Discoveries from Turkey World Cinema

Ertan is swindled by his best friend Iskender who takes all of the money that they both spent their whole life's saving. As if this was not bad enough Iskender has also left behind a large

The stories of eight couples who met through arranged marriages and are at different stages of their relationships.

Brave and his friends, Four Eyes and Freckle, end up spending a fortune online after a few careless clicks, which throws Brave’s father into complete chaos. Hoping to fix what happened, Brave brings home an old watch he bought as a present. Out of nowhere, the watch activates and pulls the trio into a strange and surreal world. There they find themselves working for Ruhi, a strict and demanding boss who makes them earn every cent. To get back home, the kids have to stay alert, stick together and understand what the watch has dragged them into.

The film tells the story of Yavuz Sultan Selim, who went on a campaign to the East after ascending the throne. Grand Vizier Ali Pasha wants Prince Ahmet to succeed Sultan Bayezid II. Prince Selim, who objects to this situation, sets off for Istanbul. With the support of the Janissaries and those in the palace, he ascends the throne. He has the other princes who covet the throne killed and turns his attention to Shah Ismail, who is causing trouble in the east of the country. Selim sends his men ahead to gather information and begins preparations for his campaign against Iran.

The story of a girl who committed suicide after receiving news of the death of her fiancé, a captain she was waiting to marry.

The film depicts a world in which Atatürk never became leader, the War of Independence never took place, and the Ottoman Republic continues to exist in a form adapted to the present day. The continuation of the Ottoman Republic instead of the Republic of Turkey, Ankara not being the capital, signs and license plates being in both Turkish and Arabic, and the sultan wearing a suit under his caftan are some of the tragicomic situations that make up the film's story.

A girl whose dream of acting comes before everything else. This dream requires sacrifice, effort and a heart that refuses to give up.

Istanbul is under enemy occupation. A group of nationalists from Istanbul try to support the liberation movement in Anatolia. Kemal, who had previously lived in England for a while, is assigned to gather intelligence. Kemal replaces a British officer who has just been appointed to Istanbul. While spying, he falls in love with Elizabeth, the daughter of a British general he meets.

A man struggles with his reaction to a horrible event he witnessed.

The film tells the story of a young man who contracts a terminal illness and becomes a commercial star. Zeki supports his family by driving a taxi. After being hit by a car, he is taken to the hospital for examination. His friend Metin learns that Zeki has contracted a terminal illness. The businessman who hit Zeki includes him in an advertising campaign. Believing that everything is for a good cause, Zeki agrees to portray a young man on the brink of death in the advertisements. Despite the advertising campaign gaining significant attention nationwide, things will not unfold as the banker had anticipated.

Derya and Hakan are best friends. Derya is the one who makes soup when Hakan is ill and Hakan is there whenever Derya needs him. They are so deeply involved in eachother’s lives that they even have the keys to the other’s apartment. They don’t have any secrets between each other. They both think that in today’s world, people do not feel the love that our grandparents and even parents do. They think that couples consume each other. And therefore, everyone they meet seem shallow to them.

We observe the daily routines of an elderly couple. Within the quiet flow of time, a longing for youth and irretrievable memories begin to surface. This piece reflects the sorrow hidden in the stillness of old age and the deep yearning for the past.

Mahmut and Osman travel from village to village, using the excuse of setting up a base station in the village to deceive the daughters of wealthy families with promises of marriage, then steal their gold and disappear. This time, however, their plans do not go as intended. Mahmut has heard that Sonay, the beautiful girl of the village, has a father who is very wealthy, and he has set his sights on her accordingly. However, thanks to Osman's carelessness, Sonay figures out what Mahmut is up to and plays a trick on him. She sends Mahmut running around after the gold, and eventually has him arrested.

The story of a Kurdish newspaper whose journalists are under the constant threat of being abducted and killed by the state security forces.

The story of Abbase Sultan, who ruled the country in the Abbasid Caliph.

In their youth, Eren and Reyhan, who grew up in Büyükada, had a great love. As soon as their families heard about this relationship, they separated them. Eren, the daughter of a wealthy family, returns to the island years later and finds Reyhan in an unexpected situation.

Story of a singer who is in love..

A child who is a war refugee, in a street entertainment that everyone would consider as regular, relives all of the destruction of war to himself and the ones around him.

Güney's marriage proposal to Derya drives Salih crazy and Derya is grounded. Sadri fires his gun to scare Güney who will realize he has no choice but to abduct Derya and marry her secretly. When Seda learns about all these and that Güney's father is the one who killed Derya's father, she immediately goes after Güney. Seda shows the video to Güney and Sadri shows it to Derya.

The film tells the story of two chemists who get into trouble because of an aphrodisiac perfume. Hasan, the king of nightclubs, enters the cosmetics industry by purchasing a failing company called Kozmetik Cemal. The factory surpasses its competitors thanks to a powerful ointment it produces. Orhan and Ali, who work at the Losyon Necip company, are on a quest to discover aphrodisiac scents. This would make it possible to compete with Kozmetik Cemal. However, neither Orhan nor Ali succeeds. Soon, what they were searching for comes to light: Orhan observes that a perfume he purchased during a journey has a seductive effect on women. However, as the perfume's reputation spreads, the mafia becomes involved.

In this film, we witness the drama that begins with the illness of the daughter of a retired father who has lost his wife and is caring for his four children with a great sense of responsibility, as well as his efforts to keep them together. The film also explores organ donation and the effects of young people's journey toward living their lives freely.

Living in an Ankara shantytown, Mehmet plays the clarinet at a nightclub to support his family. When their home is sold to a contractor by his brother-in-law, the gap between Mehmet’s dreams and reality significantly grows.

Ali and İlknur, who married with great love, are waiting for the fruit of their love. İlknur is eight months pregnant, and during this time, she has exhausted Ali with her endless strange requests. She wants to give birth to the child not in Istanbul, but in Ayvalık, Küçükköy, where Ali's grandmother lives, based on a dream she had. Here too, her shocking requests will not end, and Ali will find himself in very comical situations. However, the child's birth there will also provide a solution to a very important problem for the townspeople.

Movie adaptation of a very famous local podcast show of Meksika Açmazi. In this show, 3 famous Turkish comedian Mesut Süre, AnlatanAdam and Fazli Polat discuss wide range of daily issues we are facing and look at the situation in very different aspects.

When an incorruptible government pay clerk, who isn't taken seriously by anyone including his family, get robbed while carrying huge amount of work money, he becomes popular because people believe he faked the robbery and kept the money.

Tekin and retired traffic police deputy Ismail, to find a girl who lost their lives at the expense of any kind of danger afford. An ordinary story that started in pursuit of the missing girl case, reckoning, game turns into an adventure game in which the arrival. Who is to blame innocent who is confused. Our sleuth has a single error, then use their own methods.

Having been one of the most eminent scholars of the recent past, Bediuzzaman Said Nursi's Barla life.

The matriarch of a traditional Turkish family tries to stop her eldest daughter’s divorce, only to confront the shifting values within her own home.

Katia’s unexpected journey to Istanbul traps her in a chain of adventures enacted on the front of her disrupted childhood. She discovers her mother’s secrets and faces her own inner desires and dilemmas.

A victim of a forced marriage who has stabbed her husband finishes her sentence. When she is released from the prison she starts working at a factory under harsh conditions. Soon a poet falls for her, and gives her a new hope in love.

Born into a wealthy family, Özgür is unhappy with his life. Neither he sees support from his stingy father, nor from his rich father-in-law. Özgür's love from the past, Sale, expects financial support for the album to be released.

After being humiliated and kicked out from a music hall because they could not pay the bill, six ne'er-do-wells decide to kidnap the star performer Emel Sayın for revenge.

Murat, who loses the woman he loves on the wedding day, is almost dead. However, after a while, Serap becomes a great hope for him.

This time, the team we see with Ada is adapting to the conditions of an island while enjoying the sea and sun, setting sail for new adventures. While struggling to survive on the island where they will stay for a certain period of time, things start to get complicated with the addition of mysterious and even scary characters to the comical events they experience.

In the half-light of dawn, Halil falls down dead, murdered. His wife, Elmas, cries for justice, but, in fact, there will be no investigation. Life goes on for Elmas: during the day she works in the rice paddies with her little boy and, at night, she goes to catch frogs with the other villagers.

The film focuses on the relationship between Gırgır Ali and a singer he has kidnapped. Gırgır Ali is a man who has been involved in many petty crimes throughout his life. Since his release from prison, he has been trying to live without committing crimes. One day, his old friend Palandöken asks Ali to kidnap the famous singer Yasemin. At first, Ali is reluctant to do so, but he decides to kidnap her himself to prevent others from doing so. The two spend some time together in an isolated mansion. Although Yasemin initially hates Ali, she will eventually be influenced by his lifestyle.

A young and beautiful girl who happens to meet a photographer marries him despite her family's opposition. However, the girl has a tumor in her brain and only has a short time left to live.

Unlike all other films of Cuneyt Arkin, this film picture is taken by a highly skilled team with quite a lot of preparations. The scenario is a fairy tale which is pleasantly supported by some high quality visual effects (prepared in a visual lab in England). The scenes are all supported with high quality decorations of the old times of the tale. Cuneyt Arkin with his athletic capabilities enables the hero of this tale to be brought to life in his act. It is really unlucky for the film team to prepare such a good film after a series of junk films which directly reduced the interest to this high quality film.

Hurmuz is a beautiful woman, her husband Ömer is in prison and she's in love with him. She thinks that her husband is very loyal to her, but one day, when she goes to visit him, she learns that she has six other wives besides herself, and she can't get over this and wants to take revenge. Hızır Reis, Guard Hasan, Tulumbacı Hayri, Hallaç Rüstem and Berber Hasan. Hurmuz marries all of them in turn and kidnaps them all on their wedding night. But still, Hurmuz's heart is with the doctor.

It tells the story of eight women who came together at the "For Women" camp to turn a new page in their lives.

When a young woman learns that her fiancé is cheating on her, she leaves her school and goes to remote village as a teacher. In the village where she goes, her unprecedented behavior disturbs some villagers. Complained about by the villagers, she is forced to justify herself to the inspector assigned to investigate the allegations against her.

Selin's sister went to the house of her late grandmother for the weekend and stopped communicating. Young woman decides to go looking for her, despite the words of her boyfriend that this is not a good idea.

An aspiring actress is admitted to a prestigious conservatory but must pay her tuition by working as a performer for an unusual company.

The story of Cevher and his family and their daily struggles as seasonal workers in the cotton fields of Southern Turkey. Cevher depends on the family earnings from the fields to pay blood money for a murder one of his relatives committed. On the cotton fields, people also have to compete with machines, which are preferred to human workers. Eventually, the workers unite and go on strike.

Zuhtu, a nosy hawker who sells meatballs, one night finds a young girl escaping from her cruel relatives. He intends to help the girl but this costs him too much.

The film tells the tragic story of an Iraqi-Turkish girl, Cennet, who loses her entire family during a US-led operation against insurgents in her village in US-occupied Iraq. She makes a distressing journey through the border between Turkey and Iraq to find her brother who had been sent to Turkey for treatment.

Having spent ten years of his life in prisons, Güney escaped from Isparta Semi-Open Prison in 1981 and went to Paris, where he would spend the last years of his life. The recognition Güney received as a filmmaker in France brought him the Palme D'or at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival for his film "The Road." The documentary builds a bridge between France and Turkey through Yılmaz Güney, tracing his footsteps in Paris, the filming process of "The Wall," the lives he influenced through his political struggle and cinema, and the stories of those who were forced to leave their country after September 12th, who came to France as immigrants, his friends and colleagues, and the life stories of exiled people whose paths somehow intersected with his during this journey.

Sedat, a famous factory owner, falls in love with Sevim, a worker in his factory, and marries her. However, his family does not want this marriage. Meral, a rich woman in love with Sedat, wants revenge. Making a plan with Sedat's brother Nedim, Meral traps Sevim and makes it look like she is cheating on Sedat. Unable to accept this situation, Sevim shoots her husband's brother Nedim and goes to jail. Meanwhile, Sevim is pregnant and gives birth to her baby in prison. When she gets out after serving her sentence, she realizes that the outside is just as cruel as prison.

It tells the story of a man's quest for revenge after his love goes unrequited. Lale is unable to recover for a long time after losing her father. On top of that, the company's increasing workload overwhelms Lale. Determined to recover, Lale decides to go on vacation and takes her sister Zerrin with her to Uludağ. However, Lale does not find the peaceful vacation she had hoped for. Kadir, one of Uludağ's reckless ski instructors, has set his sights on Lale. Determined to achieve his goal, Kadir does not leave Lale alone for a moment. However, when his advances are rejected, Kadir is consumed by a desire for revenge to restore his wounded pride.

Necla is a crippled woman who cannot walk, but at night she puts on her red wig and becomes Selma, a dangerous woman who can walk. They fall in love with the painter in the neighboring house and after a while the painter wants to marry her, so Selma has to commit murder and blames the murder on her sister.

The film is about what happens at a camp where a series of murders take place. A commercial will be shot for the Okçu Clothing Factory. Factory owner Nedim Okçu chooses the actors who will appear in the film. Accordingly, famous singer Christine Haydar and theater actors Nurettin and Emel Sözer will star in the film. The production of the film has been entrusted to Metin Tunç. Before that, the crew will spend some time at Nedim Okçu's private island. However, this week-long camp turns into a complete nightmare.

Cevat cannot make ends meet with the allowance he receives from his father, Hamit Bey. So he earns money by committing fraud. He also has relationships with various women. He falls in love with one of these women, Gülay, and wants to marry her. However, Gülay owes Hamit Bey a large amount of money. Cevat will try to convince his father so that he can marry Gülay.

Cemal comes to Istanbul from a small Kurdish town after finishing high-school to pursue higher education. He feels isolated and out of place in the crowded city and soon meets a group Kurdish students who are against the repressive Turkish political system.

German musician Alexander Hacke explores Istanbul's rich music culture and attempts to create a portrait of Turkey through music genres. On this journey, he encounters a mosaic that covers countless genres from rock to arabesque, electronic to hip-hop.