A Strange Man

Days before Eid, a salesman fired from his job drives to meet his girlfriend's family, but the trip goes astray due to his zany travel buddy.

A wealthy man, paralysed after an accident, hires a caregiver from a completely different background. The unlikely relationship between these two opposite characters soon transforms into an extraordinary and powerful friendship that changes both of their lives.

When a family man suffers brain death, his extended family gathers around him as he is about to be taken off life support, and make plans to divide up his money.

Bahri and Merve, who live in the same town, have been in love with each other since childhood. The young couple, who grew up together, now want to crown their relationship with marriage. Their goal is to get married and settle in Istanbul to live the life they have been dreaming of for years. However, there is a major obstacle standing in the way of their marriage.

A family with diversified members travels to İstanbul from Yozgat after their youngest son fell in love with a girl.

When three adult siblings meet the offbeat man who their widowed mom fawns over, they take drastic actions to stop them from ever getting married.

Yılmaz Erdoğan's lauded stage play traces the life of wunderkind Gülseren as she navigates social and political change.

A comedy that intertwines hilarious and extraordinary situations, particularly amusing in certain parts, and worth watching.

Eyeing another shot at soccer club presidency, Ahmet draws up a plan that mires him in complicated nuptial agreements and a clumsy kidnapping scheme.

Written by Yılmaz Erdoğan and first staged at the Beşiktaş Cultural Center (BKM) in 1995, Otogargara ran for four seasons to sold-out audiences. The play was also performed 468 times in many provinces and districts of Anatolia between 1995 and 1999, in addition to Ankara and İzmir. During its run at BKM, Otogargara was directed by Turgay Kantürk and featured Yılmaz Erdoğan, Demet Akbağ, Sinan Bengier, Olgun Şimşek, Zerrin Sümer, Erdoğan Dikmen, Gürdal Tosun, Evrim Solmaz, and Serhat Özcan, along with 22 other actors and dancers. It was the first play produced by BKM.

Orhan works for a private import-export company and is single. His partner Kadir is married and has two children. Orhan is framed for Kadir's murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. Unable to remember anything about the incident, Orhan finds himself facing death when he meets Nil by chance. Nil is single and works at an acting agency. She is a woman eager to become famous, but due to the jobs she has taken, she has not been able to achieve fame. On the day he meets Nil, Orhan escapes from prison, but he finds himself in even greater trouble. This time, he has a woman by his side, and he begins to slowly remember the events and realize that he is innocent. Finding himself caught in a web of lies, Orhan will encounter intriguing events as he tries to prove his innocence. With each step he takes toward the truth, he will realize the extent of the game he is caught in.

The most distinctive feature of this Ferhan Şensoy play, which is performed in a much sharper language than what today's stand-up comedians describe as an interactive game, is that it takes place inside a ship...

Ferhan Şensoy and his team perform their play, which takes place inside a ship, from inside the same ship for their audience. Ferhan Şensoy, a true wordsmith, plays the captain, and the ship's crew returns from a long voyage and sets sail for Turkey. When they see the state of the country, they decide to turn back, saying, "Take it, it's yours." Deeply troubled by the public's tendency to accept every new crisis as normal, Şensoy remarks, "In another country, the people would rise up and protest, but here, such things do not occur," and in his "Audience Logbook," he critiques the nation's issues using the vernacular of the people.

From the heavens, meteors shower upon a humble Anatolian village. In this celestial display, a simple-minded peasant unexpectedly finds the largest of these stones, now sought after for substantial sums. An unimaginable opportunity graces him —a man with nothing to lose yet lacking nothing. Carried away with invasive dreams, the Americans +10$ promise haunts him. His journey to sell this precious object at a higher rate propels him into a realm of power and greed, exposing him to deprivation of things he never harbored. As he keeps wanting a little more, he starts to lose what he already has.

Mahsun Supertitiz is an unemployed homeless man who steals cars at night so that he can sleep in a heated place during the winter. Mahsun lives in Rumelihisar, an old section of Istanbul, and makes ends meet by getting the local fishermen to help him. Mahsun loves the cars he robs, cleans and polishes them, and drives them through the streets of Rumelihisar during the daytime.

A squad of unsuspecting cops go through a trapdoor to Hell when they stumble upon a Black Mass in an abandoned building.

Three people from three different worlds... Three Others who become the unwitting cause of each others suffering...Three ordinary lives so tormented that even death seems sweet... Can emotional pain be vanquished through physical pain?

During the civil war in Turkey, many people were assassinated or disappeared while in custody. Mothers and families of the ones who disappeared in custody have held a demonstration every Saturday for the last 15 years. These mothers are called the Saturday mothers. The project tells the story of the encounter between an ex-soldier and a mother who's son disappeared in custody.

An ex-army captain travels to Dalyan to stop his friend's beloved from marrying another man, but grief and trauma from a combat tragedy mar his journey.

A small task force of the Turkish army have to defend a relay station in the middle of nowhere against a possible terrorist raid.

It is the beginning of the 17th century. As the prince, who is certain to become sultan in the future, sets out for the province of Saruhan, a murder is committed in Saruhan. Yusuf, the son of Salih Ağa, one of Saruhan's important figures, is killed in an inn. The judge of Saruhan assigns Selim, a clerk he knows from Istanbul, to solve this murder. Selim's appointment to this task, which led to the execution of the Janissary commander Bekir in Istanbul, does not please the Janissary commander Arif, but he does not have the power to prevent it. On the other hand, the prince and Deli İzzet Pasha, who accompanied him, must solve the murder before arriving in Saruhan.

Inhospitable at the best of times, the snow-covered mountainscapes of Eastern Anatolia constituted a fatal frontier for many war exiles after the battle of Sarikamish in 1915, and provides a canvas laced with beauty and threat for this bone-chilling survival yarn, the superb debut feature of Alphan Eşeli. Starting out with three characters – a refugee mother and daughter and their grizzled guide – the film traces their daunting trek across this barren terrain to safety, with the Russians encroaching and other stragglers, including a pair of wounded, frostbitten Ottoman soldiers, all orbiting the same burnt-out village they find in their path. Puncturing its aura of ghostly impasse with some shocking narrative reversals, and constantly prickling with the mutual dread of strangers in gruelling extremes, the movie stakes out hugely credible ground next to established Eastern Front war classics (In the Fog, Come and See) while remaining thoroughly its own beast. (Source: LFF programme)

Five short films by five directors based on themes of love and tolerance, each independent of the other. Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Efes Pilsen. The collection includes five short films: Ömer Kavur's "The Meeting," İrfan Tözüm's "Monte Cristo," Yusuf Kurçenli's "Because I Love Her," Erden Kıral's "Moon Stories," and Zeki Ökten's "Always the Same."

Çilek's biggest dream is to go to Istanbul and become a famous singer. Kaan, on the other hand, has been secretly watching Çilek for years and wants to declare his love for her. Their paths cross one night at a bar owned by Hayri, Çilek's boyfriend, where she is singing. Kaan promises Çilek that he will help her fulfill her dreams, and Çilek responds by offering him her love. Neither of them can resist this tempting deal. Taking advantage of a time when Hayri is not in town, they set off for Istanbul without looking back, chasing their dreams, but they are drawn into an extraordinary adventure with Hayri and his men, as well as the police, hot on their heels.

Nur is a woman who suffers from bipolar depression with psychosis. While she stays in a mental institution she confronts with her life; her childhood, her parents and her marriage...Can she ever learn to love herself?