King of the Cotton

In the streets of Istanbul, ailing waste warehouse worker Mehmet takes a small boy under his wing and must soon confront his own traumatic childhood.

Two friends originally from Izmir-Eşrefpaşa have settled in Istanbul… While Tayyar (Hüseyin Soysalan) has become a mafia leader based on his passion for power and ruling, Davut (Turgay Tanülkü) has been managing a café in his small neighbourhood. Both have loved the same woman, Madam Eleni (Sermin Hürmeriç). But she had to get married to Tayyar despite her love for Davut. She also had a daughter called Duygu (Deniz Özpınar). However, Tayyar, knowing that Eleni’s heart belongs to Davut, leaves Eleni and his daughter alone. Tayyar, continuously looking for ways for revenge, finally finds it in convincing Nusret (Burak Tarık), Davut’s adopted son, to choose his dirty way. Nusret, the tough-guy of the neighbourhood gets into a big dilemma since he couldn’t make a choice between his girl as well as the people he loves and money and power.

The story of a young couple has changed with a man came to town, who is a part of the town's history.

Orhan who lived in London for years and did not come back to Turkey agrees to help Deniz -a famous director- edit his first book. Deniz has been living in a mansion with his family which started to lose its old brightness and power. Orhan finds himself in the middle of Deniz's complicated relationships, mysterious friends and stange family members. This is the first movie of Ferzan Ozpetek which is shot in Turkey after a long time. It is also based on his own book which has the same name with the movie.

In 1950, amidst the ravages of the Korean War, Sergeant Süleyman stumbles upon a a half-frozen little girl, with no parents and no help in sight and he risks his own life to save her, smuggling her into his army base and out of harm’s way.

The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother putting the shattered pieces of her life back together.

On the eve of the fall of the Ottoman Empire: in the harem of Sultan Abdulhamit II, the odalisque of Italian origin Safiyè dreams of becoming the sultan's first mistress. To achieve her goal, the girl, aided by the eunuch Nadir, is even willing to kill. But when her dream is finally about to come true, her entire world suddenly collapses: the sultan is exiled, the harem is closed, and the odalisques and eunuchs are abandoned to their fate.

In the early 1980s, Abdullah Catli becomes entangled in an international conflict spanning several European countries. As Europe turns into a stage for covert confrontations, Catli is increasingly faced with existential decisions. Caught between loyalty, responsibility, and the protection of his family, an intense drama unfolds about guilt, loss, and survival.

Mother Elif is known to be philanthropic and wise. She shares deep spiritual values such as love, peace, equality, sharing, tolerance, and compassion with all life she comes into contact with. This film shows her eventful life.

Muhammet Arslan is the director of Kanlı Postal, which brings the events that took place in Diyarbakır Prison on September 12 to the big screen. The script, which was written after interviewing prisoners who were subjected to torture during that period, uses the real names of the characters. The film, which focuses on the prisoners tortured by "Captain Esat" while serving at Diyarbakır Prison, stars Mesut Akusta, Turgay Tanülkü, Nevin Efe, and Mihriban Er in the lead roles. Muhammet Arslan, who began filming in 2012, also serves as the screenwriter for the same film.

Francesco and Marta run a husband-and-wife design company in Rome. When Francesco's aunt dies in Istanbul he travels there to sort out the hamam Turkish steam bath that she left him. He finds a love and warmth in his relatives' Istanbul home that is missing from his life in Italy.

A left-wing journalist whose wife died while giving birth to his son during a military coup returns to his family's farm. Estranged from his father for turning his back on the family and wasting his life with political activism instead, he tries to reconnect with him so that his son will have a place to live as his health is deteriorating due to the extensive torture he had to endure.

In the southeast region of Turkey, the Kurdish family of Altun lives in a small mountainside village plagued by a 25-year war that makes their daily lives a hellish struggle. As the war intensifies, the family is forced to migrate west to the city of Istanbul.

On the border of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and the Greek village of Limya lies the frontier hamlet of Akıncılar, where the call to prayer mingles with church bells and Turkish music blends with Greek melodies, and people from Diyarbakır and Cyprus live side by side. In this village there are three children, each thirteen years old, bound together by fate and traveling a shared path. Their story unfolds amid a ritual that becomes ever more tangled: the drama of “child brides.”

When five Kurdish prisoners are granted one week's home leave, they find to their dismay that they face continued oppression outside of prison from their families, the culture, and the government.

A young and successful entrepreneur has difficulty in coming to terms with his religious upbringing. One day he is pushed into substitute for his ailing friend as the Imam of a small village.

Based on a true story set in 1948, customs officer Mehti is faced with the duty of formally setting up the border between Turkey and Syria, dividing his hometown. He is unaware of the pain that will eminently unfold, as families, languages, cultures and lovers are both ripped apart and clash head on in a village once united.

In a place where there is no time, a traveler comes to an unnamed village where we do not know where on the map. The weary traveler is a messenger. They have stories to tell, words to say.

High school student Berk has a protective mother and a father who loves his son but has difficulty showing it. In the evening of a day when natural gas was cut off due to economic difficulties, he goes to the party organized by Mertcan, whom he thinks is his best friend, and where Neslihan, whom he likes, is also expected, but nothing goes as he expected.

Imam Raşit, who has not attended the mosque for many years and has distanced himself from the village people, immediately requests his son Aziz's body to be brought home to be washed upon hearing the news of his death. The villagers know nothing about Aziz’s life or his death; however, the darkening of his body leads them to believe that he was a sinner. Raşit, after hearing these rumors and thoughts, makes a shocking decision, one that will question his sanity, to cleanse his son of his sins.

The friendship of Gokhan and Omer is challenged when Omer falls in love with beautiful Yasemin. Gokhan frames his best friend Omer for a murder, subsequently Omer must leave the country.

Ten years old Cemil runs away from his stepfather who tortures him and his mother and ends up in Istanbul. Veli Firat Tanis, the leader of a gang which Cemil takes refuge in Haydarpasa, tries to send him back to his home by putting his pocket money. While the gang gather money for Cemil, they, at the same time, suffer from harsh living conditions. In the mean time Cemil's mother Münevver comes to Istanbul in the hope of finding her son.

During the Sarikamis Battle, the Ottoman army runs out of ammunition and appeals to the people of Van for help, who happen to have supplies. However, the First World War is on and all men are fighting at four corners of the empire and therefore can not respond to to the appeal. The young children of Van want to do something...

A true story about four close friends in Adapazarı who experienced trauma after the earthquake on August 17, 1999, and their hopes, struggles, and passions for the future. Ertekin Akpınar, director and screenwriter of Angels and Gamblers, describes his film as a harsh rural film.

Yusuf, 19, is a university student who is a bit moody, introverted, unable to find peace in life, and has lost his faith in God due to his questioning nature. Having grown up without seeing his father, he cannot shake off the anger within him. Although his mother tried to raise him with self-sacrifice and without making him feel the absence of his father, this has remained an open wound within Yusuf. Though he believed his father had died when he was young, as he grew older, he began to doubt whether his father was actually alive, and his anger grew within him because his father never once reached out to him... At the same time, he harbors resentment toward his mother for raising him with this lie.

Emine is the daughter of a rich and well-off ağa. Ağa not only did not have a son, but also lost his wife at a young age. He raised his daughter Emine as a baby so that she would not feel orphaned. However, as Emine grew up, she became more and more unruly, stuck-up and disliked by everyone. She would drive away the suitors who came to the house and embarrass her father in front of his guests. Hüseyin Ağa set a condition for his daughter; either he would put someone in front of his daughter that he wanted, or the Ağa would marry her off to someone he deemed suitable. Emine had been waiting for Murat, whom she had been in love with for a long time, to want her. But Murat did not think of getting married, he roamed around like a vagabond all day and enjoyed his day.

Tells the funny events that is experienced 30 years later by a group that became friends in high school in the 1990s.

Kirpi, the vengeful practical joker finally finds a match for his habit: Tahir Yaman. Prank and revenge loop of the duo will drag them to very complicated situations.

The entertaining and comical story of how the heirs living in a luxurious villa end up penniless, miserable, and disgraced.

The story of a serial killer from Thrace. The film begins with two Trakyan farmers named Hayrettin and Hayati waking up one day in the basement of a village house. A voice recording from a serial killer who tells his victims, "You don't play the game this way, you play it that way," begins to subject our heroes to various games. Inspired by the Saw series and serving as a parody of it, the film is a blend of comedy and horror.

Three brothers living in Balat, one of Istanbul's old neighborhoods, each struggling to make ends meet in their own way: Gürkan, who earns a living as a taxi driver; Orhan, who runs a rice shop; and Duran, who is hopelessly in love. While continuing their daily struggles like everyone else and trying to resolve their ordinary problems, the lives of these three brothers are turned upside down by a triangle of murder, mafia, and kidnapping triggered by an accident that befalls them one day.

The medical team that came to the village in the late 1990s placed an intrauterine contraceptive device in all women with at least three children. As the men of the village sit down and ponder what the device worn by the women is, they conclude that the state has wired them through a series of misunderstandings. Until this misunderstanding is cleared up, everything in the village is set to change.

Kulyas: The Price of the Curse tells the story of young people who are faced with the brutality of the Kulyas jinn tribe.

What if a revolution will happen in Turkey? "After Revolution" is discussing ordinary, daily life just after socialist revolution in Turkey.