Discoveries from Turkey World Cinema

An adaptation of the Indian film "Avare."

Directed by Halit Refig.

A film about the love between a married doctor and a painter he meets on vacation.

The film depicts Behçet's struggle against a gang of smugglers.

The same route after three and a half centuries... A creative documentary following the footsteps of the Ottoman-Armenian intellectual and traveler Eremya Celebi Komurciyan into the cosmopolitan Istanbul of the 17th century. Long before the invention of cinema, Komurciyan situates himself as a subject who observes the city of Istanbul as if he had a camera in hand. Borrowing Komurciyan’s timeless cine-eye, we delve into contemporary Istanbul to capture what is “inaccessible to the human eye” through the remnants of his route.

A father who lost his everything at war dreaming of crossing the border with his son and a piece of peaceful land. But the cold breathe of war will never stop haunting those who witnessed it. To pass 'Sirat' you need to die first.

Sahin K., who wants to leave his fame, wealth, but unhappy life in Germany behind and live a simple and normal life, decides to live in Bodrum. As he struggles to reunite with his son Caner, whom he lost because of his notoriety, he becomes a folk hero who will solve the town's problems. His unrelenting fame will drag him into different adventures.

Cemil learns he has an alzheimer's disease and his only grandson, Meriç, connects Cemil to life, is going to Tokyo.While looking for ways to keep Meriç in his mind, Cemil will also confront his past with his son, Murat.

Before a very important match for one of the major football clubs, their famous goalkeeper suddenly disappears. Club officials search everywhere for the goalkeeper and mistakenly kidnap Muttalip, who is working as an apprentice in a café, thinking he is their goalkeeper.

It is a story of a genie film depicted as a long haired, ugly woman who is often told to be haunted by pregnant women and horses. Dilara, who is 7 months pregnant, leaves her job with a maternity leave and goes to rest period where she will spend her time at home. But since the young woman has been pulled home, the nightmares have begun to poison her pregnancy.

A strange wire-fingered homunculus navigates through his dreams of different faces and faces, traversing a subliminal and endless variety. They are all different faces, but all have huge eyes that are questioned as to what keeps them apart, perhaps left broken by an impossible love.

A young man who returns to his ex-girlfriend when it turns out that his child was not from his wife.

Baran, who works as a courier with his motorcycle in a restaurant, lives in a rental house with his wife Zeynep. The house they live in has been included in the scope of urban regeneration and the couple is on the eve of moving to a new house. However, Baran's motorcycle gets stolen and for this reason, he loses his job. All of Baran's plans start to get interrupted.

A film about a land dispute, it tells the story of Eşref's revenge after losing his brother and father.

Ayşe is the daughter of a father who sided with the sultan against the National Struggle. She is about to marry a captain against her will. Osman, on the other hand, is one of the soldiers fighting for the liberation of the country. One day, he and his men raid Ayşe's house and take some money. After this incident, Ayşe's father, overcome with fear, wants to return to Istanbul. Ayşe, however, insists that they must join the National Struggle. This leads to an argument between Ayşe and her fiancé, the captain. During the argument, the captain accidentally kills Ayşe's father. After this incident, Ayşe decides to join the National Forces.

Two sisters own the Gul Hotel in an idyllic village in the South of Turkey. During the summer the town is guested by tourists who don't really act in the conservative fashion that the sisters expect. Fearing that these loose and immoral tourists might spread their illness of decadence, the sisters start to clean up the riff raff in their own special way. Also known as "Brutal Storm"

Özkan, who is still too young to distinguish between work and play, works for free alongside his father, Mezeci İsmail Hakkı, who is struggling to make ends meet with his three-wheeled mobile cart. Pirinç Han, once a place where grain was sold, no longer lives up to its name. As a apprentice to the grocer, Özkan quietly observed and remembered the daily lives of the merchants at Pirinç Han in the 1970s... What else will Özkan witness? What kind of ending will he write?

On the island of ice and fire, "Once upon a time in Iceland" portrays fascinating landscapes encountered while strolling along the Diamond Circle, one of Iceland's most popular travel routes, accompanied by the magical music of Sigur Rós, Hoppípolla. However, when one travels all the way to Eastern Iceland, things may get a little strange, as the small town Seyðisfjörður unintentionally exposes its secrets.

A musical exploration through Istanbul, an attempt to escape from its hell to its heaven.

Sait, a man committed to his faith, has turned his back on the material world. This peaceful existence is shattered by a news story he sees on television and a municipal worker who comes knocking on his door in the middle of the night.

The story of Bilo, a villager who went to Istanbul after the yellow ox he had bought with money borrowed from a moneylender died.

Dr. Doğan and Chief Physician Halil, who work at a mental hospital, are applying an interesting treatment method on patients. Only the nurses in the hospital know about this method besides the two of them. Serkan, who has recently started working as a doctor, begins to suspect what is happening in the hospital. Meanwhile, Chief Physician Halil plans to lure Deniz, whom he met by chance, into his web and prepare her fate in the same way he did with the others. Will the truth come to light, and will the culprits face their punishment?

Kerim, haunted by past trauma, refuses to speak about what happened in his relationship with Melis. Two years later, they return to the island where their memories lie buried, hoping for a peaceful holiday. Minor tensions grow into tragicomic clashes as silences begin to speak. The vacation spirals into an endless argument; hunger and exhaustion push them to their limits. After an accident, Kerim—so quick to judge others—must confront his own conscience as truth and lies blur. Told in a real-time single sequence from day to night, the film builds relentless tension within the island’s claustrophobic atmosphere.

Oğuz, driven by jealousy, placed a hidden camera in Deniz's house. After noticing something strange in the footage he watched at night, he decided to go to Deniz's house with his friend Cihan.

A complicated relationship begins between a Turkish woman and a German man.

In 2016, a film crew begin the shooting of a documentary called The Women in Purple that investigates the rapid increase of violence against women in Turkey, where more than two women lose their lives every day. Hunting a story of a victim of domestic violence, the members of the crew become victims themselves, hunted within the story, leaving only their footage behind.

Comedian Doğu Demirkol brings generations together and stirs things up with questions guaranteed to spark humorous conflicts.

Set during the Russian Empire’s occupation of the Caucasus, the film follows the heroic struggle of the Caucasian Turks against Tsarist forces. The story centers on Sheikh Shamil, who leads the resistance, and the masked avenger known as the “Caucasian Eagle,” as they confront the brutalities of Commander Boris and navigate complex alliances and betrayals.

Eager in spirit for a better world, an amateur rock band from bohemian Istanbul embarks on an impromptu tour to mainland Turkey, in hopes of sharing their music and love with fellow countrymen.

In the years when the death penalty was still legal in Turkey, Arkın was sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit. Cüneyt, on the other hand, was imprisoned in the same prison for a minor injury offense. However, he frequently received solitary confinement for standing up against injustices in the prison. Arkın also visited the solitary cell from time to time. On the day Cüneyt was to be released, Arkın’s sentence was to be executed. Two days before this, the two prisoners were handcuffed together and transferred to the city center. However, Cabbar, the real perpetrator of the crime for which Arkın was sentenced to death, planned an attack on the transfer vehicle to prevent Arkın from speaking before his execution.

The History of Early Erotic Cinema presents the fascinating historical journey of how, with the invention of the film camera, all the sexual fantasies and fictions previously hidden and repressed in human consciousness were projected onto the screen, breaking existing taboos. It takes viewers on a unique and in-depth journey into the unknown earliest examples of erotic film collections that pushed the boundaries of pornography, and into the understanding and aesthetics of sexuality in the early 1900s. It tells the story of the transformation from amateur films dealing with sexuality during the silent film era to a multi-million dollar pornography industry that commodified and marketed sexuality.

A year after his father’s death, Bahadir, a struggling artist living in Istanbul returns to the small village he grew up in to oversee the weeklong grape harvest. But what he finds is a region at grips with climate change, on the brink of abandonment, and a looming decision to make: part with his family’s heritage or fight to salvage it.

At a very huge farm in the middle of nowhere, two sisters engage in a secret struggle with each other in order to win their mother's love. The family is irreparably shaken on the day the sister gets stuck in the swamp due to an unfortunate accident.

The story of a young man who gets involved in dirty business with a gang in order to get his lame sister treated, and ends up feeling remorseful.