Discoveries from Turkey World Cinema

A sequel to the 2015 film Mihrez: Cin Padişahi.

As we go into the past of Turkish Cinema, we come across a history full of obscurity and uncertainties, which has been narrated by film writers. The purpose of realizing this project is to reveal the wrong or incompletely known “firsts”. Based on the documents produced by cinema historians, one of the main goals was to scan the newspapers and magazines of the period from some missing parts to the whole, or to clarify some of the discussed issues. From the first screening venue to the first women on the silver screen and the stage, from the first color film to the first films that were screened, this documentary takes a journey from stop to stop, like a reference to the trains of the Lumières, which is made with an academic point of view, revealing the "true or incompletely known mistakes" with documents.

A man and his son work together as officers in a lighthouse in Istanbul. The son is bitten by a dog before his duty and as time passes by, he begins to behave strange and in the meantime women at the home begin to worry about this man and his son since the light of lighthouse is not turned on.

Heper's 7-minute short "Dawn" follows, in a single space between two windows, a triangular love relationship of three people.

Ra'na dreams of owning a motor boat. But she can't buy it by fishing and selling the caught fish...

The story of a minibus driver who married a restaurant worker who had been raped in order to save her honor, despite his family's opposition...

Yankı is a 17-year-old gay boy. He is under pressure because of his sexual orientation from the neighborhood and his mother. One day, his mom and a neighbor decide to solve this problem. (Wicked Queer Film Festival 2020)

The tragic conflict between Korkut, a history student working in the library, and a dark shaman of Altai Turkic descent.

Cumali spends his time preparing to ask for a girl's hand in marriage for his son Cevher. Just then, he receives some shocking news. The land where his grandfather's retirement home stands has been sold, and a shopping mall will be built in its place. To convince his grandfather to change his mind, Cumali must first reconcile with him. Believing that giving his grandfather the family heirloom watch will lead to reconciliation, Cumali sets out to retrieve the watch from his brother-in-law Çetin. Along the way, Cumali finds himself caught up in an unexpected love story and adventure.

On August 10, 1978, a coffeehouse frequented by leftists in Ankara was raided. Even the strict rule in the country could not prevent this and similar atrocities. A few hours after the incident, which would later be known as the Balgat Massacre, the police detained many young nationalists in the surrounding neighborhoods whom they believed to be connected to the incident. Among those detained was Mustafa Pehlivanoğlu, who was only 20 years old at the time. Mustafa's detention marked the beginning of a legal battle for his mother, Zeynep, and his father, Ahmet Bey. Years later, Mustafa Pehlivanoğlu was sentenced to death by a court established by the September 12 Military Coup and was executed one morning without his parents even knowing about it...

The transformation of Konur Street over time is examined by interviewing people closely involved in the issue, using scenes in which the characters of the street are identified, and observing the natural flow of the street. It tells about the change of Konur Street with the contribution of archival footage.

The story of Tarık, caught between two girls. Tarık gets involved with both Nazan and Sibel without knowing that they are sisters, but Nazan is already in a relationship with another man and has a child with him, which Tarık ends up having to deal with.

An experimental documentary based on photographs of the director's grandfathers whom he never had the chance to meet, his grandmothers, and the stories they told.

The film is about the deceleration of motion in linear form and speed, establishing a connection between space and love. It ends with high-contrast photos with increasingly drastic color changes. This short film, inspired by Brakhage's Stellar film, was created by manipulating 1750 space photos in Photoshop along with grotesque paintings. Some frames contain black paintings by Francisco Goya, grotesque drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, grotesque engravings by William Blake. In order to refer to Brakhage's poetic style and understanding of storytelling in experimental cinema, two poems by Frank O'Hara and Kenneth Koch are placed in the beginning and end of the film.

With the images of the past, today's music and sounds intertwine. Sailboats, dinghies, ferries, fountains, secluded streets, streets with crowds of people, people standing and staring. The waters, streets, faces of a lost, no more Istanbul ...

Hasan, who lives with his family in Urfa, takes over his father's business. He then goes to Istanbul for work. There, he falls in love with a woman he meets. They spend time together. He then returns home. However, he cannot get her out of his mind. He leaves his family and returns to Istanbul. But Hasan's happiness will be short-lived.

“Birdhouse” is a mix media installation in which the artist performs the song “Sensiz Bensiz”, written by Hikmet Münir Ebcioğlu and composed by Teoman Alpay in 1969. Based on the Turkish actress Türkan Şoray's melodramatic performance in the movie "Aşk Mabudesi", where she famously lip-syncs to the song, Tuncay transforms himself into an undefined character.

The story of two friends, a gambler and a womanizer, who can't seem to escape their troubles.

Her life turning upside down with her diagnosis with metastatic breast cancer, Canan regrets everything she missed in her life and decides to do whatever afterwards. Following the joy of life she reaches, she thanks to her cancer and establishes Turkey’s first MBC Association while she extraordinarily completes years with the disease.

The film depicts the generation gap between grandfather Mustafa, who misses the old days, and his grandson, Harun, who does not see a life without internet as possible.

The jokes in the Yerli ve Kirli show are from my set that I have been using since 2018.

Only time passes.

Nil commits suicide by throwing herself into the cool waves of the sea and wakes up to find herself trapped in her mind. Unable to understand what is going on between her consciousness and reality, Nil fights with her mother who she has been running away from all her life. While she thinks that the reality she is running from is her mother, she fails to realize that the reality she cannot accept is much closer..

Rising star Edis's career journey with ups and downs.

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.

Video-documentary about Istanbul taxi drivers. Traffic reveals the character of the big city, reflects the behavior patterns. For many people it is part of the boring routine, but for others it is a way of life. 34 Taxi is a video-documentary work that tells Istanbul from the point of view of taxi drivers. The film, shot mostly during the journeys, is based on the conversations of taxi drivers with their customers.

Kenan, who lost his mother at birth, witnessed his father's murder by strangers when he was ten years old. Left alone in the whirlpool of life after being thrown onto the streets by his orphanhood, he continued his life with two friends he met during his childhood, who would never leave him alone. Having spent his childhood on the streets, Kenan continues his life with two friends he met during the same period, who will never leave him alone. When he reaches his teenage years, an old family friend who reaches out to him will completely change the fate of Kenan and his friends. Finding himself in a ruthless and corrupt world, Kenan will strive to find his way out of this dark life and into the light.

Adil Hoca, a retired elementary school teacher, has been assigned to his hometown. While waiting for his retirement, he receives a hard slap from a young police officer in the town, and his pride is severely hurt. Determined to ensure that justice is served by having the young police officer punished, Adil Hoca does not let the slap go. He embarks on a difficult struggle, eventually achieves his goal, and turns the police slap—which everyone had told him to "forget about"—into a "national issue" by making it known throughout the country.

Nergis goes to another city just to get away from everything she wants to get away from, but unfortunately takes all the feelings she wants to get away from with her.

Safiye, Murat's mother, who is in her mid-thirties, goes to a teacher and has an amulet written to open her son's destiny. Meanwhile, Murat falls in love with Pelin, whom he meets by chance on the street. As a result of fate and magic colliding, Murat and Pelin begin to have the same nightmares. When Safiye realizes something is wrong, she goes back to the scholar, who this time performs a Vefk spell. The Vefk spell causes the situation to become increasingly complicated.

The film tells the story of three friends who travel to Cyprus for work. Close friends Cüneyt, Aytekin, and Aykut receive a job offer. Suat Bey, a wealthy businessman, has had his wife kidnapped to the Greek side of Cyprus. Suat Bey promises to pay the three friends a substantial amount of money in exchange for bringing his wife back. The three friends, who are trying to find the woman, will go through many events.

Ilyas who works in an old gas station one day, on the way home, notices that a robot does his job. This will have an effect on Ilyas and thinks about the robot more every day.