Tales from Kars

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

An Alevi family masquerading as Sunni tries to establish relations with its Sunni neighbors.

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.

Two soldiers return home from their military service in southeastern Turkey with disabilities.

Three men. From different corners of the crime world: A hired gun, Musta; a con man, Cem; and a thief, Ali. By a twist of fate their paths crosses at Central Station and start to work as a team. But their past won't let them go too faraway...

Ahead of a promotion, a police chief becomes entangled in a deadly incident and uncovers an intrigue fueled by grudge that threatens his colleagues.

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.

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

Fresh out of university, a Turkish young man with literary aspirations returns to his home village and starts scraping together money to publish his book. While trying to reconnect with his old friends and environment; his uncertainty, existential struggle and his father’s gambling addiction bring him grave difficulties.

Ali Osman is a former bully of city of Istanbul. But lately he gives up bully and starts to operate a synthetic pitch. He often meets his old friends, former bullies, too. One day Ali Osman receives a news which is related with his previous passionate life. Then the whole action stats as a chain of events.

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.

Forced to leave the comfort of his middle class lifestyle at his father's behest, fourteen-year-old Ahmet is sent to an all-boys religious dormitory where he must navigate familial expectations, his religious obligations, and the childhood to which he so desperately clings.

Ali, a young photographer who lives with his family, finds himself in an unusual and sad story in Bosnia and Herzegovina after a genetic disorder. Having never visited Bosnia, he will look for the traces of his own past. Hana, who lives in Bosnia, will not leave him travel alone on this journey.

The story of a group of former activist friends who came together after September 12 and questioned the past.

A young actor's perfect life takes a madcap turn when she agrees to star in a commercial — and suddenly gets transported to her character's world.

The days when Istanbul was occupied as a result of the Armistice of Mudros after the First World War and the Fenerbahce football team won the "Harington Cup".

1960s Turkey countryside. A newly assigned teacher finds out that the solitary village is missing a school. He gets fond of the village people and especially a disabled man. The teacher helps the village to build a new school and educate the children and the disabled man.

A supernatural encounter burdens the recently retired Mr. Melih with an existential awakening. Soon he, his wife, and their daughter are all haunted by the "ghosts" of lost opportunities, abandoned dreams, and alternate possibilities -- literally...

Gökhan is a journalist. He's on the road, driving from Istanbul to Southwestern Anatolia in order to make a good story for his newspaper. His car breaks down in a wilderness. What's more, his phone runs out of battery. Gökhan waits for help for hours but nobody shows up. After a while, a walking man appears out of nowhere.

The story takes place in the small town of Hakkari in Turkey at the beginning of the '70s. The time has come to bring technology to that small town. The first Television (called Visiontele by the citizens) arrives and the chaos begins.

Ahmet Celal, who was injured during the war, is in great pain and a young woman named Emine helps him and saves him and heals him. A stormy love breaks out in those scenes and the intrigued life of that love is worked out.

During a turbulent period in the ‘80s, love blossoms between a young man and a woman residing at a mental health rehabilitation center in Turkey.

Kapan tells the story of a wealthy man and his family. Süleyman, one of Antalya's wealthiest men, is very devoted to his children. Their lives are turned upside down by the psychological trauma he experiences following the tragic death of his son Tarık's girlfriend. Without informing his family, Süleyman organizes a competition themed "Truth or Dare," with a prize of 100 million dollars but with death as the consequence. In this competition, there is no other way out but to be honest. Aslı, who learns about the competition her father has organized, will uncover the truth and confront her father.

A secret murder plot at a forest cabin collapses as greed, uninvited guests and the mafia turn the night into a fight for survival.

Cemil is a feisty young man from Trabzon who played for Trabzonspor in the mid-1990s. He transferred to Beşiktaş during the same period and changed greatly in character after moving to Istanbul. During a Beşiktaş-Trabzonspor match, he scored three goals against his former team, Trabzonspor, and then did three somersaults, earning him the nickname "Somersaulting Cemil" and turning all his old friends and fellow Trabzon natives against him. He left his fiancée Zeynep and settled in Istanbul, never returning to his hometown for 20 years. Now in his 40s, Cemil is forced to return to Trabzon when he hears that his father has had a heart attack. However, he is too late—his father has already passed away. He wants to return to Istanbul immediately after the funeral, but he is forced to change his mind after hearing the words of his closest friend, Kemal.

The life of a young computer systems analyst is thrown into turmoil after arriving in Istanbul to start a new job. She soon finds her passport missing, her credit cards useless, her bank account empty and her identity stolen. As the story progresses we find people and events may not be what they seem.

Samet, who works as a bouncer in a bar, left home after his father abandoned the family years ago. His mother started living with his brother Emre. After a long time, Samet returns home and tells his brother Emre that he has found their father’s whereabouts and suggests they go together to where their father lives. The two brothers embark on a journey to Konya to confront their past. The other protagonist of the story, Ayşe, leads an ordinary life with her banker husband and seven-year-old daughter Ceren. When her daughter starts school, her encounter with the school’s security guard changes their lives. A secret relationship begins between the two. While Ayşe continues this relationship without fear of being caught, things eventually change. The paths of the two protagonists, Samet and Ayşe, will intersect in an unexpected way.

A naive apolitical young man, who is interrupted by a fundamental religious environment, turns bitter.

Bekir loves Uğur, who loves Zagor, who is about to get out of jail. An already tense love triangle is thrown into turmoil on a hot summer night, when Zagor kills someone, and Uğur disappears.

Planning to take any job she can get in order to save enough money and leave Turkey for the U.S., Mina is hired at an Istanbul café as a fortune teller who reads the dregs in coffee cups. She discovers she has the ability to offer comfort and insight to the customers who are just as lost in the wilderness as she is.

A few months before the 1980 coup in Ankara, after posting illegal flyers, Faruk returns home injured as knocks at the door and tension close in on the family.

Sent to prison along with his mother after her drug conviction, a young boy develops a warm, tender relationship with a political prisoner.

Recep, a retired soldier, is left alone after losing his wife. He lives a routine life every day. She cannot get along with her upper neighbor Nilgün, who is a prostitute. He tries to kick Nilgün out of the apartment because he is the manager. One day, his grandson Ali comes to stay for a while. He advises Ali to stay away from Nilgün.

Sibling visit their father who is in edge of death and face what they have done in past.

A massive explosion rips though a busy street in Istanbul, Turkey. 95 people are dead; 30 Americans and 5 British. The massacre sends shock waves from Turkey to London and Washington, DC. A new terrorist organization is behind the attack. The explosion is just the beginning. Labyrinth' is the code name of the operation conducted by Turkish intelligence to stop a second, more devastating attack that will plunge Turkey, the only democratic Muslim country in the region, into chaos and destroy the fragile balance of the Middle East. After the initial attack, Turkey becomes a battlefront for terrorists and Turkish, British and American intelligence officers. Everyone has his own agenda in the fight that stretches from Istanbul to Eastern Turkey and from Frankfurt to Northern Iraq.

The film is set in present-day Istanbul. Selim is a shop owner in his early forties. He sells clothing for men in his shop situated in one of the back streets of Istanbul. Selim is a family man who has devoted his life to his home and his work. He lives with his wife Ayla, his six-year-old daughter Esma and his old father in a simple flat in and old, modest neighbourhood. He has warm relations with his family. He is an affectionate father. One of his neighbours, a young widow named Nihal tries to seduce Selim, but her flirtation leaves him cold. Selim is known for his honesty and integrity among his family and friends. He is a careful spender. As a little child, he has learned that money is not easily earned. He has no tolerance for petty "trickery" met in daily life. One day, Selim finds a bag full of dollar bills (approximately 500,000$) in a cab. From that day on, Selim finds himself in a bewildered state with a bag full of money on his hands.

The story of two couples, Ayla and Yadigar and Seher and Hüseyin, who know each other on a journey through the secret history of nudity. This journey begins with two women starting nude modeling in an art academy, beyond the husbands' knowledge. But it doesn't take them long to find it out.

The movie Saskin (Silly) is about a young guy Mehmet, who falls in love with a girl who happens to comment about perfect love on a radio show and follows her to a holiday resort where she possibly work.

Ozan, who is studying at the university, goes to his village after the death of his grandmother. In the village, he learns a lot about the past of his father, whom he is angry with. But he also chooses to run away from reality.

A young man born into an oligarch family is so spoiled that he believes he's above the law. When he faces jail, his father decides to 'rehabilitate' his son. An abandoned village is reconstructed, 19th century style. The spoiled brat 'goes back in time', reincarnated as a serf, to learn how to appreciate life and to work hard.

After his father’s death, poor Berhudar is left dealing with his father’s huge debt to the mob. In one of his many attempts to find a way out of his problem, he meets Ezel. He hopes she will help him get out of the mess he is in. Little does he know the she’s dealing with a very similar trouble...

A foul-mouthed cat and its gang cross paths with humans.

Gurbuz, a crook in Istanbul's Balat district attempts to defraud a mob leader nicknamed Yellow Kenan and his men and gets killed. But he’s going to be resurrected like Frankenstein, one of the most popular horror figures in horror movies.

Sedat and Fikret, childhood friends, are devoted to the Kadırga Sports Club. The Kadırga Sports Club, a poor club, wants to transfer a footballer named Hakan as a savior. Tevfik Amca, a former member of the club, donates his car for the transfer, but time is needed to sell the car, and the transfer date is approaching, so the sale cannot be delayed. In this situation, Sedat asks for the money from Reşat, the brother of his ex-girlfriend Nazlı. Sedat receives the money in exchange for a promissory note, but during this time, an unexpected situation arises, and he is forced to confront many people.

Şale Apartment is a building that houses all kinds of people. There is a doorman loved by everyone, a couple with a happy marriage, an elderly lady who is loved by the neighborhood cats, and curious neighbors... One day, a young woman is taken to the hospital, and then another woman moves in, causing a stir in the building. The new neighbor is a young woman from a shelter. The woman, who has a troubled past, starts a new chapter in her life with her new boyfriend. In her new world, she feels safer than ever before. But is she truly safe? Having moved into Şale Apartment and brought many people into her life, whom should the woman truly trust?

A documentary about the filming session of the film “The Wild Pear Tree” by Nuri Bilge Ceylan… ‘The Wild Pear Tree’ had been shot in about 14 weeks in Western Anatolia.