Discoveries from Turkey World Cinema

Beşir, a cemetery keeper and a collector. Every dead person who comes to the cemetery becomes a part of his collection.

The existence pains of a young woman who has to spend her time at home during the epidemic… An indefinite silence… An eternal time devoted to thinking… A black and white requiem...

A love and adventure story between an undercover detective and a womanizer.

A conflict of ideas among students with political views, centered on the love between Mine, who wants to be a singer, and Abdullah, who does not want her to be a singer.

Hülya, a singer, and Erol, the son of a wealthy family, are in love. However, Erol's father does not approve of this relationship. With the help of two men he hired, he forces Hülya to give up her career and leave Erol. As a result, Hülya attempts suicide. At the last moment, a man known as "Doctor" saves her. Hülya will start a new life with Doctor.

Tale of Kurdish Yazidi, a small, non- Islamic religious community with close ties to nature.

The story begins in a mental hospital and continues with Tahsin and Rıfat lying to the doctor that they are well and leaving the hospital. As soon as they leave the hospital, the two go to Rıfat's mother's house to surprise her. However, when they arrive home, they learn that the neighborhood is undergoing urban renewal and that, like everyone else, their mother has sold her house.

Surgeon Ferit is waiting for the results of his medical tests after a recent illness. Even if the results come back clear, he is certain that something in his body is not right. An invisible “something,” lurking deep within, is slowly taking over him from the inside. As the uncertainties grow, so does Ferit’s restlessness. When this illness, which envelops his body, begins to gnaw at his mind as well, he decides to take matters into his own hands and treat the undiagnosed disease himself.

A woman recounts the events that led her 12 year old son to commit the most ultimate act of evil. Inspired by true events.

"The Ballad of the Wood" reveals the traditional architecture of the houses of the Western Black Sea region for centuries has been passed down from father to son, from master to apprentice through secrets and a technique known as "canti". Some of the houses shown have been standing for the last 100 to 150 years. The film honors the great craftsman of the past who utilized the "dizeme" technique through an emphasis on structures that are 300 years old. These examples are some of the most unique to be found in the Western Black Sea region. This craft has been passed down from generation to generation. Now only a few old and tired practitioners are left and they reveal to the camera their anti-earthquake construction techniques. The average age of the craftsmen is 80 years old.

In 1976, Suha Arin was a tutor at the faculty of Social Sciences of Ankara University at the Press and Publishing Department (today's Communication Faculty). Like many of his films, the documentary "Safranbolu: Reflections of Time" was filmed with the help of a group of enthusiastic students. Safranbolu presents some of the few surviving examples of striking traditional Turkish architecture. The beauty of houses as well as the negative impacts of the passage of time are reflected in the documentary "Safranbolu: Reflections of Time" one of the aims of the film was to raise public awareness of the need for protection for culture and nature.

Highly destructive chili pepper comedy, 101 servings.

How does it feel when we realize we have no more in common with the people who made us who we are? Önder goes to visit Mehmet, the cousin he has always looked up to and loved like a brother, but not seen for some time. Although the evening begins brightly, Önder realizes by the end that the brother-like bond between them is a thing of the past.

Named after ancient Roman poet Juvenal's famous phrase "Breads and Circuses", Panem Et Circenses focuses on the collective suffering of being limited by conceptual boundaries, which suppress a being's uniqueness, creativity, and sought self fulfillment. Inside a metaphorical universe, which is inspired by an aquarium, original characters depict their individual journeys in life, accompanied with a goldfish's tale of seeking a way out his habitat that is togged up with distractive ornaments. As each character tries to realize themselves in fashion, choreography, emotions and identity, the goldfish simultaneously continues his journey as an element that reflects their collective dreams, hardships, joys and disappointments.

Cafer, Ahmet, Baki, and Doğan are four friends who live in the town of Anıtkaya in Afyon. During the day, these young men are busy with their own work, but at night, they search for treasure in the hope of becoming rich. Ali, a young businessman from Afyon, is involved in hunting. Ali, who came to Afyon from Paris for hunting, finds himself in a situation where he must fight for his life. Meanwhile, unexpected events unfold in Anıtkaya. Could these new developments bring hope to the four friends?

The events depicted in the film are based on a true story that took place in Bursa in 2003. The story and names have been partially altered for the film. The film was shot using actual camera footage taken from the person's home and garden.

Leyla and Tarik are trying to attain each other, but misfortune follows them.

A young woman struggles to adjust to her recent transformation

Turgut quickly squanders the inheritance he received from his father, and his house is seized. He needs a large sum of money to lift the seizure. At this point, businessman Hayrullah offers Turgut a job. Hayrullah has recently been receiving threatening letters saying that his daughter will be killed. He asks Turgut to find the person who wrote the letters and protect his daughter Sumru. While trying to protect Sumru, Turgut will fall in love with her.

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Sibel, an art student, is exhausted from studying so hard to pass her class; she is drawing alone in the studio late at night. She realizes that her drawings, based on real-life references, are strange and—for some reason she cannot fathom—suddenly begin to alter reality. Fascinated and excited, Sibel thoughtlessly causes changes around her in an attempt to test the limits of this anomaly. However, in the process, she accidentally locks herself in the room. What she doesn’t realize is that there are other things in the room she wasn’t expecting.

A raw fragment of existence that refuses to align with the self. A descent into the undigested, the expelled, and the silence that follows.

It is a farewell story that focuses on the absolute loneliness Napoleon Bonaparte experienced during the final days of his life after being exiled to the island of Saint Helena, and his deep longing for his homeland.

Generations: A Music Documentary is a Turkish documentary that showcases the story and evolution of rock music in Turkey throughout generations and aims to show a better understanding of what is to come in the near future.

An old woman has a dream shortly after the earthquake disaster in which thousands of people died.

On a moonlit night, a woman unjustly condemned returns as a dark tale of vengeance, altering the fate of a quiet village.

“The story I told you is the story of ourselves.”

The video “Road to Tate Modern” tells the story of the artists’ efforts to reach that art museum in London. Laden with ironic references to Miguel de Cervantes’s classic novel “Don Quixote” (1605/15), it shows one of the characters riding a horse and the other a donkey as they set out from the mountains of Diyarbakır in pursuit of their “impossible dream”.

Dengbêjên Me is a empathetic documentary about the last living representatives of the Kurdish oral storytelling tradition—the Dengbêjs. The film is dedicated to their lives, their memories, their pain, and their resistance. Their songs and personal stories create a cinematic archive of a cultural heritage that dates back thousands of years. Between voice, music, and silence, a deeply emotional journey unfolds, becoming a farewell, a testimony, and an act of cultural survival.

A silent film about nothing.