Discoveries from Turkey World Cinema

Duran Aga kills Eskiya Halil's father and withholds Halil's fiancee and tries to take villagers's field forcible. Because of these Eskiya Halil escapes from prison to revenge.

Two unsure, creative, young friends, Faruk and Behzat plays a poker game. However, the game is not only about the cards but also about what they want to do in their lives.

Ömer, who maintains a traditional family life at the expense of his father, cheats on his wife with a singer. Away from his family day by day, Ömer meets the theater actor Ipek one day. This acquaintance soon leads to a forbidden love between Ömer and Ipek.

Ali, who is in love with his step-sister whom he grew up with, wants to take over the farm where they work with three bad guys.

A white-slave gang, specializing in young girls, is unmasked by a journalist.

Samet invites his friends over to celebrate his promotion to general manager. While feeding the cats before entering the house, he sees the woman on the ground floor undressing and runs away when she notices him, which leads to the doorman being blamed. His wife Zeynep, who has always defended the doorman while discussing this issue with her friends, will she defend what she believes is right when she learns that Samet is the real culprit? Or will she protect her interests?

Failing to confess his love and reluctantly accompanying the famous actress Helin as a mandatory friend Cafer who mocked life coaches, energetic individuals, fortune-tellers, suddenly finds himself as the country's most popular life coach.

Highway Killers tells the story of two friends who rent a car and start killing people who cross their path. The two men, who set out on the road after renting a car, begin robbing shops and gas stations along the highway under the influence of heavy drugs. Meanwhile, the pair, who start killing people who cross their path with a pump-action shotgun, make plans to flee the country via the southern border.

Turkish democracy got over the 27th of May and the 12th of March and set off again, but the storm did not subside and the mutual reckoning was not over. On the contrary, new fronts were opened in the country and blood began to flow like a gutter. Finally, on September 12, there was a knock on the door again. Those who came that day changed everything, everything. Nothing would ever be the same again, nothing would be the same as before.

The dystopia of reality through employees who enter the workplace with coffins, an elevator as a cemetery in the plazas, mechanized white-collar people, people who get money out of their heads, businessmen snarling at each other and a boss who throws up money.

"Ronaldo" tells the story of Azad, a child that no one has seen, or rather, a child everyone has ignored. Azad's father died in an air raid in the early days of the war. The only thing remaining from his father is the soccer ball that he doesn't let go. The ball, as the only memory of his father, also represents his passion for football. Azad settled on the border of a shipyard with his mother, and they had one goal: to move to another country by the sea.

The film is about the creepy stuff that happens to a group playing the popular Escape Room game. Two old friends who are really into escape rooms risk everything to rent a house for an escape game. Everything is going great. The players begin searching for clues to escape the house. However, upon discovering an unexplored room in the old house, a curse that had been sealed away for years is unleashed. The final Night Session customers who arrive at the house find themselves trapped inside the house, locked in with the curse. The escape room game has now turned into a real-life survival struggle.

Erol, a gas station attendant, is saved from arrest by his boss Remzi and in return accepts a dangerous task to kidnap billionaire Tacettin Bey, only to accidentally rescue an unsuspecting elderly man who turns out to be their intended target.

The story of a villager trying to save his son who has rabies, despite harsh natural conditions.

An idealist district governor, Selahattin Bey, adopts Yusuf, orphaned after his family was killed by thugs. Yusuf falls in love with Muazzez, the daughter of Selahattin. But when Hilmi Bey’s son Şakir also wants to marry Muazzez, a conflict escalates.

The film focuses on the site of Kut al-Amara, an important episode in the war between the British Empire and the Ottoman Empire in 1916 during World War I.

Ahmet, a Turkish guy in his early twenties visit his grandfather's abandoned mansion located somewhere in the northern Anatolia. Thinking that he would return to where he spent his early childhood, only to find out that the place is now in ruins. When he goes to sleep. An unexpected angel will visit him to give her a blessing of the truth. He wakes up being not the guy he was before.

A small-town mechanic, Tamer, fixes the car of two women stranded on the road; afterward, one invites him to perform at the city nightclub where he struggles to adapt to the urban lifestyle.

The story of two profiteers, Kont and Cessi, captures a valuable diamond causing the mafia go after them.

Hakan who made arranged marriage with his best friend in order to have a child, found himself in an unexpected love and was devastated with the death of her, Derya, in childbirth. On the other side, Candan who is trying to deal with her painful but unique childhood. As Hakan and Candan are suppose to complete each other's life, it is not going to be that easy get used to each other.

Following the death of her taxi driver father, Nebahat has to choose between poverty and being a driver herself. Despite the troubles caused by her fiancé, his mother, rascal drivers and the owner of the cab she chooses to become Nebahat the Cabbie.

There is a sculpture of "buddha" with biggest ruby-eyed in temple from prehistoric ages. There are many adventurer look for this sculpture. An adventurer from Turkey is killed and Murat Davman searches this murder.

A film director, disillusioned with the state of the world, decides to intervene in life itself by making a movie. He mortgages his family’s land and country house - not because his goal is to shoot a film, but to create a brand‐new model of production and, above all, a new ethics of creation. He publishes an impassioned manifesto calling on young people to join him, and soon the country house overflows with hopeful applicants who, inspired by his words, seek not just a job but the thrilling adventure of filmmaking and a chance at a new life.

A documentary-style drama that presents brief sketches of famed Anatolian saints and spiritual leaders such as Mevlana, Hacı Bektaş-ı Veli, and Eskici Baba. Through these reverent vignettes, the film highlights their teachings and enduring influence in Turkish culture and religious life.

Tevfik Gürol is a director whose projects are not going well. Whatever project he and his brother-in-law Kuntiz take on, they ruin it. Seeing how much money renowned producer Taner Dişli has made from his biographical films, Tevfik Gürol decides to make a biographical film about Mahmut Tuncer in order to pay off the loan he took from loan sharks. However, there is a problem: Mahmut Tuncer is still alive and is a forgotten Turkish singer. Will this film be a success?

The turbulent history of a country will be narrated through a modern ballet imbued with extraordinary aesthetics and poetry, staged as if on a theater stage. While the events are narrated solely through the modern ballet from a historical perspective, the impact of these events on society and their reflections on individuals are narrated through a love story embedded in the main story. Finally, an analysis is presented to the audience, composed of people from all segments of society, of how these events shaped society in 1990.

Sevket is a successful attorney, happily married and father of a daughter. Shadows cast on his happy family life as his client Leyla seduces him. He leaves home and lives a terrible life. As Leyla cheats on him, Sevket wants to kill her. He kills her lover and is jailed. His wife dies and his daughter Sevgi falls in the hands of Leyla who runs a brothel. On his release, Sevket finds the trace of Sevgi and Leyla. He kills Leyla and saves his daughter. The court sets him free however, in the end the old man gets back his daughter and happiness.

The story of two siblings who were thrown in different directions at a young age.

The story of love between a Turkish officer who went to the island during the Cyprus landing and a woman who is a native Turkish of Cyprus.

The story of a family who moved from a village to Istanbul with two children in order to live a better life, but ended up living in an abandoned bus due to poverty and lack of accommodation.

Rabia is a young woman who grew up worshiping alongside her religious father. Rabia, who was taken prisoner by the slave trader Ammar, is sold to Emir Hanzade as a concubine. Emir, who fell in love as soon as he saw his concubine, began to torture Rabia when he could not find her love back. Resisting the difficulties she experienced, Rabia's faith gets stronger in this process. As time passed, Rabia became one of the saints of her religion.

It is about a fake marriage between a poor man trying to raise money for his sister's treatment and a millionaire girl. Kemal Polat is a ship engineer working in a small boat workshop. Kemal, who rescued his brother who had disappeared some time ago from the hands of female traffickers, commits a series of murders and is sentenced to death. Kemal's former partner, Haşmet, also died during the events. Haşmet was a famous millionaire and left his inheritance to his daughter Necla on one condition. The condition in the will was that Necla marry Kemal. However, Necla was planning to marry Erol at the time. Kemal considers getting out of the situation by entering into a fake marriage due to his death sentence. However, things do not go as Necla planned, and Kemal escapes the death sentence. The two will be forced to continue the marriage charade for some time.

A devoted portrait photographer Murat and flower-selling entertainer Zeynep, who frequently clash yet deeply love each other while working at the same nightclub, find their relationship upended after Zeynep saves mafia boss Bekir from a violent attack and is injured in the process. As Bekir nurses her back to health, he falls for her, forcing Zeynep to choose between the two lovers.

When his father, who went to Russia for work, could not send money home for a long time, Ahmet starts to work out the school at a mini-market in the luxury site, near the shanty neighbourhood here they live. Falling in love with his classmate Kezban, Ahmet decides to learn how to play basketball when he finds her interest in Erhan, who came to school one day with basketball quipments and clothes. However, there is an important problem to solve; there is no basketball spot in their neighbourhood where they can play basketball. Ahmet tries to find a way to overcome this barrier.

Leyla and Kerem are a couple who got married in Rome. Returning home to meet Leyla's family, whom she can't stop raving about, the couple finds themselves in the midst of a major test. Kerem, who is very excited to meet Leyla's family, panics when he encounters a flirtatious father, a con artist brother, a witchy aunt, a gambler brother, and a very flirtatious sister-in-law.

Turgut is a young and talented medical student. During his studies, he meets Leyla, a singer. Turgut gives up his studies for love, and their whirlwind relationship begins. However, there are things about Leyla that Turgut does not know. Leyla works for a gang, and Turgut will become a victim of this gang. This time, they must steal Hülya and her mother's jewels. Turgut's task is to make Hülya fall in love with him and assist in the theft of the jewels.

The film is a comic book adaptation in the style of Italian spaghetti westerns.

Hayde Bre is about the experiences of Şaban Ağa, who lives an ordinary life in a small town with his wife and friends, as he navigates between rural and urban life.

Imdat is a poor, uneducated, working class window cleaner who has migrated to the big city. As he cleans the windows of the private TV channel Kanal I, the president of the channel, Berk, discovers that Imdat has an uncanny ability to sense what program will yield the best ratings and what is likely to be panned by audiences, thus Berk begins milking Imdat's unique ability to score ratings. Soon Imdat finds himself replacing the president and leading the TV channel. He goes on to produce some truly tasteless and exploitative programs that enjoy massive ratings, eventually becoming part of the dirty media games himself.

Adem Haberdar's life takes a completely different turn when he has to leave the police after failing an important operation. Pursuing the gang that caused him to quit his job, Adem has to take over a chicken restaurant in order to follow the gang.

A failing band plans a bank robbery in order to make it big with a record deal.

Shakespeare's 'King Lear' travelling on the dusty and risky roads to the remotest forgotten villages in the mountains of Turkey where even drinking water can hardly reach, turns delicately into 'Queen Lear' in the hands of a peasant-women theatre group. In the early 2000s, a handful of peasant women from the mountains of southern Turkey formed a theater group, which later became the subject of the documentary, The Play. The women acted out their own life stories in the village, and the play changed their lives. Now, they take to the road with an adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear, traveling the dusty, dangerous roads to the farthest-flung mountain villages where there isn't even running water. On the road, their lives merge with the world of King Lear and become bound up with "the good and the bad", "the young and the old", "the rich and the poor", "the honest and the dishonest" of the play.

Murat is a successful journalist. One day a girl named Aysel is kidnapped and raped by three men. Murat is misinformed about the case, so he distorts the whole story which deeply saddens Aysel's family. Murat decides to look into this case again and finds out that the three men are sons of well-off families and writes about them in his articles. Murat's bosses ask him to resign, but Murat doesn't give up. In the end, the culprits are delivered to the justice. However, one day Murat is found dead.

Zeynep cannot even receive letters from her husband Murat in Germany. She waits longingly for him to return. When Murat returns to the village, he is accompanied by his German girlfriend Gertha. Shortly thereafter, Murat returns to Germany with his friends. He sends a letter stating his intention to divorce Zeynep. However, Zeynep is carrying Murat's child. She decides to go to Munich to tell Murat the truth. But in Germany, an unexpected life awaits her.

Kerem and Ebru are a couple in love. However, their families' centuries-old feud is the biggest obstacle standing in their way. Ebru's family decides to marry her off to Bahri in order to make her forget Kerem. But Kerem and Ebru, who refuse to be separated no matter what, run away on their wedding day.