Eleven months after her previous appearance at Jean Cocteau Cinema, award-winning actress Sibel Kekilli will return to the Santa Fe, New Mexico movie theater November 24-25 for two screenings of her 2010 film, "When We Leave." The movie, originally released in Germany under the title "Die Fremde," features Kekilli as a German-born woman of Turkish descent who is rejected by her family in Berlin when she, along with her five-year-old son, flees her abusive husband in Istanbul. For that performance, Kekilli won her second award for best actress at the Lola Awards, which is the German equivalent of the Academy Awards.
"Last time she was here, I introduced her to margaritas and chile con queso, so of course she had to return," wrote George R.R. Martin on his blog Wednesday. According to Martin, Kekilli will introduce the film and answer questions afterwards on both nights. Advance tickets are available at the Jean Cocteau Cinema website.
Jean Cocteau Cinema is owned by Martin, who lives in Santa Fe and is the author of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" fantasy books series. The HBO television series "Game of Thrones" is based on that book series, and Martin met Kekilli after she was cast to play Tyrion Lannister's lover Shae on the TV show. The two have developed a close friendship, which was documented on the German/French reality TV show, "Durch die Nacht." During Kekilli's visit to Santa Fe in December, she and Martin were followed by a film crew as he gave her a tour of the city. The two of them also dropped by Jean Cocteau Cinema at attend a screening of Kekilli's 2004 debut movie, "Head On." She won her first Lola Award for her performance in that movie, originally titled "Gegen die Wand" in Germany.
Kekilli's last trip to Santa Fe was a bit of an adventure. According to an interview she gave the Santa Fe Reporter, her connecting flight from Denver was cancelled due to bad weather, so she accepted a ride from a stranger that was transporting fish to Santa Fe. The drive between Denver and Santa Fe takes six hours, so along the way they stopped for crushed ice for his cargo.
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