Discoveries from Turkey World Cinema

A young boy with anger issues and his older brother find their seemingly peaceful nightly routine shattered when masked intruders break into their home - but nothing is as it seems.

At the heart of the story is a middle-aged man with a wife and family who essentially feels stifled. He is a landowner who has made different attempts to go beyond his provinicial environment and in the end, the call of a more active existence in hopefully greener pastures induces him to abandon both his family and his home.

The second film adaptation of the legend of Aysel who, seduced by her boss, becomes pregnant. Giving birth to the child, she applies to the court for alimony, but the father rejects the child.

While Ahmet is going to meet his girlfriend on the seaside, he sees her with another man. But actually there are two of the same woman.

The story of a gang leader who dresses as a man, told by two journalists.

In the quiet of his final hour, a man moves through familiar rituals, cooking a last meal, smoking in silence, revisiting faded photographs. As the weight of memory settles in, he performs ablution, and steps into the stillness of his room, where a deliberate end awaits.

The story of a young man who suffers from memory loss as a result of an accident. Çınar, who is in his early 30s, sees his life turned upside down after a traffic accident. Due to the blows he received, Çınar develops a type of dementia. Due to the effects of the disease, Çınar develops an interest in a different profession every day, as the things he reads or watches become embedded in his subconscious. One day he wants to be a firefighter, the next he plans to become an imam. After losing his family in the accident, Çınar begins living with his uncle, and a caregiver is sought to support him through this process. Öykü, a nurse whose greatest dream is to become an actress but who has never been able to achieve her dreams, is forced to accept the job. A very different bond will form between the two of them before long.

In the movie, we watch a man who thinks that he was born only to die and has collected all his thoughts about this in a notebook throughout his life.

To receive a coal subsidy from the government, Nimet (32) and his son Erkan (9) reach the final stage, where poverty is measured through household investigation. They pass stage two and get the subsidy.

In Turkey, you have to prove your sexual orientation in order to avoid military service. This short documentary film, in which the director proposes a very interesting and somewhat snide look at a society that stigmatises homosexuals, is a poignant satire aimed against a conservative society.

Necmi, who happens to be a witness to the murder, sets out to track down the killer.

Some people carried a severe possessed girl with locked wooden box to cure her.

A lonely young woman finds unexpected refuge when a disabled puppeteer at a fairground helps her launch a career as a celebrated singer. Secretly in love, he expresses his feelings through his puppets while she rises to stardom under his gentle guidance.

February 28 is Deniz Gezmiş's birthday… He would have been 75 years old today; but it only lived for 25 years, and in those 25 years, it had an impact that spanned 75 years. When you have a 25-year-old son, one feels better, what was done to him...

Two young people who love each other madly have fallen on the path of fate like two dry leaves in front of the autumn wind... But, does the season of love ever fade in the spring of life?... "Autumn" is the adventure full of love, excitement and suffering of two lovers who have lost all hope of happiness...

The life of a woman, who tries to illuminate the mystery of the events, will turn into hell in an instant.

A court on a theater stage.

Four fashionistas, stuck in the English countryside after a disastrous photo shoot, reluctantly continue their day with dinner at The Running Cow. As unresolved tensions from the day boil over, the chaotic evening spirals into violence.

New award-winning sort film of Cem Göksoy, director of Fear.

A mysterious “Queen of the Skies” arrives on Earth, likely transplanted from exotic American sci-fi footage, wandering in desert attire, singing alongside scantily clad dancers. The film stitches together these bizarre imported alien sequences with new Turkish desert scenes, resulting in a surreal sci-fi/comedy mash‑up Yeşilçam cinema.

After two families being at loggerheads for years, it is now Hasip and Nasip's turn. They fight to win the mayor election, and to marry their common love interest, Perihan.

İsmet, a wealthy and kind-hearted man from the village, is thinking of getting married when the time comes, but he is very indecisive about choosing a wife. He wants to marry someone who loves and admires him, not for his wealth. So he sets out to find a pure and innocent girl from a good family. However, various surprises await him.

The story of an ordinary citizen fighting the mafia.

What happens when your child comes out to you? In this feature documentary, parents of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-gender individuals in Turkey intimately share their experiences with the viewer, as they redefine what it means to be parents in this conservative society.

Cüneyt is hired by some wise guy named Beyefendi (Gentleman) to rescue a Professor who has found side-effectless synthetic painkiller. Cüneyt also calls his old friends Aytekin and Aykut to rescue the Professor with him. Three old friends take action after working on the rescue plan for a while. The team quickly rescues the Professor who was kept in a sheltered place. However, Beyefendi agrees with his rivals at the last minute and leaves the team to death. Three old friends must fight for their lives to get revenge.

Because of the financial problems of aunt Adile, the whole neighbourhood turns an old villa into a guesthouse.

Hülya Avşar tells her own life story in the film 'Selfi', which she wrote and directed.

Crime and Punishment set in Turkey. Bilal worked as a torturer for the military regime in the 1980s that murdered Selman's sons. Selman now has a gun on Bilal in a cave. Both men are trapped by their primitive instincts. The interplay of light and dark dissolves the boundary between perpetrator and victim.

My secret friend, I will take you to the ocean, where we can swim endlessly. Our souls can collide in the depth of the ocean and get lost in the abyss. There is no password this time, as you wear out in empty endings every day, just imagine this time. Imagine the sweet peace in the depth, to not get lost among light and nothingness.

Samet and Yusuf, two close friends who grew up together, work at the same nightclub. Yusuf, who works as a valet, is dating Gizem, one of the prettiest girls in the neighborhood, while Samet, who works as a security guard, is dating Dicle. While the young couple is dreaming of getting married, Cevat, the neighborhood bully and thief, is plotting to trap Yusuf and Samet. Cevat plans to have Yusuf steal luxury cars, but when Yusuf refuses, he causes a scene. Samet is injured in the fight and taken to the hospital. There, Samet's brain scan is mixed up with another patient's, and Yusuf is forced to face the possibility that his best friend may die soon. Yusuf's sole purpose now is to make Samet happy in his final days. Yusuf steals Cevat's luxury car from the club and sets off on a journey with Samet and his eccentric aunt Nebahat.

The story takes place in 2022, with the Covid-19 pandemic still ongoing.The Intergovernmental Disease Research Center (H.A.H.A.M) sends treatment to selected individuals. Emir has grown accustomed to his ordinary and mundane life. However, when his sister contracts COVID-19, he begins searching for a solution. With the miraculous news from his friend, he will embark on a journey toward the Safe Zone.

The movie is about what happens to Osman, who manages to get into a mansion as an in-law to get rid of his poverty. Osman is unemployed and penniless. He is engaged to Ayşe, the sister of his friend Mehmet. But they have no money to get married. Ayşe goes to work in Australia to save money. Osman marries the daughter of Dehri Bey, widowed with four children when her husband dies, and settles in Dehri Bey's mansion. Dehri Bey asks Osman to hire a foreign governess to teach his spoiled children to behave. Mehmet secretly writes a letter to Ayşe and invites her to Istanbul to play a trick on Osman, who has forgotten his sister and married. Ayşe enters the mansion as a governess under the name Angel. All the men of the mansion come after Ayşe.

The story of a man who takes revenge for his wife, who was murdered by his closest friend.

The encounter of midwife Maryam with supernatural events in a Byzantine village in Anatolia.

A not very talented Albanian barber in Italy has a huge imagination.