Discoveries from Turkey World Cinema

"Letters from Silivri" draws on letters of the Turkish philanthropist and public intellectual Osman Kavala to document a timeline of his imprisonment. By separating voice and image the film intends to create an echo chamber that allows audiences to listen more carefully to Kavala’s letters, while at the same time place his words in context to a civil society.

A love story set in a village. It is a tale of love that prevails over the feudal lord.

Leyla, who has no choice but to accept her father's offer, tries to keep her pregnancy secret, but the truth eventually comes to light.

Doğan is a young and successful surgeon living in Istanbul. He works at a hospital owned by his father Faruk, who is also a doctor. Having received a Western education, Doğan is unfamiliar with his own country and believes that his life is limited to Istanbul. Problems with his father and fiancée lead him into a dead end. During this time, he receives an offer from the Ministry of the Interior and agrees to go to a field hospital in Gaziantep to perform surgery on an important patient for the government. In Gaziantep, he meets Ayşe, a translator at the same hospital who fled the war in Syria. Doğan's decision to go to Gaziantep will change his entire life.

Çeto and Molla, who are brothers-in-law, run a tin shop. The brothers-in-law, who are in-laws, cannot get along with their mother-in-law. During a meal, they argue with their mother-in-law again. To prove that they are right, Molla grapples with his mother-in-law, while Çeto grapples with his wife. The two brothers-in-law, who want to win, will do everything they can.

Directed by Zeki Ökten.

Rifat is in the preparation process of a movie about strangers chatting at bus stops, together with his long-time friend and producer, Serhat. as Rifat gets more lonely and isolated, he reluctantly asks his brother in law for financial help. Rifat, who starts to face people around him even more closely as he does not get the reactions he expected during this process, gets lost in a vicious cycle in which he keeps changing the scenario for his film.

The film deals with the bleeding wound of smuggling in the Southeast.

Stories of Turkish people living in three European cities Madrid, Paris, and Berlin. Most are illegal immigrants, and while seeking for permits or living in hide outs they go through life dealing with humiliation, insecurities, betrayals, self-pity. The stories reflect the schizophrenic nature of the immigrant world, which turns the movie into something more than life in Europe.

A young man lost in crowds in Istanbul. His only wish is to be a teacher like his mother, but after graduation years pass by without assignment. Every year he feels more embarrassed for depending on his old mother and more alone against the world. So he creates a dreamworld to make his mother happy while working for temporary jobs.

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.

After separating from his wife, Ismail uses his last money to travel from Istanbul to Malatya to stay with his friends Selim and Tolga. Selim is a career-driven liar, while Tolga is a university graduate who cannot find a job. After arriving in Malatya, Ismail is influenced by Selim and comes to believe that a career is the most important thing in life. He then tries to deceive women online by lying. However, he ends up facing unexpected events.

The story of Selim, who tries to make a living by driving a taxi, searching for a way out after his car, which is his main source of livelihood, becomes nearly inoperable.

While the government was in a deep sleep, the brain staff of the revolution was completing its final preparations at the Military Academy, there were only a few hours left for the revolution that had been prepared for six years. Despite six years of preparation, there was actually no serious plan at hand. An unplanned, unscheduled full night raid was to be organized. The management level of the army was pro-government. Therefore, it was impossible for the intervention to take place within the chain of command. This was to be a grassroots military operation. The army of the operation consisted of young cadets. Except for the Harbiye, there was no force at hand. It was even possible for units such as the Guards Regiment and the Central Command to resist. That's how the day of May 27 began with the unknown and risks. Major General Cemal Madanoğlu, the commander of the Revolution Headquarters, would have the last word...

Twin sisters Katre and Birsu and their friends encounter unexpected events while preparing for a party where they will gather one last time before exams.

"Haram Oldu" marks Ferdi Tayfur's directorial debut. The story centres around Ferdi, a famous singer, who is married to Nuran. Their marriage is an unhappy one, largely because of Nuran’s flamboyant, showy lifestyle — she seems to crave the public appearances, extravagance and social status that comes with being married to a celebrity. Ferdi, despite his fame, feels stifled by this and isn’t able to find peace or happiness within the marriage. In the midst of his marital problems, Ferdi meets Şerife, another woman with whom he falls in love. He decides he wants to leave Nuran and divorce her in order to be with Şerife. However, his plans are far from straightforward; Nuran refuses to accept a divorce and this creates tension and conflict.

The story of a photographer who witnessed a murder and his struggle with the killers.

Umut, a strange, introverted, born young man, lives with his mother Leyla in a slum in Istanbul Esenler, and works as an apprentice in an auto repair shop. Realizing that her mother has been acting strangely recently, Umut begins to follow her secretly and learns that Leyla is with a man. The facts about the identity of this man will turn Umut's life upside down ... In the second part of the film, a completely different Umut goes after a completely different Leyla ...

In Byzantine Empire, a man (hired to repair the caslte) is wrongly accused of killing a young girl and sentenced to death.

Bünyamin corners Menekşe, one of the village's beautiful girls, in the hayloft. While they are still flirting, Menekşe's brother İbo witnesses the situation and stirs up the village. Bünyamin has no choice but to flee, because Menekşe's brothers Saffet and Süleyman are merciless. While Bünyamin takes refuge with his mother Solmaz, Solmaz realizes that the only solution is to flee the village, despite her anger. Solmaz decides to go to Istanbul with her other children. Solmaz's other son, Mete, and her daughters, Perihan and Nergis, had already moved to Istanbul, married, and started families.

Emrah and Salih are two young university students living in Istanbul. Everything seems normal in their daily lives, but Salih suddenly becomes fascinated with the "science of magic," also known as "havas." Salih's fascination with magic gradually turns into an obsession. He takes things to the next level and wants to control the spirits in the spirit world. Emrah has no idea what is going on, but since they share the same house, his peace of mind is gone, and he finds himself caught up in a cycle he cannot escape. When Salih loses control of everything, Emrah, who begins to see nightmares and no longer has a normal life, finds solace in returning to his family in Izmit. While hoping to find some peace here, those who have been pursuing him do not leave him alone. When his family realizes they cannot help Emrah, they turn to Bakırcı Mehmet Efendi, who has dealt with such matters before.

Zuhal and Ali Osman live a peaceful, happy life with their two children, but when Zuhal becomes pregnant with a third child, a deep conflict arises—Zuhal wants an abortion, fearing it will disrupt their lives, while Ali Osman strongly believes the unborn child has a right to live. As Zuhal undergoes the procedure, a tragic accident strikes: their children’s school bus crashes, and the couple is devastated to learn that both of their children have died.

About the mysterious disappearance of a man who lives alone in a city where people are vanished mysteriously, who is alienated from society and ignorant to social tragedies.

This film tells the story of who are young people fall in love each other in enemies two villages. There is hostility between Ören village and Alaca village. Even so, no one knows what is problems between two villages. Hasan is from Alaca village, he loves Rüstem's girl which is name Zeliha from other village. These two youngs sometimes meet each other and everyone knows that. But no one tells anything because of Murat, is friend with Hasan and he lives at the Ören village. Elders of Alaca went to Ören village for want to girl from her father. Everyone hope hostilities will end between the two villages through this marriage. But Rüstem be unwilling to this marriage. So it goes...

Two brothers... They are trying to make money by collecting gas bomb capsules that the police use against the demonstrators in demonstrations.

Revolving around an old man who refuses to leave his otherwise evacuated village in Kurdish Turkey, "Ax (The Land)" is a twenty-seven-minute long short film about the forced deportations of Kurdish villages by the Turkish military.

The film is about the spirit of Beşiktaş, which a grandfather wants to inflict on his grandchild.

During one of his campaigns, Malkoçoğlu Ali Bey was taken prisoner by Homer and spent years in a dungeon, enduring torture. He eventually escapes. Separated from his beloved wife and his unknown son Polat, he continues his life as a cavalry leader on horseback. His son's desire to become a cavalryman brings together the father and son, who do not know each other. They are given a mission: to prevent Cem Sultan, the son of Fatih Sultan Mehmet and the blood brother of Malkoçoğlu Ali Bey, from falling into the hands of the Venetians. This film tells the story of Malkoçoğlu Ali Bey, the son of the famous raider Malkoçoğlu Bali Bey, who was educated at the Enderun-ı Hümayün, the palace university founded by Fatih Sultan Mehmed Han. He served as the governor of Sofia and was martyred in the Battle of Çaldıran in 1514.

The Magnificent Seven, Turksploitation style.

İffet goes on a voyage with her father, who is a captain. She falls in love with a man named Bilal who works on the ship, and they become intimate. At the end of the voyage, Bilal is arrested for smuggling. Some time later, İffet learns that she is pregnant. Upon learning of this, her neighbor Melek tries to take advantage of İffet's situation.

Aşık Ziyeddin, an advanced word master in Anatolia of the 60-70s, is in an effort to train an apprentice to continue his profession of word mastery and love interest. The Apprentice Mustafa, who undertakes this hard work, has lost his heart to a girl older than him. He dreams of turning the heart of Gülbeyaz, who does not take care of himself by drinking some food from his hand to become a "Lover of Rights". However, Mustafa's dreams will be tested by religion, destiny, politics and poverty.

The experiences of a young man who is in love with the daughter of a prostitute

Two rival companies take it too far when one side attacks Mr. Abbas, the owner of the other company. In a hopeless move, he hires a very famous thug / fighter for protection: Sahin, nicknamed "Deli" (Mad). Sahin's reputation is so intimidating that the news of him being hired causes a distress in Mr. Abbas's rivals, even before he appears in town. Things are looking up for Mr. Abbas. However, the welcome committee waiting for Sahin's arrival are shocked and disappointed at what they see: He's a bum who can hardly stand, with a bottle in his hand at all times instead of a gun. The plot is loosely based on Cat Ballou (1965).

Hayriye is afraid of the future. Every day, while waiting for his beloved Ali to return from fishing on the long wooden pier, she disappears one day; it is Ali' turn to wait.

Unsuccessful and unlucky documentarian Ahmet's documentary project about the traditions of Turks living in the Balkans is approved by TRT. This job is the opportunity of a lifetime for Ahmet and a golden opportunity for the Kenyan lions documentary he has always dreamed of making.

Pistachio and Mistik are two brothers who cannot hold on to any business. Somehow they are responsible for the safety of a casino.

The story of a undercover detective who takes revenge on the cartel who killed his family.

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.

Turkish adaptation of the novel “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck.