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Turkish drama films from the 2020s
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Paper Lives
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.
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My Father's Violin
Through their shared grief and connection to music, an orphaned girl bonds with her emotionally aloof, successful violinist uncle.
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About Dry Grasses
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.
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In Your Dreams
You know the feeling. It feels like time slows down as your eyes meet a stranger’s. Then you walk pass each other, neither of you looking back. That’s what happened with Pelin and Engin. Lo and behold, they open their eyes in the same bed.
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Abandoned Man
After serving time in prison for his brother's crime, a man warily reunites with family, finding hope and healing in a life-changing bond with his niece.
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Blue Cave
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.
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Burning Days
With the mayoral election approaching, the newly-appointed state prosecutor of a small town suffering from a water supply crisis gradually descends into trouble after a young local woman is raped.
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Color of Victory
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".
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Brother's Keeper
Yusuf and his best friend Memo are pupils at a boarding school for Kurdish boys, secluded in the mountains of Eastern Anatolia. When Memo falls mysteriously ill, Yusuf is forced to struggle through the bureaucratic obstacles put up by the s
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Yellow Letters
The marriage of Derya and Aziz is under pressure after losing their jobs because of state arbitrariness and moving to Istanbul to live with Aziz's parents. They and their 13-year-old daughter Ezgi have to redefine their way of life.
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Love in 39 Degrees
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.
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In Good Hands 2
A newly reunited father and son grapple with new beginnings after tragedy, but can they manage to fill the void left by a beloved wife and mother?
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Life
Hicran runs away from home when she is forced into an engagement with Rıza by her father. Rıza, who thinks that Hicran doesn't want to be with him, doesn't care at first. But when it begins to bother him, he decides to confront the situatio
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10 Days of a Good Man
A lawyer turned private investigator takes on a missing person case, propelling him on an unexpected and life-altering quest.
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Intoxicated by Love
Story of Rumi, his friendship with Shams Tabrizi, the love he had for him and the great influence of Shams over him in his life, his poetry and his love for God.
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Lefter: The Story of the Ordinarius
A football prodigy rises to fame, battling prejudice and inner turmoil on his quest for greatness. Based on the life of Turkish legend, Lefter.
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Snow and the Bear
A young nurse starts a new assignment in a small isolated village in the farthest reaches of Turkey, a place that seems asleep in an endless winter. A thick layer of snow covers the souls as well as the lands. But under the snow, unspeakable secrets hibernate.
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Commitment Hasan
Making his living from gardening and farming in the land he inherited from his father, Hasan tries to get rid of the power pole that is going to be installed in the midst of his land. His impending voyage to Mecca for pilgrimage leads to soul searching into his past.
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Murat Göğebakan: Kalbim Yaralı
Turkish singer Murat Göğebakan embarks on a successful musical career, until he receives a terminal cancer diagnosis.
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Anatolian Leopard
At Turkey’s oldest zoo, a lonely manager and a neglected female officer form an unlikely bond: as they hide the death of the zoo’s oldest inhabitant, an Anatolian leopard, in order to stop the privatization process and fake its escape, they set in motion an absurd charade that spins out of control. In Turkey’s grey and quiet capital, the ghost of the leopard persists.
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RSVP (Please Respond)
One hour before their wedding, Ceren and Semih, who make their final preparations at the hotel where the ceremony will be held, are forced to question their happiest days when their close friend Mert begins to reveal the secrets of the past.
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Heartsong
While serenading a wedding that quickly implodes, a nomadic musician falls for the bride, who runs afoul of her family. Now he has to save her life.
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Forgiveness
An authoritarian father, who makes his living in a mountain village with tree trade, has a deeper problem with his family due to his oppressive and unjust behavior. The way out of this psychological crisis that the family is in depends on the ability of family members to forgive each other.
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Between Two Dawns
After a worker is severely injured in their family business, Kadir is forced into making a moral decision, which will have an impact on his dreams, his family, and the life of injured worker’s wife
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Art of Love
After learning that the art thief she has been chasing is her ex-lover, an officer working for Interpol concocts a plan to catch him red-handed.
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10 Days of a Bad Man
Battered, broken and bereaved, a private investigator must muscle his way through a tangle of lies to uncover the truth behind a mansion murder.
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Guilt
Reyhan, raised in a religious family, arrives to spend her summer holidays at her grandmother Ummu's house in a conservative central Anatolian village, accompanied by her mother Hatice, and her 6 year old brother Mehmet. The 13 year old is gripped by a state of inner turmoil. She has just had her first period and dreads the consequences of being unable to perform the required religious rites. Reyhan's concerns mount after she finds out the water supply at her grandmother's village house is cut off. She is desperate to find a way to perform the required religious ablution rites, which she has always been told will protect her from attacks by djinns and facial disfiguration. She starts having nightmares. At the same time, Reyhan is also determined to help Şükran, her best friend in the village.
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Hesitation Wound
A criminal lawyer Canan, divides her time in the courthouse and mother's hospital bed at night. She has to make a moral choice that will affect lives of her mother, judge and murder suspect client.
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Oh Belinda
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.
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The Things You Kill
Questioning the suspicious death of his mother, a university professor and his enigmatic gardener descend into a hypnotic maze of mirrors and memories. As family secrets surface and painful truths emerge, they spiral toward a devastating reckoning with the darkness lurking within us all.
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Dormitory
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
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The Criminals
Late at night in a small Turkish town, a young couple tries to find a hotel room to spend the night together. They are rejected from all hotels for not having a marriage certificate. Once they believe they’ve found a trick to use, the situation gets out of hand.
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9,75
During his military service in 1990's Southeast Turkey, Ahmet experiences something that will haunt him for the rest of his life. In 2013, when the chaotic days of Gezi Park protests in Istanbul start, Ahmet learns he has a brain tumor. Just as the lines between truth and fiction, the dream and the reality start to get blurred for him, he meets Serap; the love of his life. But time is ticking and his painful past weighs down on him every day, suffocating him with the same question: Who is the child that plays hide and seek with him?
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A Hero of Our Time
Quietly selfish, full of grandiose dreams, and fundamentally cold and insensitive toward those around him, Mert is an immature man in his early-30s who resides in a middle-class neighborhood in Istanbul. When he has to deal with his father's funeral preparations in a small town surrounded by tea plantations in the hills of northeastern Turkey, he finds himself trapped in the discrepancy between the world he has selfishly dreamed of and the world in which he actually lives. During the three days in the town, as he ignores every problem that he encounters, he can’t really help facing painful, tragic, and tragicomic experiences which lead him to go through inevitable moments of an instant and intense growing-up story while he discovers that the already existing cracks in his life are growing wider and deeper by the hour.
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2121
100 years from now when humans are forced underground by an ecological disaster and living in bunkers throughout the world. Newborns are prized, middle-aged people are good for labor and the elderly are harvested. When a woman has an unplanned pregnancy, her mother is now in jeopardy and she must figure out how to help her mother escape before the harvesters come to collect her organs…
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Have You Ever Seen Fireflies?
Rebellious, irreverent wunderkind Gülseren navigates loneliness, love and loss against the current of political turmoil and social change.
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The Sleeper
Ferman is a cold-blooded hitman who eliminates former agents for a secret organization. While eliminating a target during one of his missions, he encounters Saye and unexpectedly falls in love with her. Instead of killing her, he chooses to bring her into the organization. This decision marks the beginning of an irreversible path in both of their lives.
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Cici
A family migrates to the city after a tragic loss. When they reunite in their hometown 30 years later, buried emotions and painful secrets resurface.
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You Know Him
Doctor Kemal is head of a private hospital, is ambitious and has the best intentions for the residents of Istanbul. He is the best candidate for mayor of the Beyoglu district – in his opinion. An opinion not shared by his sceptical ex-wife; nor by the voters who come to eat and drink at his expense; nor the party leader, who even after several meetings still thinks he's an architect rather than a doctor; not even his faithful chauffeur. The slogan 'the doctor has the cure' might be catchy, but the doctor has little clue how sick the climate of political nepotism really is.
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Sleep of the Crow
A quiet and calm person who grew up in Germany and worked as the responsible manager in a mine transfer facility that had not been functioning for 4 years, Nasip (32) murdered his wife Sultan by strangling her, while she is asleep, but managed to conceal the incident by posturing it as a suicide. Nasip, who is afraid of killing his son İsmail (7) in his sleep at night, tries to protect him by locking his son and himself in different departments of the establishment routinely every night . Determined to commit suicide with the guilt he is experiencing, Nasip, has to find a family for his son that he can trust.
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Unfruitful Times
After a tragic miscarriage, Nimet -a middle aged woman- gets stuck in the conservative society in Istanbul while her beloved younger sister Öznur carries a burden of her own in the family, trying to struggle her own demons.
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Edge of Night
Brothers Kenan and Sinan Yeşilyaprak, both officers in the Turkish army, have been conflicted since birth. Their father was a prominent — later persecuted — general and their mother a member of the oft-discriminated-against Kurdish minority.
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A Night in Four Parts
Two former high school buddies meet on a raki night in Beyoğlu after 17 years. As they drink and talk they realize another life is possible on a land where toxic masculinity does not exist. They represent the great divide in Turkish gay society: The lonely self-declared homosexuals and the married hypocrites.
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One of Those Days When Hemme Dies
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.
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Geranium
Just before her final exams, 19 years old Defne, has to return to her hometown after her father's stroke. His rehabilitation sessions will give the pair a chance to heal their fragile relationship in this beautiful Mediterranean town.
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Last Call for Istanbul
A chance meeting at the airport leads two married people to an unforgettable night full of excitement, desire, and temptation in New York City.
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Corridor
The Corridor is the story of two old sisters who have totally opposite characters and had to live together. They are carried to loneliness, they can’t socialize neither to each other nor to anyone else. They fall into despair and wicked behaviors but never hurt anyone else but themselves and each other.
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10 Days of a Curious Man
When a young woman goes missing in Istanbul, a jaded writer gets tangled up in a deadly chain of events as he sets out to find her—and a good story.
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The Hardest Thing
Aci Kiraz (Bitter Cherry) is the story of people who are trying to get a hold on their lives in the shadow of a cherry tree, the story of lost lives and proliferating hopes. It talks about an old couple who are growing cherries, a dishonest...
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Kerr
Can witnesses a murder in a small town. The police don't allow him to leave after his testimony. On the other hand, a quarantine is declared due to rabid dogs. The whole town turns into purgatory with no exit is almost at the edge of insanity.
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Zuhal
Zuhal, a successful lawyer living alone in the center of Istanbul, begins to hear the sound of a cat in her house one day. She sets out on a quest in her apartment to find this cat, which no one has heard of but herself.
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Do Not Disturb
A middle-aged man emerges from a pandemic slump with a new job at a quiet hotel, until some eccentric guests turn his first night into a wild adventure.
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Bergen
Bergen, a valuable Turkish arabesque singer, fights to stay afloat despite all the difficulties in her life.
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A True Gentleman
A charming male escort finds his life turned upside down when he starts to fall in love, challenging him to discover what he truly wants and needs.
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When I'm Done Dying
Fehmi is an aspiring young rapper from a slum of Istanbul where the Hip-hop subculture is the voice of the youth. Fehmi dreams of making a successful rap album, despite the disapproval of his family. Fehmi’s addiction to the deadly drug ‘bo
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The Festival of Troubadours
An unexpected reunion between a traveling musician and his son opens old wounds as the two set out on a long journey to a troubadour festival.
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Muallim
After completing his studies in France, young Ali gets exiled to an Anatolian town, where he becomes a teacher and begins to question his own beliefs.
- 58
Grudge
Ahead of a promotion, a police chief becomes entangled in a deadly incident and uncovers an intrigue fueled by grudge that threatens his colleagues.
- 59
Don't Leave
Semih's girlfriend suddenly breaks up with him. In search of answers about their relationship, he must soon confront what he had long ignored.
- 60
Ashes
From an intoxicating fantasy to a dangerous affair, a wealthy married woman finds her life irreversibly shattered after picking up an unpublished novel.
- 61
Chokehold
Evading a scandal, a couple from Istanbul starts over in a town on the Aegean coast — but quickly discover the locals are determined to get rid of them.
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Bihter: A Forbidden Passion
Bihter, who is desperate for love, sees Adnan, a wealthy and respected older guy, as a way out of the stereotype that society and her materialistic mother have given her. But she soon discovers that she is not satisfied with his attention and has other needs.
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The First Gokturk: Prologue
This rebellion, which began with Bumin, Istemi, and his mentor Alagar, will write the epic of a people who broke their chains and re-emerged on the stage of history.
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Once Upon a Time in Diyarbekir
Three friends embark on a life-changing journey triggered by a mysterious white pigeon. Experience a heartwarming tale of perseverance and self-discovery set against the backdrop of a bustling city.
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Chords of Change
During the Turkish artistic revolution of the 1930s, a group of pioneers staged Özsoy Opera, the first opera in the history of Turkish Republic.
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Adile Nasit
A biopic about Turkish actress Adile Naşit (1930—1987), who was featured in many ensemble casts in classic comedy films.
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Not What You Think
Three very different siblings reunite in their hometown Tokat after their father's mysterious death, where shifting alliances, buried memories, and tangled bonds reveal that nothing about their past is as they believed.
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Cold Blooded Love
Two couples end up involved in drug trafficking between the Turkish and Irish mafias. After being chased by a hitman, each one will have to choose between the love of their life or money.
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Hara
Beste (13), whose father is a veterinarian and grew up with horses, resists the new boss's decision to close the farm. In the process of selling the horses one by one, Beste's mother and father decide to leave. A very difficult process begins for the thirteen-year-old girl with the sale of her favorite horse, Turagay, on the one hand, and the disintegration of her family, on the other.
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The Neighborhood
A well-located but poor district in Istanbul, surrounded by gardens, flowers, and trees, is to be leveled by a construction company in order to be able to build higher-quality real estate there. There is resistance to these plans, especially among young people in the neighborhood.
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Momê
A Kurdish woman as a suspect of terrorism: the exciting political thriller deeply depicts the racist surveillance system in Turkey. The young Kurdish woman Arjin is under surveillance by the Turkish intelligence service. Her offense: She housed another Kurdish woman for one night, who then disappeared without a trace. Every step of Arjin and her friend Sidar is monitored from now on. When Ramo, a secret service worker of Kurdish origin, claims to have found evidence that Arjin and Sidar are involved in the planning of a suicide bombing in Istanbul, the ugly face of the Turkish government is uncovered.
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Son Şarkı: Ahmet'in Türküsü
Exiled Turkish–Kurdish folk singer Ahmet Kaya joins a young journalist on a road trip from Paris to Istanbul.
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Mother Elif
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.
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Son Sefer
A driver with hours left until retirement, an engineer who is the silent hero of the sky and passengers... All in the same vehicle, but in different lives. On the night of July 15, an ordinary journey turns into the route of destiny.
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The Bloody Way of Ehraman
A film crew travels out to a village in Anatolia to shoot a movie. But after each were affected by a dream they saw, the remaining four team members decide to stay and investigate the incident.
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Mavzer
Veysi lives in a village in the middle of Anatolia. One morning, when he goes to his barn with his son Mustafa, a pack of wolves attacks on his sheeps and Veysi loses most of them. Thus he wants a better gun to protect his herd, which is Mauser, ‘The king of the rifles’ as they say. Eventually he finds himself in a fight with the wolf and also his brother about their fathers inheritance.
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Gazelle
Yakup, a Turkish music teacher seeking political asylum in New York, is trying to keep his head above water as he navigates the US immigration system. Working illegally in a restaurant kitchen with a lively group of fellow immigrants, he is laser focused on laying the groundwork to bring his wife and daughter abroad. In a desperate attempt to expedite the process, he seeks help from a group of shady fellow countrymen who resort to risky methods to get people out of Turkey. But things quickly go sideways and chances to reunite with his loved ones deteriorate by the minute.
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The Last Dinner
The movie takes place in the kitchen of Cankaya Mansion on Sunday night, October 28, 1923, a day before the proclamation of the establishment of the Republic of Turkey and formally marking the end of the Ottoman Empire.
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The Sparrow's Tear
Successful lawyer Ayten, who deals with the cases of victimized women, takes the case of Emine, who killed her husband. A common point in the duo's past reminds all women that "the past is the mirror of the future".
- 80
The Life of a Snowflake
In Trabzon, snow falls heavily like never before in the last days of autumn, and the roads are blocked. In this setting, two people who attend the same school but have never met have a chance encounter at a bus station, waiting for the same bus that has run late. They fall in love at first sight.
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Bride Squad 2
Berrin believes she'll never regain her trust in men, yet struggles to hold on to her fight against life. Over time, the burden falls not only on her shoulders but also on those of her closest friends. As they grapple with hardship, the friends who once sheltered each other have unwittingly drifted apart, emotional bonds neglected.
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Elli Kelimelik Mektuplar
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As We Breathe
When a chemical fire spreads smoke across her village, young Esma must help her father manage new and old troubles in this brutal and powerful look at a rural Anatolian family.
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Inpaintings
Between the unexpected death of her closest friend in Paris and a shattered, sibylline Ottoman painting in Istanbul; a young fine art conservator tries to navigate through her mid-twenties.
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The House with No Address
Alper is a young and upcoming prosecutor in a land where anyone found guilty of a major crime is erased from society. But when his mother is convicted, Alper begins to question the rules he once fought to uphold.
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The Loop of Fear
A story of a kid named Onur fighting his psychological fears inside his own persona trapped in a loop of dreams.
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The Grand Siege
Berna Tuna, a renowned academic has just died. Her husband, Macit, will take this opportunity to face past wrongdoings and reconnect with his long-neglected daughter İpek. His hope for a fresh start is put to test by his son Alp and his wif
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Humanus Timbres
Arslan is a theater actor who makes a living performing in children's plays. In these times of financial hardship, he has deep thoughts about acting. His elderly grandfather, on the other hand, is a man who sustains his life with medication. Arslan visits his grandfather and collects his medications. Arslan believes that human willpower prevents one from becoming a true actor. One day, he realizes that his grandfather has forgotten to take his medications, but it is already too late; his grandfather has passed away. This loss deeply affects Arslan and drives him to madness in his quest to understand human superiority.
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Accustomed
"Accustomed" is based on the idea of using cinematographic language to portray how the "double burden" that besets a working mother, particularly from a lower class, in Turkish society, where patriarchy is strongly prevalent, is experienced.
- 91
Just Different
Fikret works at the library. He is married and has a ten-year-old son. He literally has a routine life. With his wife leaving home, he loses his ability to continue his daily life. His son suddenly finds himself in the position of his father's father. The film tells the story of a father with high functioning autism and his "normal" son.
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Reflection
A quirky receptionist in a hotel in Istanbul welcomes guests as they tumble upon their daily struggles, all to end up in a mix of chaos and dread after the arrival of a mysterious man who declares that he is their patron Saint.
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Mitat
It tells the life of Mitat Karaman, who has an extremely ordinary life who goes from home to work, from work to home, when she wakes up one night when the bell rings and opens the door of the apartment by pressing the doorphone button.
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The Last Birds of Passage
A nomad family migrates with their camels and goats when summer and winter turn. Balanced between traditional and modern lifestyles, migration season comes. What do they see ahead?
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Above the clouds
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.
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Forever Thirty-Three
Forever Thirty-Three refers to the first original encyclopedia written and completed about the 1500-year journey of Islamic culture and civilization in the Islamic geography. The story follows two fictional characters: Niyaz and Ekmel. Niyaz is a young academic who graduated from the faculty of theology, and Ekmel is a teacher in his sixties at a university. The two characters’ paths cross in the Encyclopedia of Islam by the Turkiye Diyanet Foundation. The remarkable story of one of the most significant cultural movements in Turkiye’s history has been brought to life with a collective memory spanning 33 years...
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Food for a Funeral
Aşık Ziyeddin, an advanced word master in Anatolia of the 60-70s, is in an effort to train an apprentice to continue his profession of word mastery and love interest. The Apprentice Mustafa, who undertakes this hard work, has lost his heart to a girl older than him. He dreams of turning the heart of Gülbeyaz, who does not take care of himself by drinking some food from his hand to become a "Lover of Rights". However, Mustafa's dreams will be tested by religion, destiny, politics and poverty.
- 98
Hayatımız Roman
The film, dedicated to all living Romanis, tells the story of what happened after a murder committed in a Romani neighborhood.
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Broken Years
In the shadow of the 1975 embargo, theater actor Aytekin unwittingly becomes the star of the erotic film craze while trying to protect his family.
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The Village of Istanbul
Some are born in Kadıköy, Istanbul, perhaps the most crowded, clingy, overcritical, undernourished, aloof, vain and apathetic province in the city. Some have lived in Kadıköy, Istanbul, perhaps the most hardworking, driven, thoughtful, altruistic, discreet and participative community in the city. And today, you will see Kadıköy for yourselves.