Discoveries from Turkey World Cinema

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.

One man + Two women

A pitiless judge makes a wrong judgement and makes an innocent man sentenced to death. After, with the help of his conscience he changes his view of law and his whole life.

In this one-man show by Baran Aksan, poems by various poets are analyzed.

A lot of words have been said on women-men equality for many centuries. However there is a situation people don’t realize even though they know it very well.

When Emma, a high school student in England, escapes school with her girlfriend to attend a wedding, her destiny takes an unexpected turn as she falls in love with Mehmet, a guest at the wedding. When Mehmet, an undocumented immigrant, gets deported, Emma follows him to Turkey.

The chador brought to the tailor's shop will confront Arif with his own reality once more.

In October 2015 there were destructive clashes within and at the borders of Turkey; society was being dangerously polarized. In the midst of all this, numerous democratic institutions organized the Peace and Democracy Rally. 2 explosions took place at 10:04 where groups had gathered. 101 people died and more than 500 were injured. ISIS claimed responsibility for the deadliest attack in the history of Turkey. Ah is a close up to the moment of explosion and after through the feelings, thoughts, senses of 25 survivors who were in the core of that brutal violence action, wounded and lost their relatives.

Inn-i Cin Mishna focuses on what happens when a woman who has connections with jinn reconnects with them years later.

Mandarin and Mandalina misunderstand each other and end up disappointed. Mandalina wants to prove herself, so she and Mandarin set off on a journey to find the legendary Ice Mandala, a hidden oyster with secret powers that is hidden behind the icebergs. Captain Pengu, Misket, Zeze, Gugu, Pegu, and Mirmir, unable to find them, grow concerned for their friends. They too set off toward the North Pole to rescue them. Captain Penguin and his friends overcome stormy seas, icebergs, and dangerous coral reefs during their journey. This adventure also explores themes of friendship, courage, and perseverance.

A village, in the hearts of mountains, is totally empty. Still it is not. The village comes to life back with past voices. There is no people in the village. But their voices exist. There are no animals and no living things. But their voices exist. The past voices, together with scenes happenning right now, create memory about what happened there. It is the story of people, animals, nature and all the living things of a village before it is ruined.

All the cavalry on horseback. Then one of them fell off his horse. The army did not turn to look at the fallen soldier. The horsemen marched in all their splendor to the setting sun. That's when the soldier, left alone, remembered the past. A free adaptation of Nazim Hikmet Ran's poem "Weeping Willow".

Mikail lost his memory due to the trauma of a murder he was involved in the past. With a sens of guilt, he doesn't understand, he tries to find out who he is, who he might have killed, with the things he stole from the houses. Each item illuminates an event from his past. As Mikail traces his past in the dark houses of Istanbul he will have to come terms with his resentful gypsy childhood, his youth as a clarinetist who always wants to be approved, and his ambitious character who never head his wife's cries for help.

This documentary is about the submersion and the demolition of Hasankeyf––a historical district in Batman that has 12,000 years of legacy, because of Ilısu Dam, and about the lives of the people who lost their villages, homes, memories, observing them before the collection of water, during the collection of water causing the destruction, and after the filling of the reservoir.

The film focuses on the sometimes distant but generally warm relationship between a puppeteer who runs a puppet theater and lives in the same place, and his daughter. In the film, Karla is portrayed as a young girl contemplating what she wants to be in life and striving to understand the meaning of happiness, while the puppet master is depicted as a lonely father struggling to write his next theater play and simultaneously caring for his daughter. This story of feeling lost and Karla's efforts to explore her surroundings and life bring the father and daughter together in a story that explains the meaning of happiness. However, Karla will have to grasp the seriousness of life much sooner than she expected—and perhaps even sooner than she wanted.

In this 25-minute-long film, Avci returns to her hometown to make a movie, and as the title already discloses, this does not go with ease.

This fun and daring teen comedy depicts the adventures of two close friends who chase after girls after meeting Havva.

The life story of 9 famous names of Turkish cinema and theater.

A district in eastern Turkey. A newly built one-story, two-bedroom house. The house has a huge garden. A family of five who migrated from the village to the city. While Leyla (38) is busy with the work in her new house, Hüseyin (40) usually works in the west of the country and tries to earn a living for his family. One day the phone rings, it is Hüseyin who is on the phone. While Leyla is busy working at home and the children are busy with their dreams and games, Hüseyin arrives. But when expectations are not met and some lies imposed by poverty prevail in the house.

In a train station stripped of all concerns of time and place, a man has taken up something not at all ordinary: Writing and selling stories. The storyteller is delighted to write and his readers are delighted to live those magical moments; but one day, out of the blue, a blind woman appears in all her beauty and in this mysterious world, she asks the storyteller to write and read a story for her. Blind people are forbidden to receive stories, since they cannot read what is written. The storyteller must refuse this unacceptable request, but he is intrigued by this beautiful woman, and this intrigue has no chance of living on the page!.

A dining table, four people and one package. As they look for answers to their questions with the closed box in front of them, their burdens begin to get heavier.

Story of a poor fishmonger family consisting of a mother, a handmaid, and two sons. One of the sons (Talat) is involved in tobacco smuggling as a result of the incitement of his fishmonger friends in order to overcome the poverty and the other son becomes a watchman to struggle against smugglers; one day two sons face off against each other. A part-talkie film.

Ali Tarantula, who has passed his middle age, is half-educated, half-crazy, has a strange authority, who is trying to overcome the problem that the city will swallow him up by taking on a crazy character. This, Ali Tarantula, one day he gets obsessed with the offside rule in football...

A short film about the responsibility of fiction.

Murat, who has a happy relationship with his girlfriend Alev, will be dragged into a nightmare after meeting a woman named Ceren. Ceren, who is in love with Murat but cannot find reciprocation for her love, seeks revenge on the man she loves by casting a spell on him.

Mete receives a phone call from the future informing him that he will be killed, and leaves his home. The caller from the future directs Mete to a woman named Burcu. Mete overcomes various obstacles to meet Burcu. Burcu agrees to help him. Just when Mete thinks he has been saved, he falls into a paradox where every outcome Burcu has planned will result in Mete's death.

The film depicts the story of an ex-con, who struggles to hold on the life after his release from prison.

A young man with a severe fear of death is forced to travel to Rize for a funeral. Accompanied by his friends on an absurd road trip, he finds himself confronting a world where life and death can coexist side by side in the same garden.