Discoveries from Turkey World Cinema

While he was just an ordinary imam, his sister was raped and murdered by bullies. Everything was destroyed, but later he became a skilled swordsman and made his enemies bleed.

A love story between the children of two feuding families.

Ferdi's father Yakup is cheating on his wife with Şükran, who lives in the city. Şükran, who has a child with Yakup, wants him to divorce his wife Elvan. Yakup then divorces Elvan. Ferdi wants to stay with his mother. Yakup, separated from his wife and child, returns to Şükran's side, tormented by guilt, but dies in a traffic accident. Şükran had already arranged everything before Yakup's death and seized all of his wealth. However, Şükran's cruelty toward Ferdi and his mother does not end there.

Elena, who lost her husband to cancer after the Chernobyl disaster, one of the greatest catastrophes in recent history, finds a solution in coming to Turkey for treatment when she learns that her son is also suffering from the same disease. While Elena is undergoing treatment in Trabzon, she meets Şenol, a footballer who dreams of playing for Trabzonspor. Şenol falls in love with her at first sight without a second thought... On the other hand, Trabzonspor, which was heading for the championship in the 1995-1996 football league, loses the championship in the final match, and the world of their cheerleader Ahmet collapses... On the other hand, there is Kazım Koyuncu, who has won the hearts of millions with his voice and personality. As a victim of Chernobyl who lost his life to cancer, Koyuncu is like the voice of the local people...

Bayram, who lives with his mother, father, and grandmother, dreams of meeting Sinem, whom he fell head over heels in love with at his friend's wedding. Sinem, a young and successful businesswoman, is the advertising and marketing director at Koma Kola, one of the country's largest cola companies. Bayram believes that the only way to reach Sinem is to create his own cola brand. His father, Cemal, wants Bayram to take over the family-owned sherbet shop. Bayram refuses his father's request and, with the help of his friends Hamdullah, Talha, and Mehmet Bakkal, whom he considers his older brother, sets out to win the heart of the girl he loves.

Cumali, a native of Adana, comes to Istanbul for work. Cumali, who is in love with a singer named Neslihan, brings her to Adana to introduce her to his family. However, Neslihan had a relationship with Cumali's brother Tahsin in the past and is seeking revenge. The family, already struggling due to Tahsin's gambling debts, suffers a heavy blow when confronted with this reality.

A poor grocery owner becomes a popular goalkeeper.

A naive apolitical young man, who is interrupted by a fundamental religious environment, turns bitter.

It's easy to say... After 23 years of single-party rule, Turkey decided to try democracy once again in 1946. In every attempt up to that time, the regime had been turned upside down and given up in a short time. Now a new one was coming. Would he be able to reach the multi-party regime that has been pursued since Atatürk this time? The calendar of democracy began to run on the morning of Monday, January 7, 1946. That day was a turning point in Turkish political history. The Republic of Turkey woke up with a single party in the morning, it was now multi-party...

The story of two people who, despite not knowing each other, fight for the same cause and whose paths cross thanks to the unifying power of music.

Hayri Bey accuse an innocent young man for a murder committed by his son Metin. Hülya, the sister of the accused, is joined by Orhan in a fight for justice against the powerful Hayri Bey.

Hacer, who is consumed with love for her grandchildren, has two daughters. Her eldest daughter, Hayat, has divorced and moved in with her. Her younger daughter, Hediye, is married but is about to decide to divorce.

Uğur and Barış are childhood friends. They run a DVD store opened by Barış's uncle Engin, who is a motorcycle manufacturer. Uğur is in love with Leyla, Barış's cousin and Engin's sister. Leyla is not indifferent to Uğur either; they occasionally meet in secret without her brother's knowledge. Leyla's greatest wish is to escape her brother's control and start a new life with Uğur. However, Uğur is not much help to Leyla in this endeavor. How can he face Engin and ask for Leyla's hand in marriage? He hasn't even managed to get his own life in order. The solution comes from Barış. They will shoot a film starring Uğur and Leyla. However, when they watch what they have filmed, they realize that this task is not as easy as they thought. While seeking help, they come across a director.

Erkan and Murat want to give their close friend İbo’s younger brother Burak a little fun, a little joy, a little night club time before seeing him off to the military service the next morning. As night falls on the city, the four friends cram into a brand new modified, illuminated, turbocharged Falcon model car and set off on an adventure. But as the hours pass, the problems between them gradually surface and the levels of aggression, toxicity and arguments increase. Like most young men from the suburbs, the anger, complex, trauma and shame they keep inside will gradually bubble up, spread around, and to vent out, they will turn to each other, it will be obvious with the bitter truth that the turbo engine is not the only thing ready to explode.

Merve is a young woman struggling to overcome the various difficulties she faces in the prime of her life. Unable to achieve success in any of the jobs she takes on, Merve becomes a laughingstock among the wealthy. Determined to put an end to this situation and lead a respectable life, she turns to a marriage of convenience as a solution. However, when she falls in love with someone else, things become complicated. Unwilling to choose between love and money, Merve finds herself utterly helpless due to the marriage contract she signed. Now, there is only one solution left for her: to kill her husband.

Captured and subjected to severe torture, Çal Hasan manages to escape from the castle where he is imprisoned after a great struggle. After receiving the sultan's orders and will, Çal Hasan sets out to complete his unfinished mission, find Genç Osman, who is on the border, and raise the Turkish flag in Estergon without becoming a sacrifice.

Despite being old and neglected, Emine, the elderly maid of an expensive antique mansion, is mistaken for the owner of the mansion and murdered. The suspects are the two families who are the heirs. The murderer will be found through a letter sent to these two families.

Mahmut and Abidin work as comedians at a night club, Mahmut is honest yet Abidin is sly. A deaf and mute girl named Kumru is brought to work in the night club.

The film tells the story of a young girl who secretly becomes an actress behind her brother's back. Mehmet runs a coffee house in one of Istanbul's suburbs. Mehmet, who is engaged to Ayşe, the daughter of grocer Hatice, cannot manage to come up with the required dowry. Mehmet's mother, Fatma, works as a seamstress at a theater. Mehmet's sister, Zeynep, decides to help her brother collect the dowry. To do so, she starts working at the theater with her mother. At that time, a big musical is being performed at the theater. Shortly before the musical, starring Erol and Meral, is set to premiere, Meral announces that she is leaving the show. Erol and the theater owners listen to Zeynep's voice and like it. As a result, they decide to cast Zeynep in the lead role. However, this situation must be kept secret from Mehmet.

When Cevahir crosses paths with his old flame Zeynep, she seeks his help in untangling an arranged marriage that spurs even more predicaments.

The story follows Zaza Seyhmus, whose life is upended when his father is murdered. Driven by the need for revenge, he ventures into Istanbul’s murky underbelly, where danger lurks at every turn and allegiances shift unpredictably. His relentless pursuit of retribution cuts through a city riddled with corruption and hardship, marking each step as both a struggle and a testament to survival.

Everything is fine for Aylin, who has just given birth. Her husband and mother are with her, she has a helper at home and her friends come to visit. However, Aylin has difficulty adapting to the role of motherhood, she is reluctant to even hold her baby or feed him. Her gaze is always fixed on the distance, she has a pensive mood.

Osman, who lives a poor life with his wife, children, and mother-in-law, earns his living as a porter. His debts to the local shopkeepers and his landlord have piled up like a mountain. To make matters worse, he is constantly belittled by his wife Leman and mother-in-law! One day, the neighborhood ticket seller Şakir forces him to buy a lottery ticket. Osman hides the ticket somewhere but forgets where he put it. When Osman learns that the jackpot has been won by one of the tickets sold by Şakir, he mistakenly believes it is his and is overcome with joy.

During the year of the repressive military regime, a Turkish writer gets disillusioned by the loss of a dear friend and retires to his hometown on a remote island where he feels safe from the political turmoil. There he escapes to the world of memories, having imaginary conversations with his dead friend. However, the news of a new murder alerts him to the dangers lying ahead. Shot in Turkey following the years of military regime, Av Zamani carries autobiographical elements as the director Erden Kiral also had to flee the repressive regime of his country to be an exile in Germany. The weakness of the film is that the director is not able to take enough distance from the events to give the story a more universal appeal. Av Zamani was screened at the Montreal World Film Festival 1988.

The semi-melodramatic story of three poor friends who met in prison where have been sent to on various offenses. These three friends do not want to get out when they are released. What are Abuzer, Haci and Arap going to do when they will be out? They have no one, no jobs... Apart from Haci and Arap, everything will be the same for Abuzer, who doesn't know where to go. He will still be alone, starving on the streets of the big city.

An unprecedented cloud has appeared in the sky. As a result, numbers begin to disappear one by one. İlhan, seeking revenge for the trauma he experienced in his childhood, is eliminating the numbers with the help of Biliş, whom he has brought along. As the numbers disappear, everything begins to fall apart, and daily life comes to a standstill. Pırıl and her friends embark on a thrilling adventure to solve the problem. In doing so, they discover that the root of the major issues lies in basic arithmetic and use mathematics once again to save the world from chaos.

After emigrating to Australia, a traditional Turkish man collides with his idealist wife as the ghosts of his dead parents set him free from an isolated, defeated existence.

Based on a real life story of sufi dervish Somuncu Baba, who lived in Aksaray in Turkey.

Through Martian horizons, she gazes upon the world she’s only known through tales of scrap screens. Colors altered by fading memories, and shapes molded by imagination... Her perception of Earth, a symphony played by fragmented notes, an artwork painted by distant echoes. In the embrace of Mars, she carries the fractured essence of a heritage lost in space. Generations adrift in the solitude of the Martian plains, lives in a kaleidoscope of the world.

Celal Tan is a well-respected constitutional law professor who lives in a provincial city has two children from his first marriage. Many years after the death of his first wife, he married a woman much younger than him, a university student, whose life he has saved in some way. In the third year of their marriage, the extremely tragic story of Celal Tan and his family begins after a big crisis happened in front of the whole family. While trying to hide the secret, the family falls into absurd and tragicomic positions. Regardless of all happenings, Celal Tan tries to keep the family together.

The story of a group of people fleeing Bulgarian oppression and trying to return to Turkey.

Story of the famous Malkocoglu family who served Ottoman Empire in various military ranks.

A young man with an organized life and a family suddenly feels that he is all alone in the crowds that surround him. This unhappiness causes him to withdraw from home and leave frequently, and he embarks on an endless search. The only thing he hopes for is a new love that will add color and richness to his life.

Turkan is tormented by thoughts of her turbulent family past that has been blighted by family rivalries and intrigues.

Police commissar Murat reaps justice upon the criminal underworld that poisoned his son.

The German-Turkish search for identity by 9-year old Ümit.

Telling the story of how time transforms a person into two different women, Hayal Kuşu stands out as a project that brings together two souls of the same woman, past and future.

In the Balkan region, where lawlessness prevailed during the war, a man receives a threatening death letter from the gang he used to be a member of. Thereupon, he plans to escape to America with his pregnant wife. On the last night, after being threatened by the gang, the man leaves the house to persuade the gang members, but does not come back. Instead, an hour later, gang members enter the house. The gang leader starts a game in which he tells the woman that if she fulfills his wishes, she can see her husband again as a reward.

Osman kidnaps Elif with a focus on his goal, but things will not go as expected. A naive and sensitive bond will be formed between this extremely cute and innocent girl and Osman.

Ozkan has a special flower which is from Barcelona. He realize that the flower is ready for smoke. He organizes his friends to party that they play football on console. Friends come together but a crow grabs the flower from the pot and run away. He is so ambitious to make himself high and decide to go for a new one. But on the road to Edirne, this 4 guys will create some trouble with Reco, the mafia leader around the region. A thrilling action and comedy starts after they come face to face with him, while he is looking for them also.

Emre's (8) parents have temporarily left him at his grandmother and grandfather's summer house. Emre tries to pass the time by playing with his toys or walking on the beach with his friend Çiçek. His parents return to pick him up, and this return brings with it a reality that Emre will encounter for the first time in his life.

The film focuses on the changing relationships between Münir, his wife Perihan, and their friend Kenan as a result of a misunderstanding. Münir is a passionate musician and composer. He does not show his compositions to anyone other than his wife Perihan and his close friend Kenan. Kenan and Perihan, who find Münir's compositions very successful, devise a plan. They submit the compositions to a composition competition without Münir's knowledge. However, when Münir learns of their secret meetings, he misinterprets the relationship. As a result, his relationship with Perihan and Kenan deteriorates. When Münir's composition wins the competition, everything comes to light. However, undoing what has happened during this process will not be easy for anyone.

The film follows the lives of those who immigrate to the city, leaving their families behind. Ahmet and his friends came to the city with great expectations, but soon confront the difficulties of adjusting to life there. After days of job hunting, they finally find employment in the harbor.

The film deals with the migration from the village to the city with a realistic narrative. The immigration phenomenon described in workers' hands in a factory refers to both the modernization process in the period and the unionization. Hacer emigrates to Istanbul with his father, two children and his wife. Her husband left her and she was a helpless. Hacer was influenced by the union of the working factory, who owns the crippled friends. Hacer thought very much about to traditions versus modernization. It is the last of the film of director Ömer Lütfi Akad's Bridal-Wedding-Recoup trilogy. And it is still the inaccessible film of Turkish cinema history with its movie theme, cast, and acting success.

The road runner movie of two clever cheaters turns to a love story.

Meet Vartanus who has devoted her life to her bedridden father; Goncagul who realizes that her Mafioso lover will never marry her. Gulnur who's resigned herself to daily beatings as long as her husband doesn't touch the kids, Tulay who's shattered every time her mother gets beaten; hairdresser Fusun who tends to see things on the bright side. These are the women who transport Eylem, each other and perhaps every woman in the country to Last Stop: Kurtulus. The heroines adopt one unwavering principle: to oppose all forms of violence! A dark comedy that's rose-tinted, provocative and fantastic...

Feature-length movie based on the characters and plot(s) of Bewitched (1964), which was very popular in Turkey.

The film begins with the friendship and adventures of two good friends who are the sons of wealthy and powerful families; however, events unfold when one of the families goes bankrupt.