Discoveries from Turkey World Cinema

A silent documentary film depicting Jews and Jewish communities in Ottoman Palestine/Eretz Israel.

Seda, who was exposed to social discrimination as a female comedian, had problems in her private life and social life. She decides to prepare a stand-up show based on what she experiences around her.

A study of the human body's marks and scars, where every unique trace becomes a point of connection, reflecting the shadows of the world around us.

“Mama” is a drama that explores caregiving, family ties, and guilt. The story follows Esin, who has put her own life on hold to care for her mother Sema, an Alzheimer’s patient. Years of invisible caregiving have left Esin exhausted and isolated, torn between her love for her mother and her yearning for freedom—pushing her toward an irreversible decision.

The story of what happened to Keloğlan as he was on his way to the marriage registry office with a girl he didn’t want to marry...

An investigation into one of Turkey's most shocking cases -- and how one man was able to enact total control over a tight-knit family.

AKG's world-famous short film.

As Edirne's city dump is cleared to make way for a new prison, the film observes the final days of the dogs who call it home.

Efe’s day begins, Efe’s day ends. While others lose something, everything carries on for him.

This puppet play satirizes national narratives through Kasperle theatre and Karagöz shadow-play conventions. Structured around three contracts; Faust and the devil, the artist and the state, and erotic power-play; it makes consent, refusal, and accountability visible as puppets defy authority and demand justice.

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.

Working from the enforced absence of filmmaker-producer Çigdem Mater--sentenced to 18 years in prison in a trial tied to the 2013 Gezi Park protests for a documentary she never shot--Dadak and Kahraman braid dreams, screen captures, and AI images into a rehearsal for release, summoning Mater as a still-imagined free artist against the state's attempt to erase her.

An expanding wound from beyond. A scientist questioning reality itself. A woman becoming the site of something older than time.

The teacher asks the students to introduce themselves in writing. Just how much of what Melodi, Ateş, and Mert wrote comes from their subconscious?

A character embarks on a dark, introspective journey of transformation. The story unfolds through subconscious distortions and lingering traces of the past.

“When someone in the family becomes chronically ill, the whole family falls ill,” explains Celal Karaaslan. After decades of heavy physical labor, he is waiting for his invalidity pension. For him and his son Tolga, the waiting period becomes a search for a possible future—one that confronts both with existential questions.

In this geography, being defeated in a political election is not an ordinary defeat; in local terms, it is ‘collapsed. As the 31 March 2024 local elections are approaching, the race for the headman has heated up in Pirsultanlı Village. The rivalry of the candidates competing for headman is not just a political race; it turns into a power struggle that deeply affects the people of the village, from kinship ties to friendships. The most important question in the village is “who will collapse and who will be collapse.” The film deals with the cultural codes of local politics, belonging and power relations in an ‘observant’ manner through the election of a village headman.

A young cinema student investigates the suicide of his friend’s aunt. As he watches the footage she filmed in Gülhane Park after losing her husband and son, and reads through her diary, he begins to uncover a hidden relationship from her past.

A documentary about the last Turkish shadow players and the German orientalist Hellmut Ritter

Elif, an international student who has just moved to France, is struggling with the isolation that it brings. With only voice messages from friends back home to keep her company, we witness her life from the confines of her room.