Discoveries from Turkey World Cinema

Feridun, a reclusive man crippled by a fear of the outside world, lives a quiet, isolated life—until one day, he discovers a mysterious note inside his washing machine.

An essay on the possibilities and impossibilities of communication within the new age communication systems, the places we take shelter in the digital world, love ventures and all of these.

A farewell portrait created with the works of the artist Tardu Kuman, whom we lost in 2016, and the echoes of his sculptures. An experimental work by Reha Erdem.

Erdem questions the viewer’s perception of time and space by presenting a different section of a landscape captured in a fixed frame each time.

A scarred survivor struggles between choices that blur dream and reality, each step pulling him deeper into his own downfall.

Hediye, a Muslim woman grappling with the conflict between her sexual identity and her faith. As she navigates the transience of this love and its heartbreaks, Hediye is forced to reconsider her faith and her heart.

Turkish horror movie.

Two young people want to go on vacation with their sweethearts, but they can't afford it. Their friend, Süleyman, proposes a camping trip together. Süleyman will arrange the food and the car, but he only asks that they find a girlfriend.

After losing her mother, Minan sinks into loneliness. Desperate to cope, she believes having a child is the only way out—someone who could never leave her. But what if the watermelon breaks?

In the slums of Accra, six artists use creativity to rise above poverty, crime, and hardship. Shot in a verite style, this raw, emotional documentary follows their struggles and dreams, showing how art can bring hope and transform lives, even in the toughest conditions. A powerful story of resilience.

The massacre that took place in the Yörük Selim neighborhood of Kahramanmaraş in 1978, known as the "Maraş Events," resulted in the loss of many lives and caused many more people to lose their homes and possessions and to migrate. It is clear that women and children were the most affected by the war and the events. Third Exile is a documentary film project that aims to document the traumas experienced by women who lived through the Maraş Events. It follows the traces of women who are still living in Maraş and those who have migrated from Maraş.

At the edge of the peaceful, deep blue sea, Demir is fishing and between sleep and wakefulness, he is awakened by the ringing of a bell. With his clothes and camp chair worn out, Demir opens his eyes and realizes that he is holding a plastic bottle on the edge of a filthy sea, and that the hallucination he is hallucinating from hunger and lack of sleep belongs to the past. Aware that he will never fish from here again, Demir shuffles his feet in exhaustion, accepting his forced migration. Demir, the last to accept that the region where he lived, fed, loved, fed, fed, fed, sheltered has disappeared over time, puts down his fishing rod and walks away from the burnt forest, miserable, exhausted, towards the unknown.

A woman delves into her individuality and her body and the universality of the experience after having sex.

The man's night begins when he comes home to find another man in the toilet with a sack over his head.

Film crew of a seven friends throw a house party to watch their films. The only witness to the night's events is the director's recording digital camera. The entire film will consist of seven different recordings captured by this camera.

Having no climbing experience until now, Müge finds herself facing one of the toughest challenges of her life. After crossing paths with Belgian climbers Sander and Maarten, she joins them in creating a daring new climbing route on a towering cliff in a remote Mediterranean cove. As the team pushes through the unforgiving forces of nature, confronts their deepest fears, and tests the limits of their endurance, it is courage, friendship, and the unbreakable bonds of family that drive them toward the summit.

The strange tension and competition in a busy restaurant between the waiter and the second cook forces the young waiter to make a decision.

While walking along the shore, Öykü rediscovers the beauty of the world—something she had failed to notice amid the fast pace of city life. Yet this escape confronts her with her own restlessness and compels her to question the paradox of urban living: feeling alone among thousands of dreams. The sound of the waves, the texture of the sand, the wind brushing against her face—all of it touches a reality her soul had forgotten. The sea offers her a profound sense of calm and makes her reflect on the fleeting nature of life.

On a normal workday, a normal item leads the doctor into his own past.

Another entry in the Turkish horror franchise

Davut's test of love and loyalty, caught between the girl he loves and his one and only mother. University student Davut became a hafiz (memorizer of the Quran) in accordance with his father's final wish before his death. Davut is now a hafiz attending university. Sezin, on the other hand, is the daughter of a wealthy bureaucratic family. Despite being madly in love with his classmate Sezin, Davut cannot bring himself to confess his feelings to her. Because Sezin leads a life completely separate from his own.

Before reality takes hold, fleeting images flicker and fade—strange, scattered, and unexplained.

As sleep takes hold, a strange light flickers in the darkness

A man takes his seat for an interview. The questions begin, but something feels off. Who is he really talking to?

A poetic documentary about how Orthodoxy started in Izmir, how it continued and how the Orthodox in Izmir fulfill their worship.

Olympos archeological site is not an untouched getaway spot, a “hidden gem” anymore. Its ruins were unearthed and are being watched with surveillance cameras. However, the fact that utopias are long gone, and the mountain of the gods is now a museum, is not the end of the story.

Scenes from 1920s Izmir, Turkey, presumably taken before 1925.

Yunus can't escape the bad things that happened to him where ever he go.He causes a lot of bad things and he decides to go to a village but that that village makes him more scared with the jins and demons.

Godard says “Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.” What if twenty-five photographs were used to create a new "truth"?