Discoveries from Turkey World Cinema

The paths of Demir, an idealistic advertising writer approaching his 40s, and a rap enthusiast Dagra, who is in his 20s somehow cross. Together they embark on an interesting road to regain their lost respect for life.

Merve and Ozge are best friends but Ozge loves Ozan who is married with Merve. Ozge does dark magic stuff for killing Merve and being darling of Ozan. Semur (a kind of evil) come from dark to kill Merve.

A ruthless gangster dispenses justice according to his own code of honor.

The story of a husband and wife who deserve it after almost every sentence they utter. This couple is perhaps the purest, most extreme example of the type of people we often see around us—those who should be content with their circumstances but instead are constantly "crying" and "complaining," who should be able to lean back and sigh with relief but instead utter a thousand "ahs" when touched. The husband in this couple is Arif Bey, a wealthy businessman, also known as "Weeping Arif."

Kara Murat goes to Byzantium with two soldiers named Ömer and Cafer. Emperor Constantine will make Prince Orhan the Ottoman ruler after Sultan Murat II dies. Actually, it is Prince Mehmet II's turn. If Orhan becomes the ruler, Prince Mehmet must be killed because he is a friend of Byzantium.

Three supermen and one woman battle a band of Hooded henchmen, Bikini clad Assassins and a wacky robot all in the service of satan himself!

When an aging matriarch starts showing signs of dementia, her dysfunctional family in Istanbul must navigate a minefield of unresolved issues to care for her.

Sawdust Tales is a whimsical and timeless parable on survival in hard times and the force of a first love against all odds. In a timeless no-mans land scarred by social decay and imminent war, a circus troupe awaits the arrival of the mysterious Rupert who is to deliver them from danger into a better world. The old and wise tightrope master keeps a watchful, loving eye on his young apprentice who, to his concern, could be drafted into the army at any moment. To make matters worse, the boy falls in love with a mermaid...

Three very different siblings reunite in their hometown Tokat after their father's mysterious death, where shifting alliances, buried memories, and tangled bonds reveal that nothing about their past is as they believed.

The lives of Erdem, Sevil, and their children Edip and Sevgi in a small town change when they move to Istanbul after Sevil's mother suffers a stroke. Edip has been away from home for ten years, attending boarding school, while Erdem continues to dream of becoming a successful writer. Noticing Sevgi's withdrawal and unhappiness, and suspicious of her sudden changes in behavior, Sevil begins to question some of the events taking place within the home and discovers a secret that has been hidden behind closed doors for years. When Erdem loses his life in a traffic accident, his death leads to the emergence of new secrets within the family. Each member of the small family is left to face the truths they must carry alone for the rest of their lives. What is this secret they cannot even confess to themselves?

Semih, who was discharged from the army a month early for his "heroism" in operations in the southeast, encounters his brother's funeral on the day he returns from the army. When he sets out to find his brother's killer, Semih is drawn into another battle filled with difficult questions. As he searches for the truth, he will realize that what was lost was not just his brother's life, but also the harsh reality of lives doomed to be lost in "The Other Istanbul," fueled by anger and helplessness.

Kahpe Bizans tells us the story of Yetis Bey (Cem Davran) and his struggle with Byzantian Emperor (Illetyus) in a humorous way.

To escape her father's pressure to get married, Melike tells a lie and makes a deal with Ali, a charming con man, for a two-month fake marriage in exchange for money. However, Ali demands to move his own unrefined family into Melike's house as part of the deal. With women constantly chasing Ali, items mysteriously disappearing from the house, and an over-the-top fake mother-in-law, things quickly spiral out of control for Melike. Despite the ongoing chaos and her constant bickering with Ali, she must keep up the charade to avoid getting caught by her father and being forced to marry a complete stranger.

Mithat passionately collects newspapers in his Istanbul flat. The other tenants ridicule him and he lives a lonely life. As the building is to be renovated, Mithat develops a friendship with concierge Ali, another loner, who helps him save his collection. They involuntarily change each other’s fate.

Cihangir and Hakan are brothers who earn their living by running a snack bar in their father's shop. One of their regular customers is a courier transporting illegal proceeds. The brothers' lives completely transformes when he dies in the snack bar's back storage area.

Servet the accountant makes a plan to steal money from a client. He decides to get his brother-in-law Gökhan involved to use his account for the money transfer. When two more friends Meatball Necmi and Del Piero are added to the plan, things start going bad.

Ali Osman is a former bully of city of Istanbul. But lately he gives up bully and starts to operate a synthetic pitch. He often meets his old friends, former bullies, too. One day Ali Osman receives a news which is related with his previous passionate life. Then the whole action stats as a chain of events.

After a tragic miscarriage, Nimet -a middle aged woman- gets stuck in the conservative society in Istanbul while her beloved younger sister Öznur carries a burden of her own in the family, trying to struggle her own demons.

Çınar, who lives in Istanbul, dreams of participating in a music competition. However, his plans are disrupted by his father's decision to return to the village. Çınar and his ultra-intelligent sister Zeynep find themselves in hilarious situations as they try to adapt to village life. Eventually, the friends they make far from the city will show them the importance of friendship. Will Çınar and Zeynep be able to adjust to village life? And will they be able to defeat the city dwellers in the music competition with their new friends and achieve their dreams?

Eda and Cenk are a young couple who met and married during their college years. Their happiness is sealed when Eda learns she is expecting a baby. However, as her pregnancy progresses, Eda begins to experience unusual events. A soul stuck between heaven and hell has returned to earth to seek revenge. As Eda struggles to awaken from this relentless nightmare, an unprecedented horror will engulf the young couple.

Burdened by troubles and caught between cultures, Riza takes a job as a mall Santa and finds that real life may not be so different from make believe.

Fikret works at the library. He is married and has a ten-year-old son. He literally has a routine life. With his wife leaving home, he loses his ability to continue his daily life. His son suddenly finds himself in the position of his father's father. The film tells the story of a father with high functioning autism and his "normal" son.

5 best friends, in search of finding ways to get rich, finally find a lot of gold in the forest. Just as they think they finally did it, they get in trouble with a German godfather who kidnapped one of them since he wanted the gold. The besties finally save their friend and return their usual loser days.

Brothers Kenan and Sinan Yeşilyaprak, both officers in the Turkish army, have been conflicted since birth. Their father was a prominent — later persecuted — general and their mother a member of the oft-discriminated-against Kurdish minority.

A pair of new parents navigate postpartum life following the birth of their first child.

When a man invites his friend who lives in Germany to be his best man in their wedding, this guest falls in love with his fiance.

Musa, a customs clerk, sees life as absurd. He drifts with events; his mother's death, though loved, brings him strange joy.

The film is about a father and son, both notorious gangsters, reuniting after many years. Hasan, a notorious gangster, works for Osman, a heroin smuggler. After years of involvement in dirty business, Hasan decides to leave the mafia at the insistence of his wife. However, this decision disrupts Osman's entire plan. As a result, Osman kills Hasan's wife, forcing him into a murder he did not want to commit. After spending a long time in prison, Hasan is now elderly when he is released. Moreover, there are many young gangsters in the underworld. Among them, Kadir stands out, striking fear into drug dealers. Hasan will first clash with Kadir.

It is 80's Turkey, local musicians of Adiyaman are hired by the military and trained to welcome one of the forceful generals of coup regime.

Murat is a handsome tour guide. He takes a job on the mob leader Temel's boat. Temel's wife Sadiye fancies him, and Murat is also attracted to her beauty. They start an affair and meet in the boat when Temel is absent. For money laundering purposes, Temel transfers all his assets to Sadiye. However, Temel finds about Sadiye's affair with Murat. He assaults Sadiye and in return Sadiye wants to kill him. When Murat learns that Temel has hurt Sadiye, he kills Temel. Sadiye finds his gun and reports Murat to the police, as she is tired of him as well. Murat understands that he has been used by Sadiye in her dirty plot. He is very disappointed and Sadiye's life will turn into a nightmare.

Pregnant high school student Mira (17) agreed with Serpil (36) and Ayaz (40) to give her baby up for adoption. Mira comes to the family to spend the last days of her pregnancy. Since the couple Ayaz and Serpil lie to the people around them that Serpil is pregnant, the whole process is carried out secretly. But events develop that they did not plan, and now the three of them are left alone with a deep secret that they have to keep inside.

The story follows Güven, who works as a manager at an accounting firm in Kavşak. Güven, who has a happy marriage, sees his routine life begin to unravel when the new department manager, Arzu, moves into his office. Meanwhile, the landlord's son is trying to reach an agreement with a contractor to demolish the house they are living in, and accounting clerk Haydar is embezzling company funds. A small slip-up in Güven's life, combined with Arzu's uncontrollable curiosity, causes events to unfold like a snowball effect, leaving Güven cornered.

Yaprak and Ali, members of the crazy gang, are now together, but they don't have the courage to tell the others about their relationship. Barış, who has joined the gang in a manner befitting him, is determined to make things even more difficult for Ali. The team’s rebellious member Gökhan will have to pay a price to be with the girl of his dreams, while the womanizer Sinan, who has lost all his charm in the presence of women, will question his concept of beauty. Oğuz, who is usually the source of problems, will this time be the victim of a misunderstanding and will give his mother Zeliş Sultan her worst nightmare. Amidst all this, Yaprak will try to solve the mystery of the mysterious gifts she receives while also facing a difficult test of love and friendship.

A poet, who works as a waiter to make ends meet, postures as a female singer to end a blood feud between two families.

After losing his great love Duygu and spiraling into despair despite directing the film İncir Reçeli, Metin’s nights of singing his own songs at a bar take a turn when newcomer bartender Gizem arrives. Both scarred by past heartbreaks, Metin and Gizem must learn to trust and heal if they are to discover whether a new love can blossom between them.

Ilyas Bazna works as a butler in the British Embassy in Turkey during WW2. After Bazna starts to work as a German spy he is going to experience a series of unexpected events.

Esra leads two parallel lives. In her daily life the vivacious and spirited Esra adores her family but feels caged in her relationships. In her dream life, she yearns to discover the identity of the man who visits her dreams. While in waking life she struggles in vain, in her dream life she evolves in secret. But what if waking and dreaming were never separate and the real secret is shored by all?

In a wooded area, the bodies of many young people who died for different reasons are found. A young commissioner with severe insomnia is tasked with solving these murders.

He is a civil servant in the bland state office. His whole life changes when his reports get mixed up in the hospital and he gets news that he's going to die very soon.

Askin Dünkü Çocuklari, tells a bittersweet love story from the 70s to the present day, blending it with the social issues of the period.

The film tells the story of Selma's confrontation with reality. Selma and Kemal are a happily married couple. Kemal leaves town for a business meeting. During this time, a mysterious phone call comes in. Ceyda, who is dying in the hospital, has one last wish: to see Kemal. Ceyda's friend Sevda makes some allegations about Kemal to Selma, who has come to the hospital in place of her husband. Determined to uncover the truth, Selma begins to investigate Kemal's past. She will encounter things she never expected.

Demir Kadın Neslican tells the life story of "Iron Woman" Neslican Tay, who gave hope to people with her struggle to cling to life while undergoing cancer treatment. The film recounts the difficult treatment process that began when she was diagnosed with cancer, revealing Neslican's experiences during this period and her struggle to cling to life.

Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, set in Istanbul, the tragic story of three heroes chasing an unlikely dream, running towards their sad end in a Shakespearean manner.

German photographer Daniel Bert, who comes to Istanbul to do photo shoots, meets Can, who is a zenne at a nightclub, and Ahmet, who comes from a conservative eastern family.

Suna, who attracts attention with her beauty and personality, goes on vacation with her friend Ayla, who has severed her ties with romantic relationships. This vacation brings out their sexual desires and drags them into an unwanted predicament.

Sener and Müjde, who can never come together because of endless obstacles and misunderstandings, slowly drift into the plaintive world of arabesque music.

Ankara, 1999. Arzu takes one call after another in the sex call centre where she works. When an earthquake hits Istanbul, a young client she spoke to earlier phones her back, begging her to rescue him from the rubble.

Isa is blamed for a robbery. He is badly beaten and given twenty four hours to return the money. Instead of finding the money, Isa finds a gun.

Bahram is a 40-year-old filmmaker who’s spent his entire career making films in Turkish-Azeri, none of which have ever been screened in Iran. His latest work, once again denied permission by the Ministry of culture, pushes him to the edge of defiance. With his sharp-tongued, Vespa-riding producer Sadaf by his side, he embarks on an underground mission to showcase his film to an Iranian audience, dodging government censors, absurd bureaucracy, and his own self- doubts.

A group of women in a small village get organized against the macho men of the town.

In a small, poor village leaning over high rocky mountains, the villagers are simple and diligent people who struggle to cope with a harsh nature. They earn their living off the earth and a few animals they feed. Fathers always prefer one of their sons. Mothers command their daughters ruthlessly. Ömer, the son of the imam, wishes hopelessly for the death of his father. When he understands that wishful thinking does not have any concrete results, he begins to search for childish ways to kill his father. Yakup is in love with his teacher, and one day after seeing his father spying on the teacher he dreams too, like Ömer, of killing his father. Yıldız studies and tries to manage the household chores imposed by her mother. She learns with irritation about the secrets of the relationship between men and women.

Kemal is a guard at an empty villa belonging to a dark businessman outside the city. One night, he finds a book called IDEA, left by someone whose face he cannot see, on the bus he occasionally goes to the city. After, Kemal’s life begins to turn to hell in a way that he could never understand.

Ishak, a wandering musician from a small mountain town. A lynching he was a part of 7 years ago comes back to haunt him as he returns to his town to say farewell to his dying mother. Facing the other five perpetrators--his childhood friends—as well as the community and government officials supporting them, Ishak struggles with the guilt weighing upon him. However, the bigger the crime is, the stronger the silence gets since everyone has blood on their hands.

Hacer recently joined a factory where Hasan works and brings hope to her life. The two get married. Hacer is worried about the working conditions in the factory; she has a relationship with Hasan after she establishes a relationship with the union. Because of their disagreements, they are driven towards disaster.

Cem and Ali, two buddies, find themselves in the middle of a mafia showdown at a party where they are DJing. Not knowing what to do, the pair try to escape by putting on women's clothes they find in the costume room. But a perverted member of the mafia takes them to a resort and holds them captive, and the pair suddenly find themselves working as entertainers at a hotel. During their first attempt to escape the hotel, they see 20 girls who have come to the hotel for a beauty pageant and are stunned. They don't want to leave this paradise-like environment. But flirting with girls and living as women is difficult. Even when they try to escape from the hotel a second time, the duo, who have fallen in love with Cansu and Ebru from the TV crew, stay at the hotel. Meanwhile, the mafia also arrives at the hotel.

In the final episode of the Cille series, 15 years after Kayra handed over the crown to Rehzen, a tribe from the seas brought technology to the world of humans and Ezakis. After making humans and Ezakis dependent on technology, the tribe, wanting to reap the rewards, organizes a final feast to take over all of Cille. To prevent the loss of the Cilles, the last hope for a world depleted of energy resources after a nuclear war, Kayra and his friends are forced to wage a major war against this tribe in the year 2069.