Which Turkish director made the 2008 film Pandora’s Box?

Yeşim Ustaoğlu directed the 2008 Turkish film Pandora’s Box.

The film, known in Turkish as Pandora’nın Kutusu, is a family drama about three siblings who return to their rural home after their elderly mother disappears. Its title uses the Pandora image metaphorically: the journey exposes unresolved tensions and difficult truths within the family.

Ustaoğlu is a Turkish filmmaker known for feature films that examine displacement, memory, family relationships, and social change. Pandora’s Box fits that body of work while focusing on the emotional distance between relatives living very different modern lives.

The film is sometimes confused with the 1929 German silent film of the same English title. They are separate productions from different countries, eras, languages, and narrative traditions.