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- DirectorAsli ÖzarslanStarsLeyla ImretCihan ImretMerjem ImretShe is the youngest and the first female mayor of Cizre. A town located in the southeast of Turkey, where Kurds form the significant part of the inhabitants.
- DirectorÜmit ÜnalStarsSerra YilmazIrem AltugIdil FiratA woman lets a harmless looking fortune teller into her house. The fortune teller is clearly gifted, but it turns out she had no intention of just telling fortunes. Soon, the woman deeply regrets letting her in.
- DirectorSalih Demir
- DirectorDervis ZaimStarsMehmet Ali NurogluSerhat Mustafa KiliçSettar TanriögenStory of a man who is suffering because of a crime and trying to escape of his suffering.
- DirectorEsen IsikStarsOguzhan SancarBekir SevenkanBeren TunaAn ordinary day in the mega-city of Istanbul: Ten-year-old Cemo sells paper tissues in the streets, Hayat is controlled by her husband and transsexual Ebru sells her body. All three have a secret love and they do everything to satisfy their longing, if only for a moment.
- DirectorRamin MatinStarsMehmet Ali NurogluIbrahim SelimEmre YetimTwo sisters in their early thirties find themselves isolated in the Aegean summer cottage of their childhood, as they must deal with their uneasy sibling relationship and confront their devastating recent past past.
- DirectorMehmet Ada ÖztekinStarsNejat IslerYigit ÖzsenerHande DogandemirKaan and Mete, who spent their holiday in Olympos with a crowded Kadiköy group, travel to Istanbul with their bikes. The duo are accompanied by two unexpected guests on their journey. This journey, which they do with various plans, shows them that the journey and the relations might not go as planned.
- DirectorAbdurrahman ÖnerStarsEzgi MolaBilal Zeynel ÇelikAysenil SamliogluBekir, dreams of going to the moon by his bicycle just like the kid he saw on TV in the Turkish E. T. movie, 'Badi' film trailer. Rabia and her sister get into a hot dispute over the inheritance.
- DirectorSelman KiliçaslanStarsKemal UçarArif Erkin GüzelbeyogluNilay ErdönmezAli is an engineering student and he dreams to go abroad with Erasmus project, leaving behind the town that he lives in. At the same time he goes through a searching period that he tries to know himself, asking questions about life. His quiet life is stirred up upon his crash to Gülce who is singing in a folk music cafe.
- DirectorM. Tayfur AydinStarsSedat CulumAyhan ErenSebnem HassanisoughiSara, who left her own country Iran without permission of her parents when she was a teenager, is an actress in Paris, France. She receives a letter from Iran and she wants to go to her village. The best way to do this is to pass Turkish border (illegally) which is full of danger.
- DirectorSemir AslanyürekStarsEvmorfia AnastasiouLabina MitevskaSerra YilmazIn Antioch, courtyards are separated from the streets with high walls and their doors are always closed. In Antioch, every courtyard is a world in and of its own. Among its inhabitants are Turks, Arabs, Christians, Jews, Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks, Alevites, Sunni Muslims.
- DirectorTunç BasaranStarsOzan BilenNur SürerFüsun DemirelBaris, a 5 year-old little boy, has to stay in a prison with her mother during her detention period. Baris develops a special relationship with Inci, a young woman who also stays in prison. She promises him that the kite will fly someday.
- DirectorReha ErdemStarsYesim TozanGülsen TuncerNurinisa YildirimA young girl with a vivid imagination exasperates her grandparents when she begins communicating with the ghost of her mother.
- DirectorÖmer KavurStarsMacit KoperSahika TekandSerra YilmazThe lonely proprietor of a small hotel in a provincial Turkish town develops a passion for a departed guest and the reality of routine everyday-life starts crumbling into pieces.
- DirectorYesim UstaogluStarsNazmi KirikNewroz BazMizgin KapazanMehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from the village Tire, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. Due to a strange set of events, he is mistaken for a Kurd, imprisoned, and brutally beaten.
- DirectorPelin EsmerStarsBasak KöklükayaÖykü KarayelYigit ÖzsenerWhy would someone like Leyla go to a high school reunion dinner? And take an overnight train to get there. After all, she hasn't been to a single one for the last 25 years - What is Canan, a student nurse, doing on the train? Reluctantly going to an interview for a nursing job when she would like to be an actress instead.
- DirectorMehmet Ada ÖztekinStarsMehmet GünsürBige ÖnalTimuçin EsenThe Lord of the Seagull (MEF) is a man living a calm life on the seashore in Istanbul. There is someone he has been waiting for years. Finally the guest he waits will come out. In white, a woman who shoots on the shore like a tale will change the whole life of the MEF.
- DirectorOnur AydinStarsSerap AksoyHüseyin Avni DanyalAltan ErkekliThe beloved musician Koyuncu, unfortunately, died in a very early age because of cancer. The film tells a story on Kazim Koyuncu, Chernobyl disaster, Trabzonspor football team and more.
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsHaluk BilginerMelisa SözenDemet AkbagA hotel owner and landlord in a remote Turkish village deals with conflicts within his family and a tenant behind on his rent.
- DirectorFaruk AksoyStarsDevrim EvinIbrahim CelikkolDilek SerbestAfter the death of his father Murat II, Mehmet II ascends to the Ottoman throne. After braving internal and external enemies, he decides to complete what he was destined to do - conquer Constantinople.
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsMuhammet UzunerYilmaz ErdoganTaner BirselA group of men set out in search of a dead body in the Anatolian steppes.
- DirectorYavuz TurgulStarsSener SenÇigdem Selisik OnatRutkay AzizHe is a boss who dedicates his life to grow up the textile empire he inherited from his father and does not hesitate to follow ruthless methods for it. He decides to choose a different life after a heavy traffic accident.
- DirectorMustafa AltioklarStarsDemet EvgarTamer KaradagliLevent ÜzümcüSeemingly content with the way her life goes, and deeply in love with her psychiatrist husband Doruk, Beyza is thrown off-balance by strange, occasional memory blackouts. Meanwhile, a number of mutilated legs found around Istanbul push the city into the terror of a serial murderer.
- DirectorMahsun KirmizigülStarsTalat BulutMert TurakMahsun KirmizigülN the 1960s, a new teacher arrives in a village in the interior of Turkey and discovers that there is no school. He mobilizes the residents to build a place for children and the disabled to learn.
- DirectorReha ErdemStarsTurgay AydinArzu BazmanEsra Bezen BilginIn an apartment building where neighbors, friends, and family are living in close quarters, three male protagonists encounter three phases of manhood in Turkish society. Directors Reha Erdem's light touch and slyly amusing style do not miss the opportunity to illuminate some serious points in a strictly patriarchal society.
- DirectorReha ErdemStarsDeniz HasgülerOnur ÜnsalYildirim SimsekJin, a guerrilla, lives in a cave and decides to escape from the organization. She finds some civilian clothes and goes down from the mountain to the city. However, the city is no safer than the mountain.
- DirectorReha ErdemStarsSermet YesilTürkü TuranSerkan KeskinA strange man with otherworldly talents becomes both a friend and a pariah in a small Turkish town in this drama from writer and director Reha Erdem. Yahya is nearly in a panic when his young son falls into the river on a wintry day and looks lifeless when he's pulled from the water.
- DirectorReis ÇelikStarsEkrem AtaerOrhan AydinGönen AykaçThis movie is about Deniz Gezmis and his two comrades. They were three revolutionary activist has been executed by military fascist junta in 1972.
- DirectorOnur ÜnlüStarsAli AtayDemet EvgarDamla SönmezCemal is a man who lives with his father in Akhisar town of Manisa and works in his own barber shop. Cemal, who seems to be at his own pace, is in trouble, and even he doesn't know what's going on. On the other hand, in this town where almost everyone knows each other, seemingly ordinary people have extraordinary powers.
- DirectorZeki DemirkubuzStarsGüven KiraçHaluk BilginerDerya AlaboraYusuf is released from prison after serving a ten-year sentence. He is scared of life outside as he goes to an address given to him by another prisoner.
- DirectorErden KiralStarsGenco ErkalErkan YücelSerif SezerA urban Turkish teacher is transferred for political reasons to a backward Kurdish village in the mountains near the Iranian border. He is welcomed with distrust, but during that harsh year the mutual cultural misunderstandings fade away.
- DirectorReha ErdemStarsOzen OzkanAli Bey KayaliElit IscanThe pain of growing up, as seen by three Turkish youths: Ömer, the son of the local imam, who wishes the death of his father; his best friend, Yakup, who's enamored with the village schoolteacher; and Yildiz, who is forced to balance her studies with the needs of her demanding mother.
- DirectorBora EgemenStarsKivanç TatlitugBüsra DeveliAlihan TürkdemirAli, a fisherman, devoted his life to his young son, Efe. Efe was the only son of Ali who was in this life. Efe is different from other children. Efe, who has a communication problem, is not a child who can laugh and play and react to what he hears.
- DirectorHasan Tolga PulatStarsUgur PolatNesrin CavadzadeBugra Gülsoy"To Better Days" takes place in a day in Istanbul. It tells about five different character's paths crossing in daily life and intervention to each other's lives without awareness. The film tells all stories by nestling with its non-linear speculation. A time frame of one day; advances by jumping to the past, present and future.
- DirectorZülfü LivaneliStarsSinan TuzcuSerhat Mustafa KiliçDolunay SoysertStory based on the memoirs of Salih Bozok, which traces the life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
- DirectorAtom EgoyanStarsCharles AznavourBrent CarverEric BogosianInterrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.
- DirectorZeki DemirkubuzStarsAslihan GürbüzCaner CindorukTaner BirselWhen her husband Cemal is arrested in Romania, Emine is left alone with their child who needs immediate surgery.
- DirectorAhmet KaramanStarsBaran AkbulutYildiz Çagri AtiksoyYigit KirazciAskin, not fulfilling his expectations in the film industry after working for a while, returns his hometown as his father passes away. He finds himself surrounded by the life he denied years ago. Everything seems at a standstill. Is the father's death a disaster? "Why the generation with lost dreams look for a place in a world which they desire to alter?"
- DirectorBiket IlhanStarsYetkin DikincilerDolunay SoysertÖzge ÖzberkThis is a story of the great Turkish poet Nâzim Hikmet, the poet of struggle and combat, the poet of passion and love. Having adopted communism as his life philosophy, he reflects his thinking in his art, and is continuously chased by the police as a result. Every move he makes, every word he writes or says is under the close scrutiny of the state.
- DirectorEmine Emel BalciStarsEsme MadraRiza AkinArda AktolgaSerap is a quite but hot-headed adolescent who is working long hours in a cramped clothing workshop as a runner. Fed up with her abusive brother-in-law and detached sister; the only thing that keeps Serap going is the hope of moving into an apartment with her father who is a long distance truck driver.
- DirectorAlphan EseliStarsUgur PolatNergis ÖztürkSerdar OrçinThe Long Way Home is set on the outskirts of Kars in Eastern Anatolia in the winter of 1915 and takes us to the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Sarikamis. The film follows a group of seven people from different walks of life on their quest to escape the war zone and find a safe path back home.
- DirectorHany Abu-AssadStefan ArsenijevicAida BegicStarsAli SulimanHiam AbbassEsin AlpoganAn aged mother with her middle aged daughter travels from Palestine to Istanbul, Turkey, to meet some relatives. This and other short stories give us a clue about the city of Istanbul.
- DirectorEmre ErdogduStarsHazar ErgüçlüOzan UygunHalil BabürMüzeyyen is a young woman who lives a drug-fuelled, chaotic life outside the norms of society. Her brother Ali interrupts his own successful, bourgeois life in Bolu, and goes to Antalya to meet with his recently- discovered sister.
- DirectorTolga KaraçelikStarsTolga TekinBartu KüçükçaglayanTugce AltugIn a Turkish village, three siblings who neither know each other nor anything about their late father, wait to bury his body. As they start to find out more about their father and each other, they also start to learn more about themselves.
- DirectorMuammer ÖzerStarsZuhal OlcayHaluk BilginerSahika TekandSibel was tortured in prison as a political criminal in the 1980 coup and went silent after being released from prison. Her husband Atilla has questions.
- DirectorEzel AkayStarsHaluk BilginerÖzcan DenizDemet AkbagThe tragicomic story of a young man who wants to be a famous singer
- DirectorÇagan IrmakStarsDeniz CelilogluAras Bulut IynemliSumru YavrucukThe key to the puzzle of forlorn sculpture Tammuz's life and reality of his dreams lies within Ihsan who is a young boy with tetra-amelia syndrome.
- DirectorZeki DemirkubuzStarsSerdar OrçinZeynep TokusEngin GünaydinMusa, who works as a bookkeeper in the customs office, believes in the emptiness and absurdity of life. He doesn't struggle to change his life; he lets himself flow along with events because he thinks that it all leads to the same end. The death of his mother doesn't affect him. Although he loves her, her death makes him joyful.
- DirectorZeki DemirkubuzStarsRuhi SariBasak KöklükayaErol BabaogluIsa is beaten up after being accused of stealing $50. When his landlord demands the back rent, Isa gets angry and shoots him. The police round up the tenants, but are not suspicious of him. Back in his room, Isa collapses and is helped by his pretty neighbor Meryem, who also pays the $50 when the thugs return.
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsDogu DemirkolMurat CemcirBennu YildirimlarAn unpublished writer returns to his hometown after graduating, where he seeks sponsors to publish his book while dealing with his father's deteriorating indulgence into gambling.
- DirectorÖmer Faruk SorakStarsEsra InalCeylin AdiyamanGülay BaltaciEsra leads two parallel lives. In her worldly life as a Turkish Berliner in a re-united city, vivacious and spirited Esra adores her family but feels caged in her relationships and languishes in her job.
- DirectorDeniz Akcay KatiksizStarsAhu TürkpençeLale BasarSavas Alp BasarThe story of four people who cannot manage to become a family again after a loss and who destroy themselves with each passing day.
- DirectorMahmut Fazil CoskunStarsAli Seçkiner AliciTarhan KaragözMurat KiliçThe night long journey of the 4 soldiers discharged from the army.
- DirectorKivanç SezerStarsMenderes SamancilarMusab EkiciKubra KipSet against the backdrop of construction activity promising to fill in the empty spaces of the urban landscape with entirely new neighborhoods, a story unfolds of an aging construction worker who, unlike his peers, has to drop all plans for the future after being diagnosed with a malignant tumor.
- DirectorAli VatanseverStarsErol AfsinSaadet AksoyOnur BulduThe Fikirtepe district of Istanbul. Urban transformation is sweeping away the poor communities and Syrian refugees take shelter in deserted buildings. Kamil and his wife Remziye risk losing their home. Unemployed for a long time, Kamil, has no choice but to secretly accept a job on a construction site.
- DirectorCeylan Özgün ÖzçelikStarsAlgi EkeÖzgür ÇevikKadir ÇermikA News Channel employee Hasret, has been seeing the same nightmare for some time. Through recurring nightmares, a question creeps into her mind: Is it possible that her parents were not killed in a traffic accident twenty years ago but have died in some other, horrific way?
- DirectorUgur YücelStarsKenan ImirzaliogluOlgun SimsekBahri BeyatYazi Tura is the film of two stories taking place in 1999. Stories of two young men... One is "Ridvan the Devil", a young football player from Central Anatolia, Cappadocia / Goreme, and the "Cevher the Ghost", a young man who is living with his father in Istanbul. Both went to the army together, and fought in the Eastern Anatolia.
- DirectorDervis ZaimStarsAhmet UgurluTuncel KurtizAysen AydemirMahsun is homeless and unemployed. He lives in Rumelihisari (one of the most picturesque and oldest quarters of Istanbul), and tries to stay alive with the help of local fishermen. Mahsun loves cars, he steals at nights and in the mornings he drives them back clean and well kept.
- DirectorOnur ÜnlüStarsHaluk BilginerÖzgü NamalKöksal EngürPeople's souls changes. Souls pass when someone dies.
- DirectorDeniz Gamze ErgüvenStarsGünes SensoyDoga Zeynep DogusluTugba SungurogluWhen five orphan girls are seen innocently playing with boys on a beach, their scandalized conservative guardians confine them while forced marriages are arranged.
- DirectorYilmaz ErdoganÖmer Faruk SorakStarsYilmaz ErdoganDemet AkbagAltan ErkekliLives of residents in a small, Anatolian village change when television is introduced to them.
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsYavuz BingölHatice AslanAhmet Rifat SungarA family suffers from a major communication breakdown during their struggle to get through their hardships.
- DirectorAli ÖzgentürkStarsUgur YücelCem DavranYekaterina RednikovaOn a misty morning, an old bus leaves Batum to go to Istanbul. As the bus stops at various places on the way, Russian women of all ages and professions, each with a unique tale, board. In this bus full of women, there are three Turkish men. Three brothers who have come together after many years to carry their father's last wish.
- DirectorÖzcan AlperStarsGaye GürselDurukan OrduSarkis SeropyanSumru is doing music researches at a university in Istanbul. To work on her thesis on gathering and recording an exhaustive collection of Anatolian elegies she sets off for the south-east of the country for a few months. The brief trip turns out to be the longest journey of her life.
- DirectorLusin DinkStarsNorikyan ArturOsin CilingirSevinç ErolSaroyanLand is a docu-drama focusing on the journey of famous writer William Saroyan to the birthplace of his Armenian family Bitlis, in Turkey in 1964. While retaking the same road, the film aims to understand Saroyan's unique attitude to belonging, witnessing the self-discovery of a man who followed the traces of his Armenian ancestors.
- DirectorGürcan KeltekColony is a film about psychogeography, the memory of landscape, trauma and remembrance.
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsEmin CeylanMuzaffer ÖzdemirFatma CeylanMuzaffer goes to the house where his parents live for the movie he will shoot. He is thinking of starring his relatives in the movie he will shoot. But his father struggles with the forest administration for the oaks he grows. His mother, on the other hand, does not feel well because of the diseases brought by old age.
- DirectorÖzcan AlperStarsOnur SaylakMegi KobaladzeSerkan KeskinA man struggles after his release from ten years as a political prisoner.