Discoveries from Turkey World Cinema

Rana is a young woman who performs in musical theater plays. On the day she becomes romantically involved with Eren, whom she has been seeing for some time, she encounters some supernatural occurrences upon returning home. Terrified by what she sees, she remains in the bathroom until her roommate Kübra arrives home. In the following days, she continues her professional life on stage while also continuing to meet with her boyfriend Eren. Although those around her try to convince her that she is hallucinating, her friends eventually realize the truth. Rana chooses to fight the supernatural being she has seen, as it is harming both her and those around her. Even risking her life, Rana confronts the entity that has possessed her.

The journey of a flying fish marks the beginning of the transition to a new era.

Can is in his early twenties, and adulthood doesn’t seem to agree with him. He is having a hard time keeping up with all the rumbling and mumbling. His family is disconnected, a job interview goes badly, and a friend serves him drugged macaroni. Lost, lonely and confused, he seeks contact from an imaginary girlfriend.

Inspired by Wendy Lichtman's story, Ustaoğlu's second short film portrays a little girl's discovery of death.

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The film depicts the struggle between two men who want to take revenge on each other. Çakal is tried for arms and drug trafficking. However, there is no evidence against him. Murat and three of his friends, who know about Çakal's activities, testify against him. Thus, Çakal is found guilty and sentenced to seven years in prison. Despite this, while in prison, he forms a new organization. With this new structure, he spreads across the entire country. He begins to harm the families of Murat and his friends who testified against him. After being released from prison, Çakal and Murat will attempt to take revenge on each other.

Umut Güneri is a businessman. He and his Russian business partner Sergey Krilenkov have focused on the alcohol trade in the past. Umut Güneri claims that approximately 25,000 people in Turkey lost their lives due to Sergey Krilenkov smuggling adulterated alcohol into the Turkish market. For this reason, the partnership between Umut Güneri and Sergey Krilenkov was unilaterally terminated by Umut Güneri. Sergey Krilenkov, having lost his largest commercial partnership, will resort to significant underhanded tactics in an attempt to regain it.

Europe can't exist closed in itself any more. In a personal quest for meaning, longing for emotions, talented musician and singer Petra Nachtmanova travels on the roads from Berlin all the way to Iran asking always one question: 'Can you teach me a song I should bring back to the west?'. On her back, a mysterious legendary instrument opening doors and hearts along the way: the Saz.

Sober and effective début in beautiful black-and-white by a very young maker about a man who works as a cleaner and administrator in the city hospital. We follow him for a day in his routine.

A 35-year-old shepherd wandered over the border from the Turkish district of Kars into Armenia to retrieve his animal. In this haunting, desolate landscape, the borders are invisible, but fatal.

Yasemin and Mustafa, who belong to different religions, are a happy couple who live without worrying about their religious differences. Their quiet life in Izmir is turned upside down one night when Yasemin has a terrible nightmare. The paranormal events that follow immediately after the nightmare begin to affect Yasemin's psychology. However, Mustafa takes his wife's experiences lightly. Yasemin goes to the church as a last resort and asks the priest for help, but she cannot find a solution. Finally, they turn to a teacher named Mansur Hoca, who tells Yasemin that she is being haunted by a very dangerous tribe of jinn.

Istanbul 2016. As the city rumbles with the noise of explosions and the voices of ghosts from the war become deafening, a man tries to get to sleep.

A film from Ali Kazma's Resistance series, which focuses on the human body as the central figure in artistic, scientific and intellectual creativity and invention.

Stories straight from the horse's mouth about their own lives and perspective on daily life in Adana, sincity of Turkey.

Following the military intervention of 1980 the number of people who died during interrogation or in prison increased. As a result of the unsanitary conditions and torture in prisons, 299 people died while incarcerated.

It is 1915 in an Armenian village in Anatolia. Bedo and Maryam return from their secret dovecote only to find an empty house and a ghost village. The children embark on a journey to search for their mother, along with their bird 'Bacik.'

Major Kemal joins the imperial forces, presenting himself as a supporter of Çerkez Ethem and the sultan. His goal is to discover the identity of the agent who has infiltrated the National Struggle. Kemal rises to the rank of major thanks to his military successes during his time as a spy. However, his brothers, Captain Nazmi and Lieutenant Mustafa, who are unaware of this situation, become hostile towards him. Meanwhile, İsmail Hakkı Bey, Kemal's only source of contact, is killed. Kemal continues his communication through his daughter Perihan. On the other hand, he falls in love with Nilüfer, his brother Nazmi's girlfriend. The love between the two becomes complicated when it merges with their espionage relationship.

Seikilos, who lived in prehistoric times, decides to commit suicide and, before doing so, calls in craftsmen from Egypt to mummify himself and his beloved Euterpe, whom he has killed. Thousands of years later, a shepherd living in the Aegean region accidentally opens the tomb, and Seikilos unexpectedly comes back to life. When he opens his eyes and cannot find his eternal love in the tomb, Seikilos begins to search for her. During this time, his path crosses with Mustafa and Hatice, and an interesting adventure begins.

The word Gullüm stands for small fun talk in Lubunca (Turkish queer language). The short-document takes its place in Istanbul’s underground queer scene. It follows the lead Florence K. Delight ,a young drag artist who performs in the queer-friendly stage called ‘Dudakların Cengi’. The film asks questions about this unique stage and what meaning or importance it possess for Turkey’s LGBTQ+ community in a friendly attitude. With a vibrant ambience and local artists, the subjects of this stage welcomes the viewers into their night from getting ready for the show and until the end.

Müfit Can Saçıntı is bringing his one-man show, which he has been performing on theater stages for five years, to the big screen.

Directed by Suha Arın in 1979, Tahtacı Fatma is one of the earliest documentaries on the ethnic Tahtacı community. In an interview conducted in 1999, Suha Arın mentions that he wished to make a follow-up film that includes updated information about their conditions as he had not been in touch since several years. However, Arın passed away in 2004 without realizing his wish. Why was Arın curious again about a community whom he already worked with twenty years earlier? The 40 Years After Fatma observes the changes which Tahtacıs went through, with the company of documentarists who worked with Suha Arın back in 1979, at their native land.

At this endless night when the sun does not come up, and the darkness prevailed, Woman and Man search for a solution in leaving their normal life, property, and civilization as we know it, and going to nature. They depart and leave their friends after a dinner which has less excitement than before to test their hope about social revival.

The story of a child who pursues or promotes love.

Ziko is a young obsessed sleepwalker who has just been banished from his village for a serious crime. When this decision is announced to the neighboring villages, to reach the city, in the middle of winter he has to cross villages which await him with hatred, ignoring all this the deaf-mute LALO must also cross the same villages the same day.

Condemned to silence on an isolated farm under her husband's control, a woman sees the cage that imprisons her own soul reflected in the pens of the animals. An unexpected act of cruelty from her husband awakens a suppressed darkness within her, and she is no longer alone. The dinner table, set in the darkness of night, becomes the stage for a man's crumbling power and the silent alliance of two women.

On a quiet Sunday morning aboard the Marmaray, the train traveler drifts into reflection, guided by poems written across different eras. Memories of pleasure and farewell intertwine as literature gives shape to emotions that remain unchanged through time. A short film about solitude and continuity.