Discoveries from Turkey World Cinema

Emel is a photographer who leads an ordinary life. Emel's business has not been going well lately, and the company she works for asks her to take a photo for a special exhibition. Upon this situation, Emel goes to a village where terrible events took place in the past to take pictures with her best friend Sofia. Meanwhile, the path of two mysterious men living on the streets, Kürşat and Tuğrul, crosses with Emel and Sofia because of a phone call Kürşat receives in the middle of the night. Two groups of friends who don't know each other find themselves in paranormal events.

The story of five friends who have pinned all their hopes on treasure hunting.

Recep, during his first visit to Istanbul, accidentally entered the film industry and made several movies. However, when image creators put him in ridiculous situations, he abandoned everything and returned to his village. On his second visit to Istanbul, he started a small stool manufacturing workshop. Over time, his business prospered, and he became a stool manufacturer. Married and a father of three, Recep changed his original surname, İbibik, to Oturakgil(Stoolson). However, this time, the stool business became a source of trouble for him.

Revolutionaries passed before the streets of the 1960s on the road to democracy. Then the youth with the victory songs, the workers with the rebel flags, the rightists, the leftists and the putschists again. The country spent 12 years in the grip of the revolution and in the end all roads came to the same crossroads. Ankara was restless in the minutes when the ousted prime minister of the Democratic Party, Adnan Menderes, was hanged. The news of Menderes' execution had not yet come. There was an anxious wait in the houses. Ears were on the radio. Everyone was wondering what happened in Imrali. In the Assembly, the National Unity Committee was in a meeting. They were also trying to learn the fate of Menderes. Suddenly, news came that EP Chairperson Ragıp Gümüşpala and Secretary General Şinasi Osman wanted to meet with the committee urgently. The committee members did not break the request of their former commander Gümüşpala and made an appointment for 14:30...

An unauthorized turkish adaption of "First Blood" (1982).

The film tells the story of the love between shepherd Ahmet and Gülbahar, the daughter of a lord. One day, a horse begins to wait at Ahmet's door. Ahmet tells his mentor Sofi Dede about this incident. Sofi Dede says that the horse is a gift from God to Ahmet. After a while, it becomes clear that the horse belongs to Mahmut Han. However, according to custom, Ahmet cannot return the horse. The people of Ağrı also stand behind Ahmet. Amidst all this, a love story begins between Ahmet and Mahmut Han's daughter, Gülbahar.

The story of a sailor girl who was deceived and thrown into a bar.

The story of two brothers who experience various adventures in a big city in pursuit of their inheritance.

The story of a smuggler gang and a police officer.

A social anthropologist and a convicted criminal who got deported from Germany engage in a dialogue to tell the story of many Turkish migrants from Germany who returned to Turkey to live a better life.

The war units of the Hun Emperor Mete Han and the Chinese Emperor Gao-Zu, the father of the turan tactic used by the Turks for centuries, come face to face in the Battle of Baideng. The war genius Mete Han was going to surround the Chinese with an unexpected war tactic and inflict a heavy defeat on them.

The story of a man who lives outside the law.

Hasbi, an obsessive man in his 30s, lives with his family. Hasbi spends his life reading books, which gives him considerable knowledge of Ancient Greek and Ottoman Turkish. Caught between his tactless father and devoted mother, Hasbi falls in love with his neighbor, Müjgan. However, Müjgan does not share the same feelings for Hasbi. Müjgan is in a relationship with Tanberk, a wealthy and spoiled man, but she ends the relationship once she realizes what kind of person he is. Unaware that Müjgan has left Tanberk, Hasbi devises a plan to separate them.

Widowed at a young age, a woman tries to raise her son.

A war correspondent is on his way back home, boarding a train at a border station. A stowaway child on the train takes refuge in his compartment, while the security is looking for the kid.

There is a story about a German second wife brought from Germany to a village in Erzincan.

Gizem, Esin, and İnci have been close friends since their university days. Although they have different personalities and work in different fields, they share one common concern. They are all eager to get married and build a happy home as soon as possible… Without having even tasted love yet, these three friends, who have become obsessed with finding a husband and believe that anything goes in the pursuit of marriage, have become so skilled at finding the best husband candidate that they have almost turned this search into an art form. We will witness the adventures of three young, attractive, modern women in their 30s as they pursue their quest for "Mr. Right" in the art of finding a husband.

The outcomes of the isolation system and its influence on human life will be told both by the victims and the witnesses.

Pınar Gültekin went missing on July 16, 2020, in the Ula district of Muğla, and her lifeless body was found on July 21, 2020, in a rural forested area of the Menteşe district. The murderer, Cemal Metin Avcı, first wounded Pınar, then burned her, and finally poured concrete over her body. Through Pınar’s case and historical precedents, the film exposes how impunity perpetuates these crimes while highlighting women’s hard-won legal victories and solidarity networks. It juxtaposes the brutality of her murder with her friends’ relentless campaign to preserve her memory, framing their activism as part of a broader feminist resistance. By connecting individual trauma to systemic failure, the film challenges viewers to confront both the roots of gender violence and the transformative power of collective struggle, where mourning becomes mobilization, and loss fuels demands for justice.

Fazilet becomes all alone after the death of her young daughter who was ill since a long time. While trying to cope with the feeling of death, she will find herself in a difficult pursuit after finding a package left from her daughter. With each door she rings in order to obtain some info about it, the package will be more important for Fazilet.

Zarife, a trained bear, and Imdat, her Gipsy master, earn their living on the streets by performing their traditional show. After getting caught and taken to the forest by the city police one day, Zarife's natural instincts start to awaken, making her restless to return home, back to the forests. But this also means a big trouble for Imdat, who relies on Zarife to perform his art as a bear-leader.

Emrah, who works as a receptionist in the night shift of a boutique hotel, is constantly monitored by his boss Adem through security cameras and this surveillance becomes increasingly irritating.

Bizum Hoca is a Black Sea native who, despite not completing his education, is self-taught. He learned everything he knows about religious scholarship from his father, Ahmet Fevzi Hoca, an Islamic scholar. After losing his wife Makbule, Bizum Hoca has not let anyone into his life and is a person whom everyone consults for advice. A cheerful and jovial individual, the teacher also focuses on the spirituality of the Islamic faith. He teaches his congregation that being a moral and conscientious person is as important and universal a value as worship. However, there are those in the congregation who do not agree with what Bizum Hoca says.

Me Nokta Ali is an unlucky, ill-fated young man who works at the population registry office. Due to a clerical error in his birth certificate, he starts life at a disadvantage. He is impulsive, blurting out whatever comes to mind without thinking. After his grandfather's death, Me Nokta Ali moves to the city to work at a hospital. Not only does he cause chaos at the hospital, but he also falls in love.

Feeling an overwhelming pressure to have sex for the first time, Ahmet does what almost all teenage boys in North Cyprus do: He pays for it.

Return to the Nest tells the story of a young woman who, following the death of her mother, sets out to find her father, whom she has never met. In 1985, during the Iran-Iraq War, a large-scale operation is carried out to bring 215 passengers from Iran to Turkey. Among these passengers, whose lives have been saved, is a young Japanese girl named Keiko. Keiko falls deeply in love with Zafer, a lieutenant in the special forces stationed at the Turkish Embassy in Iran. However, the war forces them apart. Zafer manages to get her onto the plane heading to Turkey to save her life. But there is one crucial thing he does not know: Keiko is pregnant. After arriving in Turkey, Keiko gives birth to her daughter Yumi.

Can, accompanied by some of his friends, is on his way to a cursed region. The natives of the place believe that two hundred years ago, after the child of Satan had been slayed, the whole region had been cursed and vanished from the face of the earth. Right when the group reaches the area, bizarre things begin to happen; The problem is that Can is unable to distinguish between reality and his nightmares and is trapped in a limbo between hallucination and the real world.

The paths of Feyza and Bilal, who are from different worlds, cross again after years.

Toprak and his wife Sabuha are killed by Kadir Ağa's men while they are seizing their land. İbrahim survives the attack but is left an orphan. Recep takes İbrahim in as his adopted son and raises him. Recep's daughter Hatçe and İbrahim fall in love. Hatçe goes to Istanbul to study. İbrahim becomes a famous singer. He will devise a plan to take revenge and reunite with his beloved.

Berna realizes she is the only guest at a retreat resort.

Hüsnü is a young man who works at a bank in Istanbul. The young man, who is struggling with various problems at home and at work, is quite overwhelmed by his life. Looking for a way out to achieve a better life, Hüsnü wants to move up in class and achieve his dreams. One of the things he wants most in life is to own the car he has always wanted. However, the only thing he can do right now is go to the dealership at night and look at the car he wants from afar. He is not the only one who is tired of this life. Hüsnü's wife is also struggling with various problems in her life. The young woman, who is in a troubled marriage with her husband, leaves her home with the support of her neighbor and tries to build a new life for herself. How will the separate paths that this couple, who do not understand each other, have chosen for themselves lead them to their destinations?

Based on a true story, Tosun Firarda is about the biggest scam made in the history of Turkey.

Two exchange students in a coastal Norwegian town decide to hike outside to chase the Northern Lights but soon find out they are not alone under the auroras

It tells the story of 11-year-old Hadim, who secretly wanted to be a hafiz (memoriser) of the Quran in the face of the bans. His he also has hopes and dreams of learning the language of the birds like the Prophet Solomon, whose story is told in the Qur'an.