Discoveries from Turkey World Cinema

An incredible student movie. We are so talented and funny i hope none of us never go bald.

Murat, who is a university student, lives with his girlfriend Ece. Ece's psychology, who has been having strange dreams recently, breaks down day by day. One day, Murat comes home with his friend Oğuz and drinks something. Meanwhile, Ece, who is sleeping in her room, suddenly wakes up having the same dream again. Murat and Oğuz, who are saddened by Ece's situation, start to investigate the dream that Ece has lasting. Their investigation brings with it a series of horrors.

Sevda Erses is a singer who has devoted herself to Turkish classical music and strives to be principled in her work. She is careful not to go beyond professional relationships with her boss and listeners, which is why her career has stagnated. As part of her Anatolian tour with a company, Erses also gives concerts in a small town. The singer not only receives great interest from the local people but also unintentionally captivates the town's leader. However, her heart belongs to an engineer she met in the same town.

32.Day, a news classic by Mehmet Ali Birand, is with you this time with the documentary 50 Years of Cyprus!

Ilir Luma, a martial arts master specialized in the Pelasgian art of "Mundije", escaped the communist regime, when he was only 14 years old. He'd witnessed the hanging of a poet in the city of Kukes, Albania. In Germany, at a Taekwondo school, he meets Ana, who became his student and his girlfriend. Ilir promised to be there for her, whenever she needs him. Thirty years later, Ana is kidnapped and sent to Mexico.

Max and Missy have been best friends for as long as they can remember, and now Max is falling in love with her. But strange things start happening to him at school. He can see through walls, hear distant voices, and he suddenly has super-human strength! When students start mysteriously disappearing after school Max and his friends stumble upon a sinister plot by his teachers to take over the world. And when they kidnap Missy, Max must put his new found superpowers to the test to save the girl he loves.

Viktor is no longer alive. Anton travels to Istanbul to break the sad news to Aylin, a mutual friend. In this short film, Irem Gökçen and Aron Eichhorn create a study of things that are lost and those that are beginning, oscillating between the unsaid, melancholy, and courage.

32.Day, a news classic by Mehmet Ali Birand, is with you this time with the documentary 50 Years of Cyprus!

Four twenty somethings in contemporary Istanbul: Zeynep is a student who feels distressed from following daily news. Her housemate Ayşe tries to flee abroad because she cannot see a future for herself in Turkey. Mehmet is a married engineer who is never satisfied with his above-average life, while unemployed Ali feels stuck living with his parents. Coincidences bring them together in a playful manner. Almost Entirely a Slight Disaster explores the anxieties faced by the new generation with its humorous and intertwined ways.

A group of mysterious people organizes a private event in an abandoned mansion. Soon with the arrival of the guests things will change.

The true story of Cengiz, who went to the army.

Asli, living in Istanbul, is forced to return to a village she hasn't seen in 20 years and care for her disabled brother after receiving news of the death of the father she hasn't seen in years. Although she plans to return to Istanbul at the first opportunity, when she realizes that behind the death of her father there is a great sin hidden by all the villagers, Asli decides to fight the curse of the demons that has befallen the village and the village community.

Suna, fifty year old, a poor woman with no income, finds a place to stay by marrying an old man. Suna hates making love with her husband. Her restless heart won't give her or anyone close to him peace. She gets depressed. She drinks alcohol secretly. She meets someone and has bad experiences in there.

After the sudden loss of her parents, 12-year-old İrem moves in with her estranged grandmother on a semi-industrial dairy farm. As she witnesses the routine separation of newborn calves from their mothers, İrem becomes increasingly troubled by the quiet violence embedded in everyday practice to gain more milk. This unsettling realization leads her to make a small but radical decision: to free the pregnant cows from the farm, with the help of Halid, an orphan apprenticed to the farm’s veterinarian.

Ali, an alcoholic and unrespected man, lives a modest life in Istanbul. His world changes when Ekrem, a notorious gangster known as “Yakışıklı,” seeks refuge in his home after committing murder.

When March of 1971 knocked on the door, a military intervention was imminent in the country. Bombs were exploding in a strange way from right to left, and the urban guerrilla was resorting to unconventional acts such as bank robbery and kidnapping. The generals had decided to put a stop to this trend. Dynamite was placed under Prime Minister Demirel. The question now was who would ignite the fuse of the dynamite. President Sunay was waiting to watch the approaching explosion silently from Çankaya. Tuğmaç, Chief of General Staff, tried to delay the explosion as much as possible, preferring Demirel to self-destruct. The two generals were watching each other to see who would ignite the fuse first. These two generals were Faruk Gürler and Muhsin Batur. The fire was in their hands. They were going to detonate the dynamite...

A murderer, organ mafia, and a cat and mouse game surrounded by refugees from their lives on the road to freedom. Will the good and the bad lose in the Longest Night seeking answers to the question of law or justice? In the director's chair, the cast of "Longest Night", in which Orhan Kılıç sits, includes names such as Eda Erol, Cem Kılıç, Murat Aydın, Gamze Dar, Mustafa Yılmaz, Ece Müderrisoğlu, Ayça Denker, and Umut Özkan.

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.

The story of rivalry between two forms of winter transport: the horse-drawn sleigh which can take the short cut over the frozen lake and the red minibus which needs to be more devious to beat its rival. While the race goes on other tales of intransigence are told in this land of bards and minstrels.

Deniz and Duru, two girls in high school react strongly when the teacher warns Deniz for having a masculine haircut. Now, they have to face the consequences.

Berna, a theater artist, struggles for the sake of acting only for art at a time when popular culture is dominant. Meanwhile, during a visit to a museum on 'The First Women of History', she is very impressed by the hand-painted portrait of Afife Jale, the first Muslim Turkish actress to appear on stage.

Years of accumulated pain turned into rigid prejudices and built high walls between people. We memorized mistrust without learning to share. Yet it was a common place where the fire fell. Everyone had received their share. Ilyas's healing hand, which he did not withhold from anyone, had come to apply salve to the ailments of not just a few children unaware of everything, but to everyone.

In a religious dormitory where boys between the age of 10-15 live under the fear of God, the headmaster applies an unconventional method to find the missing shoes which ultimately scares the new boy, Ahmet, to death while teaching a life lesson to Hakan who is the most experienced of all.

Tahsin, who has begun to suffer from dementia, tries to prove to his son and granddaughter that he was once a clown. However, his efforts to validate the reality of his memories only lead him to question both himself and his sanity. The discrepancy between the person he believes he remembers and the person others say he was drives Tahsin into an identity crisis. Trapped between the colorful past he thinks he recalls and the grayness of the present, Tahsin begins to question who he truly is-and who he is supposed to be.

After being sent voice recordings of their deceased relative, two childhood friends return to the island where they used to spend their summer.

The story of a lottery girl whose life changes because of an inheritance.

Mert Turker, a young psychiatrist who has completed his medical education and expertise, is appointed to a hospital outside of a city in Anatolia. Mert Turker at an interesting point in terms of location, notices the various oddities of the patients, the patients and the working people. However, in the first days everything is going on in normal course.

Başak is a middle-aged, single, successful but obsessive woman. She could not overcome the cancer she had been battling for years and decides to kill herself. It is August and that global warming has taken the whole world by storm she waits for the train that will take her to her death between the rails. Başak sees tortoises between the rails and learns that farmers throw tortoises between the rails to die in the sun. The train that will take her to death never comes.

Arkin takes on a gang in Istanbul that deals in arms smuggling.

Barber Adnan is the neighborhood gossip. He knows everything about his customers in the neighborhood. When Adnan learns he's about to be fired, he clings to his job. Aykut, who is trying to become an internet sensation through his daughter's social media accounts, Merve, who left her city life behind to move to the village, and Meriç, who faced every possible mishap while visiting a village to ask for a girl's hand in marriage—these are the entertaining stories Adnan shares with the audience...

Birce is taking a shower alone in her house on a rainy night. The faint rattling sounds coming from the door heighten the tension in the air. She hears the sounds but is not yet sure whether her mind is playing tricks on her. The door opens; a figure in a black suit enters, his face unseen.

The One Note Man, is a percussionist plays in the last row of a symphonic orchestra without been noticed and appreciated by others. During the concerts, he has only one note to play with his cymbals to attract the attention of a woman among the audience.

The Magnificent Seven, Turksploitation style.

Pick an outfit. You need to get dressed and just go out. How difficult it could be? Check how much cleavage you have. Does it show your bra? Wear a nude one so that it won’t attract attention. Don’t give people the wrong idea. If your boobs show, cover it with a scarf . Just to be sure, use a safety pin so that the scarf doesn’t move. In fact, you don’t actually need the safety pin, just pin an evil eye bead. Now, that’s safe.

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).

The story of a brave young man fighting against a gang that raids a shipping company and prevents drivers from going on an expedition.

A man and his son work together as officers in a lighthouse in Istanbul. The son is bitten by a dog before his duty and as time passes by, he begins to behave strange and in the meantime women at the home begin to worry about this man and his son since the light of lighthouse is not turned on.

A death row escapee unexpectedly saves a troubled young woman attempting suicide during a ferry crossing, and they find refuge together in a secluded house.

The story of an idiotic young man who, under the influence of a TV series, thinks he is Baretta and is ridiculed by those around him under the name Galeta.

Based on a Muazzez Tahsin Berkant novel, the film tells the romance of a young girl who just comes from Istanbul to Izmir.