Discoveries from Turkey World Cinema

Kahran tells the story of Mert, who experienced various events in the remote town he went to.

Aslan is a boy who dreams of becoming an aeronautical engineer. Among the belongings of his grandfather, who was a heroic pilot, he comes across clues of literally reviving an old plane.

Leyla and Selin, who have been betrayed by their boyfriends in their love lives, and Demet, who has been warned by her father to stay away from men, join forces and establish a center for revenge. Directed by Hakan Kurşun, the film "Canım Merkez" features Furkan Palalı and Duygu Mercan in the cast.

The story of a gentleman who ventures into the mountains.

The film depicts Aliye’s patriotism. The entire country is under occupation. Aliye, a newly appointed teacher in Anatolia, settles in the house of Ömer Efendi, a leading figure in the town. The Nationalist Forces are not afraid to give the town to the enemy troops for their own benefit and will try everything to send Captain Fuat Bey, Aliye’s fiancé, away from the town.

Kuzey runs a hotel called Karayel in Eski Foça with his friend Sami. In 1998, a young and beautiful woman named Şafak comes to Eski Foça to conduct research on Greek villages and stays at the Karayel Hotel. Şafak falls in love with Kuzey, but Kuzey only cares for her. Şafak leaves Kuzey five times, but always returns… On her final departure, she disappears while driving away. All searches prove fruitless; Şafak is missing. Kuzey continues searching for Şafak for five years with his friend, the fisherman Yunus… In 2003, Çiğdem arrives at the hotel. Çiğdem, who is Kuzey’s brother’s assistant, takes on the hotel’s debts and saves it from bankruptcy. During this time, Çiğdem also develops feelings for Kuzey. This only serves to remind Kuzey of Şafak once again. After Fisherman Yunus tells him that he found the remains of Şafak’s car underwater, Kuzey leaves the hotel. He goes to the same place to meet Şafak…

Irfan is an engineer working in the Highways Department. He is the controller of the Bosphorus Bridge, which was started to be built at that time, and the chief architect of the Third Golden Horn Bridge. Ali, one of Irfan's friends, becomes a land mafia.

Murat works as an ambulance driver at a hospital. However, the money he earns is not enough to support his family. A lawyer named Turhan offers Murat to commit a robbery together. Murat accepts because he needs the money. They carry out the robbery, but Turhan does not keep his word. After the robbery, he kills everyone and escapes with the money. Murat is seriously injured and arrested by the police. Turhan learns that Murat is still alive. He wants to prevent Murat from testifying in court. He kills Murat's wife and takes his son Erkan, raising him as his own man. Turhan will try to eliminate Murat using Erkan.

Sefer, a fisherman from the village of Mitari in Rize, is in love with a girl named Zekiye. Although Zekiye loves him, she refuses to marry Sefer because she finds him rude. However, Sefer kidnaps her and takes her by force, and Zekiye, unable to bear this insult to her pride, runs away from home. Sefer searches everywhere but cannot find Zekiye. Some time later, he hears that Zekiye has fallen into a life of prostitution in Istanbul. This time, Sefer searches for her in Istanbul and, just as he is about to give up hope, he encounters Zekiye. He is determined to kill her and restore his honor.

The story of a couple on their honeymoon who try to reconcile their friends, who have decided to break up due to a misunderstanding.

Ali, the caliph of the Islamic State between 656 and 661.

A man who wants to raise his daughter, Aysegul, away from modern life moves to a mountain with his daughter. One day a handsome, bankrupt man comes to mountains. Aysegul falls for him, which led her to join the corrupt modern life.

A love story begins in an Istanbul bookstore. A young engineer meets a schoolgirl in her final year of studies. He follows her to her home. The next day, he looks again for her, and again and again. Slowly, he overcomes her shyness to win her affection, and finally her love.

A dramatic love story between a blind man and woman.

Ferit wins a large prize in the lottery and buys a car, then goes on vacation with his friends. He is very impressed by Semra, whom he meets at the hotel. However, Semra is married to Abdüllatif, an elderly and wealthy merchant from Adana. Ferit's luck and money attract the attention of the couple. Because things are not as they seem. The young woman, who learns where Ferit keeps his money, tries to rob him one night. When caught, she confesses everything. The old man is not her husband but her uncle, with whom she has been committing thefts for years. Her real name is Zehra, and she is a member of a very famous family of robbers. However, when Zehra falls in love with Ferit over time, things change.

The lawyer she works for fires her because she is not beautiful. She starts working at the company owned by Cemil and Fikret, who are partners. However, when Cemil and Fikret discuss her flaws among themselves, Ruhsar overhears them. When they go on a business trip to Izmir, Ruhsar takes care of herself. Upon this, Cemil and Fikret try to get close to Ruhsar. However, Ruhsar does not give them the time of day. To confront her bosses with their insults, Ruhsar will play a trick on them.

Franjo's mid-life crisis isn't made any easier by the recent passing of his best friend and a terrible divorce. Being unable to cope with this in a mature way, he slips into alcoholism, trapping himself in an endless loop of his own making.

Yılmaz is a young police officer. Yılmaz and his wife Hülya start a family, which grows with the birth of their children. As their children begin to grow up, the couple observes some unusual behaviors in them. Their children have difficulty communicating with their peers. Their children, who cannot speak until the age of 3, cannot form sentences like their peers when they do start to speak. One day, when the family takes their children to the park, they meet a neurologist, and this encounter leads them to learn about autism.

When Commissioner Okan returns to his new post with his beloved wife Lale and son Mert, he is greeted with great excitement and joy. However, their first day in the city is marred by a great tragedy. Commissioner Okan's wife and son lose their lives in an attack. Losing his faith in justice, Commissioner Okan loses himself in his quest for revenge and decides to take justice into his own hands with five men. However, this is not just a journey focused on revenge, but also a process of understanding the pain within them and the loved ones they have lost.They realize that they have made many choices in life and must confront the consequences of those choices. Two Good, Two Bad, Five Men is a drama film that delves into the depths of the quest for justice.

Salim, Veysel and Şenol are three brothers living in a rural house. Salim and Veysel work as shepherds, while Şenol, forced to leave school by Salim, cares for their bedridden mother and handles household chores. Salim’s costly dream of marriage binds the brothers, leading to a final confrontation.

The Future Groom tells the story of a groom-to-be who sets out to ask for the girl he loves from his family. Sema and Hasan are a couple who are planning to get married. Taking action for this, Hasan sets off from Istanbul to Cyprus to ask for Sema, the daughter of a Cypriot family. However, when the groom candidate Hasan sets foot in Cyprus, the peaceful island life is turned upside down. The family, who has been living a quiet life on the island until this time, faces strange situations because of Hasan, a man who makes a mess when he gets worried.

A new law is passed which makes the act of reading subject to a license. After waiting in line to get his license, Ali finds himself stuck with a permit that allows him to access only certain types of books. Ali does not give up easily. Under the gaze of men in uniform, he will try every possible way to get the books he wants.

The story of a doctor who loses his memory in Africa, returns to Istanbul, and falls in love again with his ex-girlfriend, whom he married.

Meçhul is a story about a writer who have to fight both personal and environmental challenges to seek meaning in life.

The book written by a good gin from the Qur'an once centuries ago comes to protectors every hundred years. These protectors are called Guardians. In 1365, Demirci goes to the city of Bukhari in Egypt again to solve a case of a genie.

Richard Harrison is the Mob hit man who finds friendships can get you into trouble when he meets an old buddy who turns out to be part of an opposing family!

A retired teacher and a very succesful female banker meets at a holiday resort incidentally. The woman is sick and tired of her workload/housework and his husband while the man has escaped from his monotonous lifestyle. He is up to settle in a village nearby where he thinks he will live his dream in solitude. While looking for a place to rent, they get close and fall in love with each other. But their lifestyles and characters are quite different.

The most famous thing about Bitlis, as evoked by the song "Bitlis'te 5 minare" (Five Minarets in Bitlis), is the unique atmosphere of this small city, famous for its parched lands, historical fabric, and tobacco. Medine is an elderly woman living with her three adult children—one an imam at a mosque, one a worker at a cigarette factory, and the other a student at a tutoring center—and is overwhelmed by their troubles. The unexpected return of her fourth child, who was involved in pirated CD sales in Istanbul, escalates the problems and pushes the family into an even more untenable situation. In this distant and suffocating city, everyone—from the wounded cow roaming the hills to the imam at the mosque—has an issue related to pride. As the camera draws closer to its characters and events, it reveals that things are not as they seem, sparking our curiosity to understand the truth.

Yilmaz is released from prison, while trying to talk to the girl he loves, on the other hand, he embarks on a tough struggle against the order established by a landowner.

The movie is about the experiences of a young girl with heart disease and her boyfriend who tries to save her. Mahmut and Nazlı, who live in a small town, are counting the days for their wedding. Nazlı has a disease whose cause is unknown. Immediately after the engagement, the couple went to Istanbul for treatment, settled in a house there, and started working in a factory. Meanwhile, as a result of the tests performed at the hospital, it is revealed that Nazlı needs serious heart surgery. It is not possible for Mahmut to provide the money necessary for the surgery. At that time, a news he saw in the newspaper pushes Mahmut to make a plan. If the plan is successful, Nazlı's life will be saved. However, in this case, the two young people will have to be separated.

The story of Hüsnü, a football enthusiast who has dreamed of playing the field for years.

The story is based on a fictional account of the events that unfold between a film crew who come to shoot a movie in a remote village in Anatolia and the villagers. It attempts to convey the pure and innocent feelings that Mazlum, a young villager, has for the film actress Müjde. After the filmmakers finish their work and the crew returns to Istanbul, Mazlum follows Müjde to Istanbul due to his longing for her, leading to some interesting developments...

Kaan has always been looking for a meaning in his life. Gizem and Bengi were in love but the city didn't welcome much girls like them. Fuat had spent his life as a homeless in the streets of Istanbul. There has been a belief that an old spiritual ship once got stuck in Istanbul. A ship that would only be visible to the ones who would belong to it, who would need it in their lives. A ship that would take them to where they belong to. The ship was about to take off. The film is inspired by the short animation film called "How Did The Amentu Ship Move", made in 1970 by Tonguç Yaşar and Sezer Tansuğ.

Restless and young, best buddies Selim and Çaça live a meager existence on the outskirts of Istanbul. By day they breed pigeons on the roof, by night they roam the streets with their entourage in their pimped-up car, "My Orange Angel". Their neighborhood's view of the city's gigantic business towers accelerates their ambitions. The two buddies want to open their own parking-lot business near a gigantic mall, and they just might get lucky, since they're supported by the local mafia boss.

Being surrounded by the dark political events in Kurdistan of Turkey at 1990’s as a child, Mirza cannot escape from being a victim of those devastating events that have been in existence for a long time. He is overclouded with deep misery and after his mother’s death, Mirza becomes a passive and introverted child who struggles with bad dreams. However, his life changes upon arrival of a guest named Mir Ahmed, with who develop friendship after Mir Ahmed’s persistent effort.

Ahmet, a taxi driver, meets businessman Ekrem Kirişçi. He begins working as his personal driver. He falls in love with Ayşe, a maid who works in a mansion near Ekrem Bey's house. They meet by chance. However, Ayşe mistakenly believes that Ahmet is the businessman Ekrem. Ahmet cannot reveal the truth to Ayşe. One day, Ekrem Bey and Ahmet go on a business trip. Ahmet writes letters to Ayşe using Ekrem Bey's name. The letters Ahmet writes will get Ekrem Bey into trouble.

Filmed on location in the West Bank in the immediate aftermath of the Gaza genocide that began on October 7, this documentary sheds light on the alleged support provided by the Israeli state and army to radical groups. Through the perspectives of both perpetrators and witnesses, it recounts the terror and land theft carried out by radical illegal settlers against Palestinians.

Can, who has just spawned in a forest dominated by silence, is running away from someone in fear. He doesn't know who or why he is running away from, but along the way he desperately tries to make sense of this bizarre world that he's in. And after a while, while he's searching for a way out, he finds himself stuck among strange places and people.

The duty of taking the tax return forms of the villagers to the big city is assigned to a naive young guy. The villagers trust him, and hand their tax return forms to him. Taking the forms along with the lunchbox full of beans his mother cooked for him, he's underway. But he meets some weird people on the way, who also run into some other weird people, and things start to follow an unexpected path for everyone involved, bringing hillarious moments along.

Yılmaz and Sinan, who want to go to the village where the film was shot to do some research, set off with their girlfriends Eda and Sema to keep watch over them. Upon arriving at the village where the events took place, the friends head to a cemetery. Without wasting any time, the group begins to dig up the grave of an Armenian nun who was buried 400 years ago with a bracelet on her arm. However, the talismans that appear as they begin digging the grave lead to terrifying events.

Songbirds are disappearing at an alarming rate. The Messenger is a visually thrilling ode to the beauty and importance of the imperiled songbird, and what it means to all of us on both a global and human level if we lose them.

The Flag is a fictional short film that tells the story of a misunderstanding of Eylem, who lives alone in a conservative district of Istanbul. Film based on a true story and narrated with black comedy elements.