Discoveries from Turkey World Cinema

Many people think they have survived solitude through technology. They take advantage of it anytime, anywhere. What if, on the contrary, it isolates the persons from their surroundings and makes them more lonely?

This film is about a father and his two autistic children. Father and his children get on ferry in a wintry day. They meet with some disappointing incidents in their short trip. Due to some impatient passengers' reactions to his children's unintentional actions, father feels sad and loses his hope.

Güzide is a tailor. She has a routine life, strictly adheres to his own rules. One day Leyla comes to Güzide's house with a little girl. Leyla asks Güzide to take care of the child for a few days, says that she will go out of town for work and will get her back. The tailor does not accept. Leyla leaves the house on the pretext of speaking on the phone and does not return. This little girl (Ecca) touches Güzide's past and makes sure she doesn't feel alone. One day Leyla comes back. On that day, Güzide feels her loneliness again.

A tourist exposed to heat in an all-inclusive hotel; a family father injured in his masculinity; and a packer who succumbs to a Sisyphean task while delivering a closet. Three short events merge to a novel about powerlessness during summer season at the Turkish Aegean Sea, where overheating, shame and class conditions belong to the burden of everyday life in a deeply divided society.

A clown has a children's program, but strange things are happening in this program.

The drama of a grieving mother and a young man who finds the family of the man he killed and confesses his sins.

Superman takes a commercial airliner to Istanbul in order to help out with criminal organisation baffling the local police.

Turkish reggae band Sattas live at the Akustikhane studios.

Aslan, a young insecure fisherman who lives on a Turkish island, finds a valuable lobster cave while diving. Knowing this treasure will bring him wealth and the prestige that he has never had in his society, he decides to keep it a secret from his cousin and best friend Yilmaz until he can properly harvest the lobsters by himself. By not sharing the secret, Yilmaz's growing suspicion conjures a series of paranoid obsessions that thrust him into a downward spiral.

Ragıp, a fine arts graduate, is deceived by the older painter Feridun with the promise of art. He gets involved in human trafficking in France and gets out of this business years later. 25 years later, he comes back to Turkey and aims to open a workshop and enter the market in order to practice his main profession as a painter. On the one hand, he started to give painting lessons. Since he lost all his human feelings during the period he was trafficking in human beings, he wants to recapture them through art. On the other hand, the schizophrenia he tries to escape from increases and makes his daily life unbearable. Ragıp keeps the trainees he teaches and the people he does not want in his life in the basement and starts to use them as painting material.

A Turkish remake of Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974).

The story of İskilipli Atıf Hoca, who was sentenced to death by the Independence Court for opposing the hat law after the proclamation of the Republic.

The film tells the story of a woman who has lost her loved ones.

Because of the constant rumbling of his stomach, Baran becomes estranged from his social circle and loses his job. When he returns to see the doctor, Havin takes a close interest in the sounds coming from his stomach, and the story begins to unfold in entirely unexpected directions.

Following his performances of *Kemikleşmiş Travma* and *Başka Biri Var*, Yunus Emre Gündüz presents *Varınca Ara*, a show he has performed over 200 times during the 2024–2025 season.

In the late 1970s, two idealistic physical education teachers at Ankara’s 50th Year High School founded a football team. This challenging journey evolved into a saga of success through friendship and passion. Years of perseverance were crowned with victory at the World High School Championship held in Peru in 1997. More than just a sports story, it is an inspiring tale of how faith and determination can push beyond all limits.

A short film that tells the poignant story of two childhood friends reunited in the heart of Istanbul, as they navigate their inner and societal struggles.

Someone born in the 1990s, who never actually lived in 1990s Istanbul, can only long for what they’ve seen in old videos. But how do you yearn for moments you never experienced... or why do you? In this nostalgic Istanbul we don’t remember, a digital passage unfolds from the European side to the Asian side, told only through the footage recorded on the cameras of those who once lived it.

A young man who has decided to end his life leaves behind a suicide note and gives himself one final day. What seems like an ordinary day gradually turns into a journey of discovery, revealing the profound meaning hidden in seemingly mundane moments. Unexpected conversations lead him to question the small yet powerful meanings of life. Slowly, the thought of suicide gives way to an existential inquiry and a search for traces of hope.

"Bi' Hayal İşte" is a cinematic short film created to introduce the group's debut album, manifestival. It features a medley of tracks from the album, showcasing their versatility in pop, R&B, and dance. The film is characterized by its nostalgia, glitzy visuals, and high-energy choreography, symbolizing their "manifested" success.

Writer Toprak Karasu receives a letter from her mother, whom she does not know, at a time when she is having an artistic crisis. In the letter, he writes that his mother left him a house as an inheritance. Toprak wants to sell the house as soon as possible and pay off his debts, but a sudden encounter completely turns all his life plans upside down.

The woman puts her lover's dead body in an aquarium and leaves his habits to rot. As his life gradually turns into the aquarium itself, his emotions begin to turn into zombies. The sound of order spreads from the television to the whole house. The woman normalizes death by becoming insensitive in this endless cycle that feeds on chaos.

They were taken from their homeland and forced to migrate! The geography was different, the religion was different, the nation was different, but their fate was the same.

A young woman loses her father unexpectedly. Even though she wants to dissociate herself from everything, her father's house needs to be packed. While she gets stuck between her father's belongings and memories, her relationship with the house starts to have its own ups and downs. The grieving process begins to take shape, influenced by the spirit of the house.

Gaspard Delanoe joined the art squatting movement and squatted an abandoned building in Paris with his friends. The building soon became home to an accumulation of 30 artists who created a Dadaist museum on the top floor by collecting various objects. The documentary showcases how this museum eventually became the new "Pont des Arts" (Lovers' Bridge), and how the artists' success went beyond their dreams from years before.

The fate of Turan Village, which a charming village located in an area of great natural beauty surrounded by mountains, canyons and rivers far away from the city, will change with the departure of unknown helicopters.

Four friends become unlikely bystanders to an incident of domestic violence. What will they do?

The cold, the fog and the haze pervades all around. We get the feeling of being besieged through an eternal winter and a never-ending war. Within this numb atmosphere in which all has frozen, one embarks on a journey to his/her past and future.

I'm Not One of You is trying to tell the overwhelming pressure of society on individuals through an elevator.

Turkish modern and contemporary art, by the West, is considered as Middle Eastern, but when it’s viewed from our own land, it is seen as Western. Our position as a bridge between the East and the West is not only geographical, but also cultural; and this bridge has been a home for many great civilizations throughout the history. This rich cultural heritage and diversity is the foundation of Turkish modern and contemporary art. Approaching the western world with a more realistic perspective has turned the gaze of Turkish artists to their own land, history, people and tradition. Additionally, the personal statement tendencies of new generation artists have developed their own expression and communication methods instead of emulating the current art developments in the West.

Hamza (17) is a religious boy who grew up in Qur'an courses under the pressure of religion since his childhood. One evening, piano sounds rise from the open window of a house in an alley that he entered unknowingly. Hamza admires the sound of the piano and tells his family that he wants to play the piano. Hamza, who has received a bad reaction from his family, has to make a choice between the piano that haunts his dreams and his family.

A short film about a bond between an old woman's past and future.

Seher lost her father at a young age and has been suffering from psychological problems ever since. After Erhan, whom she has been in love with since childhood, marries her cousin Nilay, Seher begins to feel intense jealousy towards Nilay. She constantly has nervous breakdowns and begins to withdraw from life and live a reclusive existence. Nilay and Erhan believe that Seher's condition is related to her illness. However, what they do not know is that Seher has had a spell cast on Nilay as a means of revenge.

Meryem is a young woman who has just started teaching. At first, everything is going well in Meryem's life, who is staying with her aunt Nurten, who has a disabled son and a daughter, along with her friend Güzide, who is also a teacher. However, after a while, she begins to witness strange occurrences in the house. Believing that what is happening is psychological, Maryam becomes even more panicked when she learns that Güzide is experiencing the same things. While Maryam tries to make sense of the events, her aunt Nurten is aware of the reason behind them. Knowing the secrets of the past, Nurten makes Maryam pay the price for the sins that have been committed.

Two fugitives looking for a place to hide become teachers by chance in a village in Araklı. The first task of the fake teachers is to reconcile two cousins living in the same village. To reconcile the cousins, who have been estranged for years due to a border dispute, the villagers and the new teachers devise a plan. The villagers, who plan to bring the two together by claiming there is a buried treasure on their shared land, find themselves facing unforeseen circumstances.

The film is an investigation of a hotel that no one can leave.

The frustrations of a woman who has given up her freedom for her husband.