Our Grand Despair

Having lost her mother in the 1999 earthquake, Bilge and her family go on a vacation to the south. On the way to their rented house, she sees a series of visions. Things get worse when a small earthquake occurs, bringing back memories of her loss and releasing her inner demons.

A barber working in Istanbul longs to be ‘both here and far, far away’. One day, he takes the day off and disappears abruptly without warning anyone. He then settles in a far-flung village. Some mysterious events start happening in the village as people disappear one by one.

Separated from his daughter, a father with an intellectual disability must prove his innocence when he is jailed for the death of a commander's child.

Kurdish composer Boran is no longer able to see the ocean, obstructed by a new building, and a tragedy befalls him…

When Cem finds himself at the brink of losing the love of his life, Alara, he embarks on an expedition to the Blue Cave, Alara's most beloved archeological site, to feel close to her again.

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.

Fatih and Kumru, a lawyer from different cities, team up for a case involving a cheating spouse. They spend 8 hours racing around Izmir gathering evidence, unexpectedly altering their plans and lives.

When four estranged siblings reunite in their remote Anatolian village for their sister’s wedding, long-buried memories begin to resurface. As the celebrations unfold, two of them are drawn back into the unbreakable bond they once shared. Family secrets slowly come to light, leading them on a journey through grief and the invisible ties between generations.

Nuri is a violinist who only plays farewell songs for the suicides, this is how he makes a living. He enters many lives, says a proper goodbye without interference and gets out. This has worked perfectly until he meets Azat.

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.

Emre, who lives a happy life with his family in a charming town, will be forced to move and lose his friends and school due to his father's business going downhill. An amazing team will come together for Emre and save his friends by turning his father's restaurant into the most famous restaurant in Turkey. Of course, the real battle will be against the school's notorious gang, who constantly cause trouble. Adapted from the book "Child's Heart."

Ishak, a wandering musician from a small mountain town. A lynching he was a part of 7 years ago comes back to haunt him as he returns to his town to say farewell to his dying mother. Facing the other five perpetrators--his childhood friends—as well as the community and government officials supporting them, Ishak struggles with the guilt weighing upon him. However, the bigger the crime is, the stronger the silence gets since everyone has blood on their hands.

A group of men set out in search of a dead body in the Anatolian steppes

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.

A Turkish-Jewish family faces a series of dilemmas on the morning of Susam’s Bar-mitzvah ceremony with the limitations of Shabbat day rules when Susam locks himself in his room and does not get out for his ceremony.

The human tragedy and the suffering of the Crimean Turks who were taken hostage as prisoners of war in German prison camps during World War II.

The heartfelt story of Ali and Vahap, whose lives intersect in a remote village in Anatolia. After losing his parents, Ali comes from the big city to his grandfather's village, where he meets Vahap, the village's mischievous child. The story recounts how these two, who were once enemies, eventually form a friendship. Ali's unfinished reading of 'Moby Dick' becomes their shared passion. However, finding and reading the book is far from easy…

Hızır loses his wife Halime, who has been in intensive care for a long time. Her daughter, Hatice, learns from the nurse Evren, who had been devotedly helping her ailing mother, that he caused her mother’s death. Hatice tries to be compassionate to her father, who comes to her house. She refrains from revealing the truth to him, but after a while, she can’t keep this secret anymore and shares it with her sister, Kader. While thinking that they should tell Evren’s confession to their father, Kader thinks they should go to the police. Kader’s persistence on her sister creates an existential problem for Hatice, who is crushed under the weight of Evren’s confession. All family members have to face the truth at a family dinner.

After an existential encounter with his neighbor, Ekrem rethinks his morning routine – cutting off the second head which grows from his neck every night.

In a small Turkish town, two young tuberculous poets try to survive while publishing their poems. As they both fall in love, their life would never be the same.

In the hard-boiled world, where will the soft-shelled end up? A cozy kind of extermination is on the stage and keeping a low profile. The decadence around us is nothing less than clandestine annihilation of the civil man. Yet it is carried out so well with a grinning face, it is officially sold as transition. Now that the tamed indulgent is striped off social justice, welfare, even denied the tender love of concentration camps and slavery plantations of past centuries. At least hand them a round of rope They have high expectations from taking things in their own hands. Circle is a peculiar story of an ordinary man caught between an untimely romance and a brave new hostile world.

For the terminally ill Izzet, time is nearly up. Doctors have given up, prayers and rituals offer little help, and his family's future is now in God's hands. So Izzet spends his time in virtual reality, roaming through the astonishing and otherworldly places of the virtual cosmos. He even meets his girlfriend there…

Ten years after being thrown out of her parental home, Nur hears that her mother is at death's door. Taking her young daughter with her, Nur hurries back to her father's world to see, and reconcile with her mother before it is too late. While the universal theme of mother-daughter relationships lies at the centre of the film, this is underpinned by an allusive subtext of incest, one of most common but least addressed social problems in Turkey. The individual stories of the family members combine with a sense of hope fuelled by tragedy to paint a portrait of the socially disconnected.

A biopic focusing on to the childhood and the early years of the military career of the founder and the first President of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

In a small village, young Mert is about to get traditionally circumcised, but the family does not have the money to follow up with the circumcision celebration. The family wants to be able to serve lamb meat to the guests at the celebration. Mert’s older sister scares him that if they cannot afford a lamb the father will slaughter him instead.

Lola is part of “The Migrant Workers”, a Turkish drag queen troupe who perform to great acclaim. Lola’s gay little brother Murat, on the other hand, is just beginning his search for an identity. An intense family drama set in “Anatolian” Berlin-Kreuzberg.

Meet Vartanus who has devoted her life to her bedridden father; Goncagul who realizes that her Mafioso lover will never marry her. Gulnur who's resigned herself to daily beatings as long as her husband doesn't touch the kids, Tulay who's shattered every time her mother gets beaten; hairdresser Fusun who tends to see things on the bright side. These are the women who transport Eylem, each other and perhaps every woman in the country to Last Stop: Kurtulus. The heroines adopt one unwavering principle: to oppose all forms of violence! A dark comedy that's rose-tinted, provocative and fantastic...

In a small, poor village leaning over high rocky mountains, the villagers are simple and diligent people who struggle to cope with a harsh nature. They earn their living off the earth and a few animals they feed. Fathers always prefer one of their sons. Mothers command their daughters ruthlessly. Ömer, the son of the imam, wishes hopelessly for the death of his father. When he understands that wishful thinking does not have any concrete results, he begins to search for childish ways to kill his father. Yakup is in love with his teacher, and one day after seeing his father spying on the teacher he dreams too, like Ömer, of killing his father. Yıldız studies and tries to manage the household chores imposed by her mother. She learns with irritation about the secrets of the relationship between men and women.

When her husband Cemal is arrested in Romania, Emine is left alone with their child who needs immediate surgery.

Eyüp works relentlessly under the blazing sun during a tomato harvest in southeastern Turkey, driven by the urgent need to settle an impending debt. After a clash with his supervisor, he roams the city in search of a radical solution.

A good husband and father of a 12-year-old girl, works as a driver for a wealthy family. Despite his seemingly peaceful nature, he too is capable of the most abject violence.

Several directors from countries of the region were invited to create stories taking place in and around the beautiful city of Istanbul, in the vein of “Paris, je t’aime” and “New York, I love you”. They come together to remind viewers that Istanbul’s history does not belong only to the people of Turkey.

The story of 3 different generations living in the same city. Alper, his best friend Soner and his long-time girlfriend Hazan are studying at the same university. Lately the relation between Hazan and Alper do not go well. Soner supports them for the recovery of the relationship. Hakan, Barker and Serhat who are their twenties live in another district of the same city. They plan a vacation at a resort. They steal money and the car of their parents. Another generation living in this city are 12-year-old friends Mutafa and Emre. Their dream is to make programs at a radio. These three lives knotted together at some point at an unexpected time.

Can and his girlfriend, Jale, live with their young daughter, Meral, in a tough Turkish neighbourhood of Berlin and barely manage to scrape enough money together for their existence. Can is a small-time dealer and errand-boy for drug boss Hakan, who has to keep his customers supplied within his narrowly staked out territory. Jale, who works in the ware-house of a department store, has been pressing Can to give up this activity. Can, also fed up with his situation, sees a bright new beginning for himself and his family when Hakan offers him the prospective chance to run a bar on his very own. But Can has little control over the pressures that gradually begin to build up around him and soon finds himself floundering in quicksand.

The relationship between Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the great German writer, and Christiane Vulpius, a village girl, is one of the instantaneous and fiery passion. They lived together for 28 years, 18 of these living in sin, 10 a married couple. Christiane's rival, Charlotte von Stein, a former favorite of Goethe, begins plotting and scheming against her. Christiane puts up with countless insults and humiliations like having to 'disappear' with their son into the servants' quarters and to stay at home on official occasions. Goethe marries her when she saves his life during an attack by plundering Napoleonic soldiers. Her new social position as Goethe's wife is resented and envied by all. When she is openly attacked by the snooty, jealous people, Goethe is only half-hearted in coming to her defence. But she stays with him for he is her great love, even when she turns to the charms of many youthful admirers...

Bora is a street musician. Every evening, he plays his guitar in different parts of Istanbul, trying to earn enough money to get through the night. One evening, as he is returning home after playing his music, his path crosses with Ilgaz. Ilgaz has filed for divorce from her husband Teoman, who is slightly older than her. Teoman is part of the underworld. He never wanted Ilgaz to divorce him.

A meatball seller gets into trouble so flees Istanbul to find a new life on a beautiful island.

Anıl has been used by women up until now. He is very naive, so his closest friend from school, Korkmaz, is trying to find a solution. Korkmaz, who no longer wants Anıl to be used, wants to bring Anıl and Selen, Melis's friend, together. Melis and Selen met at dance school. As things progress, Anıl surprises her with a big surprise, and they get married. However, when Anıl discovers Selen's lie, everything is turned upside down for him.

A big-budget epic follows a man facing financial abuse who must overcome his struggles before he can tackle bigger challenges. His destiny hangs in the balance.

Sparks fly when a humble housekeeper crosses paths with a wealthy surgeon, but a devastating truth puts their relationship to the test.

Çınar, who lives in Istanbul, dreams of participating in a music competition. However, his plans are disrupted by his father's decision to return to the village. Çınar and his ultra-intelligent sister Zeynep find themselves in hilarious situations as they try to adapt to village life. Eventually, the friends they make far from the city will show them the importance of friendship. Will Çınar and Zeynep be able to adjust to village life? And will they be able to defeat the city dwellers in the music competition with their new friends and achieve their dreams?

Three years in the life of the female Danish imam and feminist Sherin Khankan's life, through ups and downs.

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