seek and shooting firecrackers with friends, is starting to notice girls and yearns for the company of a dog." Influences Nina Rothe from The Huffington Post has discerned possible influences on Sivas from Orhan Pamuk's novel Snow. "I mentioned Pamuk's Snow earlier, because it is through it that I could relate more organically to Sivas. I needed an extra layer of knowledge to get, truly get the human harshness that a landscape so arduous, so politically charged and yet so poor creates within a little boy. Pamuk makes it clear, gets to the heart of this concept in a passage from his book: "In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries." See also List of submissions to the 88th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film List of Turkish submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film References External links Official website Official website (Japan) 2014 films 2014 drama films 2014 directorial debut films Turkish drama films 2010s Turkish-language films German drama films Venice Special Jury Prize winners 2010s German films