Cycle

Sine is a young female architect who, inspired by the legend of the Seven Sleepers, has designed a unique mosque in the shape of a cave. She is dissatisfied with the current state of architectural practice. However, the construction of the mosque she designed is left unfinished due to various problems. Sine develops insomnia as a result of stress and begins treatment at a sleep disorder center. One day, while sleeping at the center, she has a dream. In this dream, she finds herself within the myth of the Seven Sleepers and witnesses the events unfolding. Upon waking from the dream, she has undergone physical and mental changes, but no one around her notices these transformations. Every time Sine visits the sleep center, she undergoes physical and mental changes. With each transformation, she begins to react differently to everything compared to before.

In New York City, six-year-old Maisie is caught in the middle of a bitter custody battle between her self-absorbed parents—an aging rock singer mother and a distracted art dealer father. As both quickly marry new partners to strengthen their legal standing, Maisie is shuttled back and forth in an endless game of emotional point-scoring. Yet amid the chaos and upheaval, Maisie begins to find true comfort and affection in her new step-parents.

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.

After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and proud young Salomé comes before her king with an unreasonable demand. Beguiled by John the Baptist, and then scorned for the sake of his god, lascivious Salomé—encouraged by her mother, the vindictive, Herodias—commands that John be executed and his head delivered on a silver platter.

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.

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.

When a 17-year old aspiring dancer is uprooted in her high school senior year, she finds herself divided between two boys, and she will have one last shot at making her dream a reality.

A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.

25-year-old Sibel lives with her father and sister in a secluded village in the mountains of Turkey’s Black Sea region. Sibel is a mute, but she communicates by using the ancestral whistled language of the area.

A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.