Discoveries from Turkey World Cinema

A family gather together for a dinner one day before their son is disch arged from prison because of political a phone call during dinner starts a tension betwen family members. The news about operations in prisons who came in morning and the father thinks that the responsible one is the mother brought an internal faud betwen family members. The excitement of being dischharged turns into the anxiety of death.

Hamia: Muskanin Cinn-i tells the story of a man who makes his living by making amulets.

Horror Screen: Evil Spirit tells the story of a couple who enter a cursed house to produce content.

The film is about the story of Ihsan Polat whose job is to lighten the darkness “with his own words.” He is the first end last Braille repairmen of Turkey. It is mentioned about that blind people can use their fingers just like their eyes and they read the books by touching them. It is expressed that braille is very important for their own world. IhsanPolat is lightening their world by means of this job.

Veysel has never slept in his life. He sees this ability as a deficiency. Therefore, he hides this situation from everyone. He works at a luxury hotel to spend his free time at night. One night, one of the customers staying at the hotel notices Veysel's situation and a conversation begins between them.

Oguz wakes up with a phone call from his ex-girlfriend. Shocked by the news she gave him, he decides to call an escort to distract himself. Series of absurd coincidences lead him to confront all that he has been trying to escape.

A cowboy-like man living in the center of the city... A madman who followed Yılmaz Güney from Adana during Yeşilçam's Western-style, noodle-style cowboy film era...

David, an American Kurdologist, traces a beloved poem to a hole-in-the-wall bar in Kurdistan and finds himself immersed in a world of poetry.

This documentary depicts the life of Safa Önal, who has wrote 400 scenarios during his almost a century-long life, directed 36 movies, entered The Guinness Book of Records within his 395-filmed scenario, and virtually a living history. It focuses more on Yeşilçam adventure of Önal, who witnessed blackout nights in his childhood; started writing during his secondary school years and worked for many years in the Babıali; established friendship with master writers such as Peyami Safa, Özdemir Asaf, Kemal Tahir; and his path intersected with names such as Yahya Kemal, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, and Necip Fazıl Kısakürek.

The film is about a king and queen who have been under a spell for a thousand years, and the lifting of this spell.

'Haftasonu' tells the story of Hasan, who travels to Cyprus after many years following the death of his father. As he spends a weekend in his childhood village, his sense of belonging and identity will be questioned by all within. Following a festival run in 2016 and 2017, the film is now available for viewing here: https://vimeo.com/161152843

With his family on vacation, Can invites over his cousin Burak, Burak's lover Eylül, and his platonic love Hazal. At first, everything's fun, but Can begins to feel that something strange in Hazal. He secretly places cameras in every corner of the house. Can regularly examines the cameras, witnessing many terrifying events and uncovers the dark secret of Hazal's past.

The story of what happened to a cigarette addict.

Two friends' banter is interrupted when they hear someone break into their apartment.

Osman's fight with the mafia, who lost his father at a young age.

A gang escapes to a remote mansion after a botched robbery, believing it to be a perfect hiding spot. But supernatural forces soon haunt them, making them pay for their crimes one by one.

A thought-provoking documentary that can serve as an important reminder for those who are aware and a grain of wisdom for those who are lost. It doesn't matter who we are, where we come from, what color our skin is, what religion we practice, or whether our land has preserved all these traditions. Each of us has something to remember. The author returns the viewer to our roots and such values ​​as family, honor, the experience of ancestors, respect for elders, humanity, kindness, friendship, and spiritual purity.

March 8, 2020: A Memoir is a multi-voiced desktop essay attempting to find the blind spots of ’Touristic Cameras’ looking at Taksim Square during the Feminist Night March. A child playing with a red balloon, youngsters dancing on the street, people taking photos... Time traveling via screen recordings, this is a memoir of the last demonstration in Istanbul before the pandemic.

The man sits next to a godmother who he owes, for negotiation. The Godmother gives him one last chance to save his own life.

Making of documentary of Kasaba is an interesting footage showing how you can shoot a feature with just a focus puller. Yes, the whole crew consist of two people only. Ceylan himself and a focus puller. And that is 35mm pelicule times and black and white Kodak film. Turkish with optional English subtitles.

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?

Life in a Kurdish village in Eastern Turkey is routine for Grandfather Hamit every day for the last 5 years he visits his wife’s grave. political problems force hamit and the other villagers to leave their village. grandfather hamit and his son’s family want to go to germany.

The final film in the Phobia Trilogy follows Selim, who suffers from psychological issues due to parental trauma he experienced in his childhood, as he continues his routine life but finds himself caught up in unexpected events when his phobias are triggered during a journey.

After killing a young woman during a protest, Abd is sent to a remote stable to hide his identity. When a newly arrived horse escapes into the wilderness, he is forced to track it down, only to encounter haunting signs that connect the animal to the woman he killed. As guilt and reality begin to blur, Abd is drawn into a strange and unsettling confrontation with his own violence.

Three friends, three pairs of skis, one goal: to explore the unexpected. The film takes us to the heart of a wild and surprising Turkey, from the Mediterranean coast to the snow-capped peaks of Kaçkar, to the borders of Iraq. Between challenging descents, memorable encounters, and the discovery of a fascinating culture, this film transcends skiing to become a genuine invitation to travel, meet new people, and push oneself beyond one's limits.

A year after the finale of "Kurtlar Vadisi Aze" TV series, Zaur returns from Germany. Upon learning the identity of Farid's assassinator from a long-time acquaintance, Zaur and his friend Ali embark on a journey to avenge Farid's death. Unaware of the secret offensive robotic technology that was developed by Faruk Mafia's scientists, Zaur and Ali find themselves in trouble while trying to perceive data about the killer's location.

The story of a father and his two children continuing their life far away from other people in a world where no girls are born anymore for an unknown reason.

The documentary traces the life of Yervant Demirci, a fourth-generation blacksmith, from his beginnings in Mardin Derik to his life in Armenia. Like all Armenians in Mardin Derik, Demirci began his life speaking Kurdish, his native language, without knowing Armenian. He continued his life in Istanbul Samatya, learning Turkish at school, and when he wanted to go to Armenia, he continued his struggle to learn Armenian.

A documentary about Aziz Nesin.

The story of a former movie actor who has lost his fame and fallen into depression, and the bar hostess he is in love with.

Colony is a film about psychogeography, the memory of landscape, trauma and remembrance.