A triangle of love, death and separation. Eda and Sarp rent an Airbnb before a long separation. They walk into the house to find the housekeeper, Can, lying on the floor having tried to kill himself. And they save his life. But something more important needs rescuing: their relationship… With the help of wine and weed, the three talk, become closer and start playing a guessing game. But after a while Can crosses a line, despite being consistently right in his guesses.
A solitary scholar discovers an ancient bottle while on a trip to Istanbul and unleashes a djinn who offers her three wishes. Filled with reluctance, she is unable to come up with one, so the djinn tries to inspire her with his stories.
Two historical incidents that deepened the friendship between Japan and Turkey are connected in this story of friendship and compassion: In the night of 16 September 1890 the Turkish frigate Ertuğrul is caught up in a typhoon and sinks off the Japanese coast. Risking their own lives, local villagers are able to rescue 69 Turkish sailors. Although being very poor and having hardly to eat, the villagers share what little they have with strangers from a country 9,000 kilometers away. 95 years later, during the Iran-Iraq War, more than 300 Japanese are stranded in Tehran. In the morning of 19 March 1985 a Turkish Airlines aircraft takes off for Tehran to evacuate the Japanese. But the remaining Turks at Tehran Mehrabad Airport still need to be convinced that they won't be able to board their own country's rescue flight.
A stagnant and gloomy village in the 1980s. Reyhan, Nurhan, and Havva, three sisters were sent to town as 'besleme' (foster child and maid). Since they fail their foster parents for different reasons, they are sent back to their father's house in their poor village. Deprived of their dreams of a better life, they try to hold on to each other.
The film begins with the arrival of a baby whose name was Muzaffer placed in a world where markets, schools, houses, people ... everything is so familiar and so strange. What distinguishes him from others in the world of the story is his curiosity. What will happen if he leaves the stone that everyone has been carrying all his life out of his hands?
Year 2000, Samsun... Uğur takes a minibus home. When he shudders, there’s a flash-back with his daughter Berrak’s voice with song of the eighties playing on the radio. Uğur, now working as a machinist in Sivas in 1980 tells his wife Handan that he got a promotion and was assigned to Divriği which meant they had to move again. However, they got a lodging and that’s a good news. Her neighbors mention about Alawite people living in Divriği and this makes Handan worried. After they arrive to Divriği, they can’t find a place to live since the lodging was still occupied. They begin to live in the reserve railway car. Handan is in poor spirits because of their Alawite neighbors, dangers caused by the railroad and not to be able to move to the lodging. After months of waiting, they finally move but the new developments would take them to a different point in their life.
Müzeyyen is a 22-year-old high school senior living in Antalya who spends most of her time with a posse of misfits. She lives a drug-fuelled, highly troubled life outside the norms of society. When her long-lost brother Ali decides to visit her during winter break, everyone's life is tested, each with different consequences.
Zübeyde, Mothers and Sons, tells the life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's mother, Zübeyde Hanim, which begins in Thessaloniki, in the last periods of the Ottoman Empire, and reflects the period until the declaration of the Republic.
Deniz ends up in hospital and has to face the ghosts of past. She manages to discover herself and the hidden secrets in her family drawers.
A woman tries to save her marriage and win her husband back whilst trying to solve her mental problems. Yonca, who is passionately attached to her husband, does everything for the sake of saving her relationship.
Married under the shadow and guidance of a religious cult, Ercan and Nesrin discover both love and the lies enveloping their lives as they get to know one another. However, the truth they reach brings an irreversible, tragic reckoning rather than healing their relationship.
A none dialogue film about a young woman called Sukran, who has an accident when she is 10 years old and stays crippled for the rest of her life. Throughout the film, she seeks to create a common ground with other people. Despite her hunger to do so, she fails with people of the opposite sex, and so turns to her own gender. Again, she meets with failure; and again, she is knocked sideways. Just like all of us, Şükran keeps looking helplessly for ways to communicate with other people until the bitter end. Her helplessness may not be the exact same to our own helplessness as spectators, but they are indeed in very close proximity.
Veteran math teacher Hilmi is preparing the earthquake survivor Ela for her college applications and is mentoring Ali, the doorman's son, who flunked for the second time at school. As they seek refuge from loneliness in each other, they slowly find themselves in an uncanny triangle, where all boundaries dissolve.
Asli, a young mother who is trying to find a nanny to get back to work, finally meets young Gulnihal. Gulnihal is also a mother. With Gulnihal coming into her life, Asli faces her secrets which she has been avoiding herself.
Yılmaz is the dealer and close friends of famous filmmakers and actors. With the increasing drug operations in Istanbul, Yılmaz is getting paranoid about not being loved by them anymore. This paranoia makes him take bigger risks day by day and he will be destroyed by the desire for being loved.
One night, a law student wakes up from his sleep on a bus ride and strikes up a conversation with the bus driver.
A young girl working in a textile workshop is desperately trying to save money to make her father quit his job and find an apartment together with her. But her father does not seem to be the person she wants him to be.
A young art teacher hopes to be transferred to Istanbul after completing his mandatory duty in a remote village school in Anatolia. After accusations of inappropriate contact with a student surface, his hopes of escape fade and he descends further into an existential crisis.
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With the hope that the pandemic is coming to an end, Didem has been preparing for a New Year’s Eve celebration for over a month. All her loved ones can finally get together and make up for the lost time, but the lockdown announcement has her plans blown off course. Ozan is determined to let his wife have the celebration she deserves. He invites their neighbors to the party, and the fun begins.
It recounts the absurd and comical events that unfold when an amateur music band, setting out with the intention of performing a concert in Alaçatı, loses their way and accidentally arrives at an American missile base in Syria.
Hüseyin is a young man who lives with his grandfather and grandmother in a village in Thracian Turkey. The two great loves of his life are his clarinet and Müjgan, a nurse. Although Hüseyin is content with his life, with his music and dreams of Mügan, due to an unexpected development he leaves his village. He ends up in Istanbul where he finds support first in his clarinet and then in the friendship of the singer Firuzan. Firuzan is a popular nightclub performer who is eagerly working on an album as she leads a colorful but complicated life. When Firuzan meets Huseyin, the course of events gives away to a hilarious adventure.
Veteran homicide cop Fermanand his hot-headed partner İdris team up with rookie cop and anthropology major Hasan to investigate the murder of a young woman. The suspects include her conservative family, who might have killed her for honor, her drug-dealing boyfriend and aged billionaire Battal who had taken the victim as his second wife.
Cemil, a wannabe actor auditions for the villain role in a film. He can't get the role but the role gets him.
Mukhtar Yusuf Ağa’s unregistered village in eastern Anatolia has been championed through letters to government officials, and his lost son İbrahim, rescued and registered by Father Hana, is finally returning at age 30 with his American love Jessica; the question is whether Tinne can become their true homeland.
An ever-crying woman who lost her husband; A mismatched couple preparing for their wedding night; A video artist hearing a confession about 20,000 euros after wrestling with his girlfriend in bed. People celebrating the deceased’s birthday.
A famous comedian makes a confession to a closeted stranger, two bickering parents come home to a surprising discovery, and an art gallery attendant gets a short glimpse into the life of a young woman she once briefly knew. Enter a new world with six enlightening tales of private revelations, lingering secrets and those fleeting moments where the burdens of everyday life are temporarily lifted.
Recep Bozgöz's second short film.
