asiye Dinçsoy.

One critic ranked the film among the year's best for its originality despite its art-house leanings, and wrote that the years Coşkun spent between films had added to his cinematic journey, producing a more complete work than his debut. His characters are once more carried into another world.