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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.
The film tells the story of eleven Turkish Cypriot workers who left their homes in a bus in 1964 that never came back. Their remains were found in a well in Cyprus in October 2006.
Rabia, a young woman, lives with her mother and her ailing grandmother while struggling with the traumas of her past. Trapped between the constant voices of her mother and grandmother, she leads a suppressed and constricted life. When the man she once loved, Fatih, marries her cousin Zehra, her inner world completely collapses. Her repressed anger and guilt take physical form through a small “hangnail” that appears at the edge of her fingernail.
The second film in the series about the life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk tells the story of his journey from the Thessaloniki Military Preparatory School to the Tripoli War through the eyes of a group of friends traveling from the present to the past.
The world is struggling with the terrible virus epidemic. Cities of many countries around the world have been quarantined. One of these cities is Istanbul. People struggling to get out of the quarantined city of Istanbul also strive not to get caught in this terrible virus.
A triptych of literary adaptations explores past, present and future in rural Turkey. “Düne Özlem” (from Hulki Aktunç’s Bir Yergöstericinin Hayatı): A once-famed traveling critic returns after years to the cinema that launched his career—and finds it unrecognizably transformed. “Bugüne Özlem” (from Kemal Tahir’s Arabacı): A horse-drawn cart driver picks up two stranger women en route to a village—unaware they intend to marry him off to their spinster relative. “Yarına Özlem” (from Zeyyat Selimoğlu’s Bıldırcınlar): An old captain haunted by a fatal shipwreck readies quail-hunting with his grandson, even as his daughter-in-law waits in vain for her migrant husband to return from Germany. Each segment poignantly probes longing— for what was, what is, and what might yet come.
The film tells the story of a fishmonger, who is in love with a beatiful young woman. They prepare for the marriage but all the happiness is destroyed by one bad guy.
The story of a sex offender who committed murders by changing his clothes.
A social anthropologist and a convicted criminal who got deported from Germany engage in a dialogue to tell the story of many Turkish migrants from Germany who returned to Turkey to live a better life.
Pepee disappears in the skies of Turkey with the technological hot air balloon he produced in his grandfather's laboratory. This flying technological balloon takes Pepee first to Adıyaman-Nemrut, Urfa-Göbeklitepe, and finally to Cappadocia. Will Pepee be able to escape all the trouble he has gotten into and return home? Will he be able to find the truth? Most importantly, will he be able to understand how important and valuable love and unity are?
Fazilet becomes all alone after the death of her young daughter who was ill since a long time. While trying to cope with the feeling of death, she will find herself in a difficult pursuit after finding a package left from her daughter. With each door she rings in order to obtain some info about it, the package will be more important for Fazilet.
An expanding wound from beyond. A scientist questioning reality itself. A woman becoming the site of something older than time.
Planning to settle in Germany, Dr. Kemal travels to his village one last time to say goodbye to his father. However, events in the village lead him to an unexpected impasse. This impasse forces Kemal to confront his past and his own conscience. Ultimately, he is forced to make the difficult decision of whether to leave or stay.
White Collar Peasants First they worked to get accepted into the best schools, then to get a job in the best institutions and to work in the best positions... They are white-collar workers. Perhaps, it’s because all the glass in the plazas they work in creates this greenhouse effect, but almost all of them are trying settle in a village or their hometown and realize their dream of an "organic life".. Oddly, those who settle in the countryside continue their lives by selling their products to their friends in the city. Are organic, ecological, nature-integrated lives really as they appear on social media? Why do white-collar workers in cities migrate to villages? How long do those who go to the village stay there? What are they living? And what are they doing now? Let's follow the real story of the white-collar peasants...
Looking after the old books and stuff store after her father’s death, Serin lives in her own routine. Spending most of her time working, it’s like she almost closed herself in the store. With the moment Deniz walks into her life, Serin is filled with new urges and strong will to discover.
The value of time is meaningful while we are alive. When we die, timelessness comes. Death must be remembered so that the value of time may be known. Life ends in the blink of an eye.
The film follows the events that unfold when a music academy student struggling with nightmares becomes curious about them and begins to investigate.
Zehra Ana, who is in her seventies, is an elderly woman who has spent most of her life in a village. When her entire family moves to the city, she is forced to leave her village as well. Zehra Ana lives with her eldest son Kerim, following family traditions. Unable to adjust to city life, Zehra Ana is later diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. The illness deeply affects both Zehra Ana and her son Kerim. Despite having five siblings, Kerim takes sole responsibility for his mother's care and does everything he can for her.
Ekrem, a young man, has an accident in a village. Papatya and her father Ahmet, who pass by the scene of the accident, take the injured Ekrem to their home and try to heal him. Ekrem, who meets Papatya in this way, takes a liking to the young woman. Ekrem, who deceives Papatya with the promise of marriage, convinces the young woman to go to Istanbul.
When a wave of dismissals follows the attempted coup in Turkey, Yasemin, a doctor, and Engin, a teacher, are among those who suddenly find themselves on the streets.
A man with a mining factory does not pay the workers money.
The story of a passionate love affair between a disabled farm owner who lost his manhood in an accident and his young wife's lover.
An unforgettable era. The story of the birth of an epic state and its heroes that etched the name "Turk" into history.
Ali Kazma places human nature and labor at the center of the 'Obstructions' series, in which he deals with the trades and production techniques that typically remain in the background. In the video 'Taxidermist' from this series, the artist shows a taxidermist in Germany who stuffs game animals.
Some people carried a severe possessed girl with locked wooden box to cure her.
A docufiction experiment that focuses on the invisible bonds Kendal forms with the city, his physical presence, and his ways of holding on to life in the streets, beyond the identity imposed by his solvent addiction.
It tells the story of Meryem, who goes in search of Ali, who is researching extraterrestrials, after her disappearance.
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.
Ayşim, who graduated from the boarding school she attended fourteen years ago, faints when she returns home. Dr. Tarık, who comes to the house to examine her, says that Ayşim needs attention. The people living in the house try to be kind to the young girl. However, Ömer, the head of the household, is not happy about Ayşim's return. Ömer's constant attempts to belittle Ayşim begin to unsettle everyone in the house. Ayşim, who is trying to adjust to life at home, begins to realize that the others are hiding something from her.
The story of a police chief. The police chief, who has a tough but honest personality, marries the girl he loves. Some time later, it turns out that his father-in-law is a leading member of a mafia gang. The police chief goes after his father-in-law. Because of this incident, the happy life between the police chief and his wife turns into various conflicts, but in the end, everything works out.
A street artist surviving through art fraud discovers, for the first time, what it truly means to leave an authentic mark — after crossing paths with a mysterious painter.
Composer Erdem Helvacıoğlu recorded sounds at three different locations around İstanbul and turned them into compositions. This film documents a journey in pursuit of sounds.
