Discoveries from Turkey World Cinema

This documentary describes one of the greatest monuments in the history of world architecture, the historical, cultural and political past of a magnificent building whose history stretches right back to the 4th century.

A girl, troubled by thoughts of her future, fades into the overwhelming darkness of nighttime Istanbul

Niloya and her closest friends always strive to be superheroes. That's why they often play their favorite game, superhero. That day, they had once again made simple costumes and makeup for themselves and were running around the village playing this game. All day long, they looked at everything they saw around them and in nature through the eyes of heroes and tried to save them.

The 1001 Nights, which emerged as folk tales during the reign of Caliph Harun al-Rashid, one of the famous rulers of the Abbasid dynasty, have been the subject of dozens of films. These tales, which have been passed down from generation to generation and have reached us today, have finally been compiled into a single work. In this animated film, the core story of the 1001 Nights is told, and within the story, the adventures of Simbat are also featured. It is an animated film based on the compilations of the 1001 Nights.

A long bedridden disease of Yunus led to the flourishing of new feelings between his wife Emine and his brother Adem. They are about to make a decision in the middle of a journey that they take Yunus to be get cured.

Hüsne Kaya lost her two children in the Sivas Massacre on July 2, 1993, and after these painful losses, a daughter named Menekşe was born. What happened in Sivas that day remains etched in the family's memory, and Menekşe grew up hearing stories about that painful day. Menekşe grows up and decides she wants to get to know her brother and sister, whom she never saw. Pursuing what happened that day, Menekşe begins her journey by reading the book by author Lütfiye Aydın, bringing together those who were at the Madımak Hotel that day and their relatives, allowing us to hear about the pain experienced firsthand. Directed by Soner Yalçın, Menekşe's story of search also includes real footage of what happened at the Madımak Hotel that day.

Elif and her sisters Funda and Aysun have spent much of their adult life coming to terms with a traumatic childhood in which their parents were killed during a bus accident that left the siblings terrified but physically unhurt. In time Funda and Aysun became mentally ill, and it fell to Elif to care for them, but eventually the burden became more than Elif and her husband could bear, and they deserted the siblings, leaving them to an unknown fate. Living in a country with no social safety net, Funda and Aysun fall prey to violence and exploitation, and their reunion with Elif and Yasemin is both poignant and troubling. Yasam Arsizi (aka Sidewalk Sisters) was an official selection at the 2008 Istanbul Film Festival.

Plot TBA; a piece on contemporary alienation inspired by the 1974 cult French film The Man Who Sleeps.

Thirteen years of marriage, childlessness, traditional pressures, and a difficult decision… Hüseyin sells his horse to marry a second wife. However, on Black Wednesday, considered unlucky in Zaza culture, the horse disappears. Hüseyin sets out on a journey through a storm, his search intertwined with the ghost of Zine. When he returns, everything changes with a photograph he sees: Zine is gone. Film is about the unseen cry of abandonment, inner turmoil, and a woman's voice.

The mysterious journey of the Shams Al-Ma'arif book, written by Ahmad al-Buni in the 13th century, which began with its falling into the hands of the Nazis before World War II and has continued as the dark saga of metaphysical intelligence warfare up to the present day.

What happens if a single woman is obliged to bring up a baby without a father in a “modern” city of a conservative country? This autobiographical documentary thoroughly researches social roles of women and intellectualizes social inequality while searching for answers to this question.

Documentary Film by Cengiz Özkarabekir. 3 Hürel episodes of the "Alone" Documentary series... The legendary band of Turkish music history, 3 Hürel only made music in the 1970s. But no musician, no band has been able to fit so much success in such a short time. They are a band that deserves to be legendary. He is our idol...

In a summer town, two best friends wake up to their last day together as one of them is moving abroad.

Ekrem descends into the underworld to dismantle a gang that has dragged his sister Ayten into prostitution, and attempts to bring justice into his own hands.

Emrah, who comes from his village to study in the city, settles in a boarding house. He meets a girl who is studying at the university in the same boarding house, and they fall in love, but as always, problems arise between them.

Emre, who lives a happy life with his family in a charming town, will be forced to move and lose his friends and school due to his father's business going downhill. An amazing team will come together for Emre and save his friends by turning his father's restaurant into the most famous restaurant in Turkey. Of course, the real battle will be against the school's notorious gang, who constantly cause trouble. Adapted from the book "Child's Heart."

TRT - Ömer Seyfettin Stories

The sudden discovery of his son's secret turns Ibrahim's traditional world upside down. Fraught with emotional conflict he takes Ismail on a fateful trip. Inspired by the biblical story of Prophet Abraham, father of all patriarchs, and his son Ismail set in present-day Cyprus, unraveling the conservative facade of the society.

A woman of Turkish ascent, following ancient Anatolian healing rites, dreams her way through fragments of memory, both personal and collective. Guided by a mythological character, Kheiron the Centaur, she travels freely between the ruins of an ancient Roman hospital and the streets of a mountain village, high above the river Euphrates. Time and space become dislocated, opening up passages between worlds. An inner experience translated into a film poem, KAZARKEN explores memory as a place of struggle against oblivion and the violence of hidden history.

Karl Marx returning to the modern world to advocate for his vindicated theories while providing a self-critique

The story of two young girls who love the same man. One of them will make a sacrifice and bury her love in her heart.

A super-powered woman goes on a reign of terror.

The story of a character named Fatma, the difficulties in her life and the family dynamics.

Öte is a Turkish word that means beyond. Lela, a Black woman, backpacking across Turkey connects with locals more deeply than she expected and finds herself drawn to stay.

A morning of a lonely, loser young man and his meaningless life

The story of a driver who meets the girl he saw in his dream.

The events that happened to Recep and Saban who came to Istanbul for the first time.

A Turkish version of Straw Dogs (1971), set in a small Cypriot village in the days before the 1974 Turkish invasion.

Horror film directed by Kemal Danaci.

“If you speak in a low voice, no one hears you.” Two narrow alleys in Istanbul. A crowd of men, yelling. Screaming, shouting, chaotic gesticulation, grimacing faces, a deafening buzz of wild voices. The verbal noise dominates the scene. A communicative situation, incomprehensible at first to the alien bystander who doesn’t speak the language. Apparently they are traders, I find out. And they call it “the walking stock market”. But what does it really mean? “Today it’s a very quiet day. Everything is still at rest."

Feature documentary film "Leave The Door Open" is about how a love of Jazz led two young sons of a Turkish diplomat posted to Washington DC in the late 1930s and 1940s to smash through racial barriers and segregation.

A Turkish short film.

After her death, a young woman named Lena awakens in a mysterious realm beyond the world. Guided through doors that reveal fragments of earthly stories, she discovers how even the smallest events carry profound consequences. As the threads intertwine with her own life, Lena must face a final choice: be reborn, or confront the weight of her past.