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- DirectorAram DildarStarsAhmet AkmanSilan AlagozKenan DemirA big surprise awaits the teacher who is appointed to his hometown, which he knows like the back of his hand; the village he was assigned is not in the maps or any records.
- DirectorFerit KarahanStarsEzgi AsarogluRojin TekinGülistan AcetA woman works as electrical engineer in a construction site where mostly Kurdish workers are employed. After the death of her brother in a clash during his military service, she starts to behave the workers including the illegally employed worker man who is secretly in love with her, like enemies.
- DirectorTayfun PirselimogluStarsZuhal OlcayMichael MendlParkan ÖzturanSükran who works at pay box of Haydarpasa is around 40 ages. She has a son whose name is Veysel. He works in a factory. She suffered from her husband's political actions, so she wants to keep away Veysel from political actions. Veysel get lost. She tried to find him but she did not. She called upon the competent authorities to find him but she was refused.
- DirectorCaner AlperMehmet BinayStarsKerem CanGiovanni ArvanehErkan AvciA feature film about an unusual trio: Daniel, a German photo-journalist in Istanbul without much knowledge about Turkish values. Can, a flamboyant, out and proud male belly dancer with lots of love and support from his family, and Ahmet born to an eastern and conservative family whose quest for honesty and liberty results in a tragic end.
- 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.
- DirectorYesim UstaogluStarsDerya AlaboraAytaç ArmanMustafa ArslanPolice Kemal, who is nearing retirement, faces a suicide case. Was the incident a murder or a suicide?
- DirectorSerif GörenYilmaz GüneyStarsErkan YücelKamran UsluerAdem TolayThis is the story of Cevher and his family, who all work in cotton fields in late seventies in Turkey. Cevher has to pay blood money to save his life. He even considers getting his daughter married to a rich and old guy. And on the cotton fields, they have to compete with machines, which are preferred to human workers. Eventually, workers unite and go on strike.
- DirectorYilmaz GüneyStarsYilmaz GüneyHayati HamzaogluBilal InciCoban and his four comrades are smugglers who live in the bleak, inaccesable mountains. They are hard, pitiless men like the county they live in, whose daily commerce is in greed, danger, betrayal and murder.
- DirectorErol MintasStarsFeyyaz DumanZübeyde RonahiNesrin CavadzadeA young Kurdish man is torn between his mother's nostalgic search of a song in her dreams and an uncertain future with his pregnant girlfriend.
- DirectorBahman GhobadiStarsBehrouz VossoughiMonica BellucciYilmaz ErdoganKurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks him dead for over twenty years.
- DirectorHüseyin KarabeyStarsCaner CindorukGörkem MertsözGizem Erman SoysaldiThe commissioner tells the teacher, who had been imprisoned for the past 6 months for no apparent reason, that they will allow him to meet with his wife even though conjugal visits are prohibited. The skeptical teacher continually asks why they would allow this.
- 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.
- DirectorHüseyin KarabeyStarsAyça DamgaciHama Ali KahnCengiz BozkurtThree years ago, in real-life, Hama Ali, a charismatic actor from Iraq famous locally for his performance as Iraq's version of Superman, met Ayca on a film-set. He and Ayca, a fiery actress from Turkey, had a passionate love affair before returning to their respective homes.
- DirectorAhu ÖztürkStarsAsiye DinçsoyNazan KesalDidem InselelNesrin and Hatun are two Kurdish cleaning women living in Istanbul. While Nesrin tries to survive with her little daughter, trying to understand why her husband left her, Hatun dreams of buying a house in the district where they clean.
- DirectorMiraz BezarStarsSenay OrakMuhammed AlHakan KarsakDiyarbakir, in the late nineties: Two young Kurdish children are forced to live on the street after their parents have been murdered by a member of a secret state security force.
- DirectorSedat YilmazStarsAram DildarEngin Emre DegerKadim YasarTurkey's first Kurdish language newspaper is under siege. After exposing human rights abuses in Diyarbakir, the journalists become the target of increasingly ruthless government-sanctioned intimidation.
- DirectorBen HopkinsStarsTayanç AyaydinGenco ErkalSenay AydinA Turkish small time black marketeer wants to enter the cell phone business. To get enough money, he promises the local doctor to get medicine for sick children.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorErden KiralStarsNurgül YesilçayMurat HanTülin ÖzenAydanur, who works at the factory, has a forbidden love with Mahmut, who married his childhood friend. Hearing this relationship leads to great tragedy.
- DirectorErden KiralStarsNurgül YesilçayMert FiratVildan AtaseverSüsen lives in a troubled family, after they move to Izmir, her father left the home and she effected by all. She sail to a new life with her childhood love, Yusuf. But the marriage will not be an exit for her.
- DirectorSeren YüceStarsBartu KüçükçaglayanSettar TanriögenNihal G. KoldasMertkan has a simple life in Istanbul: 'working' as an office-boy in his dad's construction company, hanging out with his male friends in malls and discos, cruising with his dad's 4-wheel drive at night. There is no urgency for him to find a meaning to this emptiness.
- DirectorÖzcan AlperStarsOnur SaylakSofiya KhandamirovaMustafa UgurluAddresses the issues of ethnicity and belonging and conveys how it feels to be across the borders, not only in terms of dislocating out of the borders of a country but also in terms of struggling to exist at the margins of a society.
- 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.
- DirectorLütfi Ö. AkadStarsHülya KoçyigitKerem YilmazerAli SenA young woman moves with her husband and small child to her husband's family in Istanbul. Her son becomes ill and the doctor tells her that he will soon die if he doesn't get an operation. The family refuses to help her because they can't see anything wrong with the boy and all money is needed for a new shop they have just opened.
- DirectorLütfi Ö. AkadStarsHülya KoçyigitAhmet MekinKamran UsluerA story of a family of six who are coming from Urfa tries to survive economically in Istanbul.
- DirectorYesim UstaogluStarsFunda EryigitEcem UzunMehmet KurtulusTwo Turkish women, one oppressed by sexist traditions and one liberated by modern mores, have more in common than it would seem.
- DirectorÖmer VargiStarsEmre KinaySevket ÇoruhSuna PekuysalThe series of extreme events happens to two construction workers when one of them discovers something bad about their boss.
- DirectorBay OkanStarsIlyas SalmanValérie LemoineMicky SébastianThe film is based on 'Fikrimin Ince Gulu', a novel by Adalet Agaoglu, which depicts a first generation guest-worker returning home. It covers his land journey in short bursts from Germany to the Turkey's west border and extensively from thereon to his village close to Ankara.
- DirectorYilmaz ErdoganStarsYilmaz ErdoganFarah Zeynep AbdullahSongül ÖdenPromising a visual feast of colors, costumes, light and locations, SOUR APPLES will have you simultaneously laughing and crying with its powerful acting performances as well as Yilmaz Erdogan's witty and memorable dialogues.
- DirectorAbdullah OguzStarsTalat BulutÖzgü NamalMurat HanWhen an unmarried teenage girl is believed by her family to have given up her virginity, she is ordered to be killed out of shame. But before her relative is able to complete the task, the two encounter a college professor.
- DirectorZeki ÖktenStarsTarik AkanMelike DemiragTuncel KurtizBecause of a local blood feud, a peasant family in eastern Turkey decides to sell its sheep in far away Ankara.
- DirectorReis ÇelikStarsTuncel KurtizFilmmaker Reis Çelik and actor Tuncel Kurtiz set out together to the town of Çildir in Ardahan province to trace the tradition of improvised storytelling of Anatolian folk poets based on the concept of intransigence.
- DirectorReis ÇelikStarsIlyas SalmanDilan AksütSabri TutalIn his quiet, intimate film, director Reis Celik succeeds in telling the tragic story of an unusual wedding night without the strains of a musical score on the soundtrack. Winner of the Crystal Bear at the 2012 Berlinale.
- DirectorSerif GörenYilmaz GüneyStarsTarik AkanSerif SezerHalil ErgünWhen five Kurdish prisoners are granted one week's home leave, they find to their dismay that they face continued oppression outside of prison from their families, the culture, and the government.
- DirectorYavuz TurgulStarsSener SenUgur YücelSermin HürmeriçBaran the Bandit, released from prison after 35 years, searches for vengeance and his lover.
- 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.
- DirectorSinan ÇetinStarsMetin AkpinarKemal SunalMeltem CumbulBased on a true story set in 1948, customs officer Mehdi is faced with the duty of formally setting up the border between Turkey and Syria, dividing his hometown. He is unaware of the pain that will eminently unfold, as families, languages, cultures and lovers are both ripped apart and clash head on in a village once united.