Dahlimizin en az olduğu sanat rüyadır. Asıl mesele, insanda
sinema var mıydı? Vardı. Heyecanlı anlarda hayallerin bizi sık sık yoklayışı ve
hatırlayışlarımız gibi. (A. H. TANPINAR / Edebiyat Dersleri)
The art in which we are least interested is dream. The real question is, did humans have cinema? There was. Like dreams frequently checking us out and remembering us in exciting moments. (A. H. TANPINAR / Literature Lessons)
New Turkish Cinema
"The term New Turkish Cinema was first used in the 1975-80s in the sense of “realistic cinema” (Atam, 2011, p. 85). While there are those who think that New Turkish Cinema started with the 1960s coup, there are also those who claim that it emerged in the 1980s or even the 1990s. Metin Erksan’s film Gecelerin Ötesi is the first notable film of the 1960s because it initiated the concept of “social realism”. It is the first film to go beyond the Yeşilçam line as a film that resembles the concept of Neorealistic Italian cinema. Erksan’s films are the first examples associated with the term “cinema art” in Turkish cinema (Teksoy, 2009).
According to Zahit Atam, in the 1980s, an economic-political-cultural crisis occurred in Turkey, and an understanding that kept culture and art separate from each other and excluded art began (2011, pp. 93-94). In addition, due to the limited film promotions and the beginning of the video epidemic period, films could not reach the audience. Furthermore, the audience began to change, very few people watched local films and most local films could not be shown in cinemas (p. 97).
By the 1990s, Yeşilçam had completely collapsed, production ended and directors had to shoot their films with their own budgets. This situation “led to the unexpected result of many new directors producing films that took cinema seriously” (Teksoy, 2009, p. 940). Yavuz Turgul’s Eşkıya film was a turning point in this period, and despite the lack of a promotional campaign, it reached approximately two and a half million viewers. Eşkıya is a film in which attention was paid to its music and camera, and considering the technology of the period, it can be admitted that the camera was used well. It is accepted that Eşkıya made the audience go to the cinema again and revived Turkish films." SOURCE
Bir Yeni Türkiye Sineması ve Zaman-İmge Sineması Olarak Uzak Filmi | Bihter İşler|21 Mayıs 2019
"Although the Yeşilçam period effectively ended after the 1980 coup, it is possible to trace the Yeşilçam aesthetics and narrative patterns in the films of directors who were mostly trained during the Yeşilçam period. However, by the 1990s, the production, distribution and screening conditions of films had completely changed. With the division of large cinemas into small pocket theaters, the entry of global powers into the Turkish market and major American companies opening branches in Turkey with the Foreign Capital Law of 1989, domestic cinema entered a tough competition. During this period, American film companies closed their cinemas for the entire season with package programs, and domestic films could not find a place in the theaters. Distributors avoided taking risks by distributing domestic films. The crisis environment that commercial cinema entered in the 1990s necessitated the emergence of a generation of "producers-directors" who worked with low budgets and had the chance to shoot their own films as they wished. Instead of Yeşilçam's studio system and directors who shoot films for the audience, a generation of young and intellectual directors who convey their inner worlds and the social, political and economic climate of the country, using cinema as a means of expression, is emerging. The majority of the directors in this generation are university educated, have a profession outside the cinema sector, speak a foreign language, have contact with the outside world and have acquired a certain film culture thanks to the Istanbul Film Festival.
With a young generation of directors joining the sector, the practice of producing cinema also changes. With Turkey becoming a member of Eurimages (European Cinema Support Fund) in 1990, examples of art cinema, in addition to commercial cinema, also find an important source of finance. Eurimages provided support to Turkish cinema of 29 million 340 thousand French francs between 1997-2000.58 Although the number of film productions decreased significantly in the 1990s, Eurimages-supported co-production films found a chance to survive.
Naked (Ali Özgentürk, 1990), Blue Exile (Erden Kıral, 1991), Fanatik (Şerif Gören, 1993), Kuşatma Altında Aşk (Ersin Pertan, 1995), Ağır Roman (Mustafa Altıoklar, 1996), Akrebin Yolculukluğu (Ömer Kavur, 1996), Eşkıya (Yavuz Turgul, 1996), Güneşe Yolculuk (Yeşim Ustaoğlu, 1997), Sis ve Gece (Sinan Çetin, 1998) receive support from Eurimages. As can be seen in these examples, Eurimages is one of the important actors in the reconstruction process of Turkish cinema after Yeşilçam and provides significant support not only to examples of art cinema but also to popular box office films. In this way, the cinema sector in Turkey is also mobilized. Eurimages, which provides encouraging support for film production in festivals abroad and during economic crisis periods when it is difficult to make films, also plays an important role in increasing the visibility of Turkish cinema. In the early 1990s, the founding directors of the trend we call New Turkish Cinema today also begin to make their first films. Reha Erdem becomes the pioneer of the new era with his first medium-length work A Ay (1988), Zeki Demirkubuz with C-Blok (1993), Yeşim Ustaoğlu with İz (1994), Nuri Bilge Ceylan with his first short film Koza (1995) and Derviş Zaim with his film Tabutta Rövaşata (1996). These directors, due to the conditions, adopt the auteur director attitude and have a say in the entire production.
The films produced by these names receive support from Eurimages and various funds abroad and enter international circulation, thus gaining the chance to be shown all over the world. With globalization, directors, films and sector representatives from all over the world come together with festivals, competitions and special screenings. In a sense, the dream of a "global village" ceases to be a dream in the 2000s and becomes a reality itself. The expansion of the possibilities of digital cinema also brings with it the ability to easily overcome transportation, communication and physical boundaries.
In this period, Turkish cinema successfully evaluates globalization and new production, distribution and screening models and makes a breakthrough abroad.
Turkish films screened all over the world, especially in Cannes, Berlin and Venice, return with important awards from the places they are screened. The successes of the directors who started producing in the 1990s in festivals and their recognition in the field of cinema also affect the new generation. The most decisive elements in the cinema of the 2000s are to produce productions that will gain visibility abroad in terms of content, form and aesthetics and that will integrate with the European art cinema tradition. In a period when filmmaking is becoming global all over the world and standardization trends are also increasing, Turkish cinema will also enter into a new search in this sense." SOURCE
Türk Sineması’nın Tarihine Genel Bir Bakış | Barış SAYDAM
Link: New Turkish Cinema | Films of 20th Century
Important Turkish Films of 21st Century
2001
BANA ŞANS DILE | 2001 ÇAĞAN IRMAK
BU BENIM YOLCULUĞUM | 2001 HASAN KARCI
BÜYÜK ADAM KÜÇÜK AŞK | 2001 HANDAN İPEKÇI
DANSÖZ | 2001 SAVAŞ AY
DELI YÜREK: BUMERANG CEHENNEMI | 2001 OSMAN SINAV
ECTASY | 2001 NECATI ASLAN
FOTOĞRAF | 2001 KAZIM ÖZ
HEMŞO | 2001 ÖMER UĞUR
HERKES KENDI EVINDE | 2001 SEMIH KAPLANOĞLU
İTIRAF | 2001 ZEKI DEMIRKUBUZ
KARDAKILER | 2001 MÜJDAT SAYLAV
KIRLANGIÇ DÖNÜŞÜ | 2001 OĞUZ GÖZEN
KOMSER ŞEKSPIR | 2001 SINAN ÇETIN
MARUF | 2001 SERDAR AKAR
O DA BENI SEVIYOR | 2001 BARIŞ PIRHASAN
OYUNBOZAN | 2001 NESLI ÇÖLGEÇEN
RÜZGARLI TEPE | 2001 ORHAN ÇETIN
SARI GÜNLER | 2001 RAVIN ASAF
SESSIZ ÖLÜM | 2001 HÜSEYIN KARABEY
SON | LEVENT KIRCA
ŞELLALE | 2001 SEMIR ASLANYÜREK
VIZONTELE | 2001 YILMAZ ERDOĞAN
The story takes place in a small town (called Hakkari) in
Turkey at the beginning of the 70’s. The time has come to bring technology into
that small town. The first Television (or called Visiontele by the citizens)
arrives and the chaos begins.
YAŞAMAK İÇIN | 2001 ORHAN AĞAOĞLU
YAZGI / FATE | 2001 ZEKI DEMIRKUBUZ
Musa, who works as a bookkeeper in the customs office,
believes in the emptiness and absurdity of life. He doesn't struggle to change
his life; he lets himself flow along with events because he thinks that it all
leads to the same end. The death of his mother doesn't affect him. Although he
loves her, her death makes him joyful.
2002
9 | 2002 ÜMIT ÜNAL
ABDÜLHAMID DÜŞERKEN | 2002
ÇAMUR | 2002 DERVIS ZAIM
HIÇBIRYERDE / IN NOWHERE LAND | 2002 TAYFUN PIRSELIMOGLU
IÇERIDEKI | 2002
KOLAY PARA | 2002
MARTILAR AÇKEN | 2002
MUMYA FIRARDA | 2002
O ŞIMDI ASKER | 2002
ÖMERÇIP | 2002
RUS GELIN | 2002
SIR ÇOCUKLARI | 2002
SON | 2002
UZAK / DISTANT | 2002 NURI BILGE CEYLAN
Mahmut (Muzaffer Özdemir) is a successful Istanbul
photographer, but has arrived at middle age divorced, disillusioned and
uninspired. His fastidiously ordered and mostly solitary life in the city is
upset by the arrival of his cousin Yusuf (Mehmet Emin Toprak), a country
bumpkin from the home village Mahmut left behind years ago. Having promised his
mother to let Yusuf stay with him until he can find a new job, Mahmut braces
for a long winter of odd coupledom with his hapless cousin and his fruitless job
search. "UZAK is about loneliness and depression, and particularly the
kind of depression suffered by men of a certain age who would cut their tongues
out rather than admit they are depressed. Yet the film itself is, gloriously,
the opposite of depressing. It is gentle and deeply humane, and even ventures
into an arena of delicate visual comedy with a shy adroitness." — Peter
Bradshaw, The Guardian. Winner, Grand Prix and Best Actor(s) (Özdemir and
Toprak), 2003 Cannes Film Festival.
YEŞIL IŞIK | 2002
2003
ASMALI KONAK: HAYAT | 2003
BEKLEME ODASI | 2003
DISTANT / UZAK | NURI BILGE CEYLAN
Yusuf leaves his small town and comes to Istanbul, looking
for eventual work on one of the harbor boats. Forced out of home by the
economic crisis that left him jobless, he moves in with an older, distant
relative, Mahmut who has made a career as a photographer in the big city. The
encounter between the taciturn, passive young man, who roams aimlessly about
the wintry city and the obsessive bachelor, clinging to the routines of his
solitary life, are fleshed out by a myriad of details. Not much is said between
the two men, nor does much happen either; this is essentially a series of
insignificant events that accumulate into a desolate portrait of alienation
amid normal circumstances...
ESKI AÇIK SARI DESENE | 2003
GÜLÜM | 2003
HABABAM SINIFI ASKERDE | 2003
HABABAM SINIFI MERHABA | 2003
İNAT HIKAYELERI | 2003
İNŞAAT | 2003
KARŞILAŞMA | 2003
METROPOL KABUSU | 2003
MUSTAFA HAKKINDA HERŞEY | 2003
OKUL | 2003
SEN HIÇ GÜNEŞTE ÜŞÜDÜN MÜ? | 2003
WAITING FOR THE CLOUDS / BULUTLARI BEKLERKEN | YEŞIM
USTAOĞLU
A member of a Greek family in Turkey is forced to immigrate
from Trabzon to Mersin in her youth. However, events cause her to face her own
past.
2004
ANLAT İSTANBUL / TELL ME ISTANBUL 2004 ÜMIT ÜNAL, ÖMÜR ATAY
BÜYÜ | 2004
BULUTLARI BEKLERKEN / WAITING FOR THE CLOUDS | 2003 YEŞIM
USTAOĞLU
DUVARA KARŞI / HEAD ON | 2004 FATIH AKIN
G.O.R.A. | 2004
HAYAL KURMA OYUNLARI | 2004
İSTANBUL HATIRASI: KÖPRÜYÜ GEÇMEK | 2004
KALBIN ZAMANI | 2004
KARPUZ KABUGUNDAN GEMILER YAPMAK / BOATS OUT OF WATERMELON
RINDS | 2004 AHMET ULUÇAY
The 60’s, Tepecik, a small Anatolian village… In his
award-winning debut feature film, Directed by Ahmet Ulucay portrays the
innocence of childhood and the lure of the cinema for two teens in a small
Turkish village. Working for a watermelon seller by day, Remet spends his
evenings trying to rebuild a film projector with his friend Mehmet. Both have big
dreams to be famous film director one day.
KORKUYORUM ANNE / MOMMY, I'M SCARED| 2004 REHA ERDEM
NEREDESIN FIRUZE / WHERE’S FIRUZE? | 2004 EZEL AKAY
Hayri and Orhan are two music producers head over heels in
debt. In an attempt to find the next big thing to turn the business around,
they contact Ferhat, a gastarbeiter in Germany, and desperately bring him to
Istanbul to sign him. As they are struggling to find the necessary funds to
promote Ferhat’s debut album, a mysterious rich woman named Firuze shows up and
starts supporting them. The future now seems bright, but things are not always
what they seem…
O ŞIMDI MAHKUM | 2004
SIRTLARINDAKI HAYAT | 2004
VIZONTELE TUUBA | 2004
YAZI TURA | 2004 UĞUR YÜCEL
2005
17 MAYIS | 2005
ANKARA EKSPRESI | 2005
AYIN KARANLIK YÜZÜ | 2005
BABAM VE OĞLUM / MY FATHER AND MY SON | 2005 ÇAĞAN IRMAK
BALANS VE MANEVRA | 2005
BANYO | 2005
CENNETI BEKLERKEN | 2005 DERVIŞ ZAIM
ÇALINTI GÖZLER | 2005
DONDURMAM GAYMAK | 2005 YÜKSEL AKSU
DÖNGEL KÂRHANESI | 2005
EĞRETI GELIN | 2005
GECE 11:45 | 2005
GELIBOLU | 2005
GEN | 2005
GÖNÜL YARASI / HEART ACHE | 2005 YAVUZ TURGUL
HABABAM SINIFI ÜÇ BUÇUK | 2005
HACIVAT KARAGÖZ NEDEN ÖLDÜRÜLDÜ? / WHO KILLED SHADOWS? | 2005 EZEL AKAY
HIRSIZ VAR! | 2005
İKI GENÇ KIZ | 2005 KUTLUĞ ATAMAN
KISIK ATEŞTE 15 DAKIKA | 2005
MASKELI BEŞLER İNTIKAM PEŞINDE | 2005
MELEĞIN DÜŞÜŞÜ | 2005 SEMIH KAPLANOĞLU
ORGANIZE İŞLER | 2005
PARDON | 2005
SEN NE DILERSEN | 2005
ŞANS KAPIYI KIRINCA
SINEMA BIR MUCIZEDIR / CINEMA IS A MIRACLE | 2005 MEMDUH ÜN
THE İMAM | 2005
TÜREV | 2005
2006
KADER / DESTINY | 2006 ZEKI DEMIRKUBUZ
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.
BEŞ VAKIT / TIMES AND WINDS | 2006 REHA ERDEM
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.
CENNETI BEKLERKEN/ WAITING FOR HEAVEN | DERVIS ZAIM
Eflatun is a master miniature artist who's living in 17th
century Istanbul. One day, he's taken to the vizier's mansion by force. There
he learns that Danyal, one of the Ottoman princes who has ignited an
insurrection, is arrested in a far-off state and to be executed soon.
HOKKABAZ / JUGGLER | 2006 CEM YILMAZ, ALI TANER BALTACI
Failed magician Iskender decides to do a tour to save his
career, but has to bring his grumpy and senile father along. The tour is quite
unexpectedly interrupted when a bride actually disappears from the stage.
TAKVA / A MAN’S FEAR OF GOD | 2006 ÖZER KIZILTAN
I just wanted to be a good person.
Humble and introvert Muharrem lives in a solitary and meager
existence of a prayer and sexual abstinence adhering strictly to the most
severe Islamic doctrines.His extraordinary devotion attracts the attention of
the leader of a rich and powerful Istanbul religious group and he offers him an
administrative post as a rent collector for their numerous properties.
Muharrem’s new job throws him into the modern outside world he has successfully
avoided for so long. He soon witnesses conflict attitude toward alcohol
consumption and goodwill.He notices that he himself has become proud,
domineering and even dishonest.To make matters worse, Muharrem’s inner peace is
unnerved by the tormenting image of seductive woman who tempts him in his
dreams,both night and day.With the balance of his devotion now upset,his fear
of God begins to eat away at his senses.
KÜÇÜK KIYAMET / THE LITTLE APOCALYPSE| 2006 YAĞMUR TAYLAN,
DURUL TAYLAN
İKLIMLER / CLIMATES | 2006 NURI BILGE CEYLAN
2007
RECEP İVEDIK | 2007 TOGAN GÖKBAKAR
THE EDGE OF HEAVEN | 2007 FATIH AKIN
YUMURTA / EGG | 2007 SEMIH KAPLANOĞLU
RIZA | 2007 TAYFUN PIRSELIMOGLU
BARDA / IN BAR | 2007 SERDAR AKAR
A group of young high society friends, aged between 18 and
25, are gathered at a friend's bar that they frequent for the night. But when
they finish off their last beer and prepare to head home they find themselves
held captive at gunpoint by five strangers. Bound and gagged, they are
tortured, raped, and murdered until the next morning.
RIZA | 2007 TAYFUN PIRSELIMOĞLU
Riza is a truck driver. When his truck breaks down, Riza
can’t work and his livelihood is threatened. Using every possible means, he
desparately tries to drum up the money for the repairs. And this includes being
prepared to commit a brutal crime.
2008
SUT / MILK | 2008 SEMIH KAPLANOĞLU
A high school graduate, Yusuf could not pass the university
entrance exam. Writing poetry is his greatest passion and some of his poems are
being printed in various obscure literary journals. But neither these poems,
nor the rapidly falling price of the milk they sell, are being of any benefit
to Yusuf and Zehra’s lives. When Yusuf finds out about Zehra’s secret affair
with the town’s stationmaster he gets disconcerted. Will he find the way to
cope with his anxiety for the unknown future, the rapid change that he is going
through and the pain of taking a step into adulthood and leaving his youth
behind
ÜÇ MAYMUN/ THREE MONKEYS | 2008 NURI BILGE CEYLAN
A family battles against the odds to stay together when
small lies grow into an extravagant cover-up. In order to avoid hardship and
responsibilities that would otherwise be impossible to endure, the family
chooses to ignore the truth, not to see, hear or talk about it. But does
playing “Three Monkeys” invalidate the truth of its existence?
TATIL KITABI / SUMMER BOOK | 2008 SEYFI TEOMAN
Mustafa is a hard-working and ambitious agricultural
merchant who is cold and austere towards his family. One day he has a brain
hemorrhage on a business trip and goes into a coma after the operation. Guler
is suspicious of her husband having an affair. Veysel, their teenage son, wants
to leave the military academy and study business administration. Ali, their
10-year-old son, has to cope both with his bully classmate and the chewing gums
he has to sell. Hasan, Mustafa’s younger brother, chose to live a life in
solitude after getting a divorce, and has always been an outsider to the
family. But now, with his brother in coma, he finds himself involved in family
affairs. Hasan has to solve the mystery about Mustafa’s mistress and the money
lost during his trip.
İKI DIL BIR BAVUL / TWO LANGUAGES ONE LUGGAGE | 2008 ORHAN
ESKIKÖY, ÖZGÜR DOĞAN
SONBAHAR / FALL | 2008 OZCAN ALPER
Arrested while a student in university, Yusuf is released
from prison after ten years. He returns home and is welcomed by his sick and
elderly mother. Soon he will meet Eka, a beautiful Georgian girl who is a sex
worker, and love becomes a final desperate attempt to grasp life and elude
loneliness.
HAYAT VAR / MY ONLY SUNSHINE | 2008 REHA ERDEM
Hayat, her father and bedridden grandfather live in a
riverside shack near the dangerously dark but breathtakingly beautiful waters
of the Bosphorus. Hayat's father owns a small boat that secures the family's
survival through a miscellany of not always lawful ventures. Beyond the motion
and romance of the water, Hayat's life is harsh and unrelenting.
ISSIZ ADAM / ALONE | 2008 ÇAĞAN IRMAK
OKUL TIRAŞI / BROTHER’S KEEPER | FERIT KARAHAN
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 school’s repressive authorities to try to
help his friend. But by the time the adults in charge finally understand the
seriousness of Memo’s condition and try to get him to the hospital, the school
has been buried under a sudden, heavy snowfall. With no way out and now desperate
to get help, teachers and pupils engage in a blame game where grudges, feelings
of guilt and hidden secrets emerge, as time ticks mercilessly on and threatens
to run out.
PAZAR: BIR TICARET MASALI / THE MARKET: A TALE OF TRADE |
2008 BEN HOPKINS
PANDORA’S BOX / PANDORA'NIN KUTUSU | YEŞIM USTAOĞLU
When an aging matriarch starts showing signs of dementia,
her dysfunctional family in Istanbul must navigate a minefield of unresolved
issues to care for her.
2009
UZAK İHTIMAL / WRONG
ROSARY | 2009 MAHMUT FAZIL COŞKUN
Muezzin Musa falls
for his neighbor, the Catholic nurse Clara. The story gets even more
exceptional when Musa meets Yakup, who turns out to be connected with Clara.
KOSMOS | 2009 REHA ERDEM
A mysterious stranger with healing powers arrives in a small
village.
Kosmos is a thief and a miracle-worker. He appears one morning in a tiny, snowbound border village where he is welcomed with open arms – on account of arriving just in time to resuscitate a small boy who would otherwise have drowned.
MOMMO - KIZ KARDEŞIM / MOMMO THE BOGEYMAN | 2009 ATALAY TAŞDIKEN
EYYVAH EYVAH | 2009 HAKAN ALGÜL
VAVIEN | 2009 YAĞMUR TAYLAN, DURUL TAYLAN
Celal, lives an unhappy family life with his wife Sevilay
and his child in a small town. Celal and his brother Cemal, running an
electrician shop which doesn’t go well. They are in debt. The only fun they
have is going to the night clubs in Samsun. Celal’s love for Sibel Ceylan who
works in the night club, will cause him trouble. Celal’s wife, Sevilay, saves
her money, sent by her father who lives in Germany. She is unaware of the fact
that Celal knows her secret.
KÖPRÜDEKILER / MEN ON THE BRIDGE | 2009 ASLI ÖZGE
10 TO 11 | 2009 PELIN ESMER
Mithat is a retired civil servant. Ali is doorman of his
apartment. The two men belong to different worlds, unless they live in same
apartment.
BES SEHIR / FIVE CITIES | 2009 ONUR ÜNLÜ
Five characters, trying to struggle for life, who are far
from each other mentally, are connected with coincidences or desires.
2010
ATLIKARINCA / MERRY GO ROUND | 2010 ILKSEN BASARIR.
Erdem and Sevil live in a small town with their two kids,
Edip and Sevgi, until they are forced to move to Istanbul to look after Sevil's
mother who has become paralyzed. Ten years later, Edip is away at boarding
school, disconnected from family life. Erdem still has the same dream: to
become a successful writer.
AV MEVSIMI / HUNT SEASON | 2010 YAVUZ TURGUL
ANADOLU'NUN KAYIP ŞARKILARI / LOST SONGS OF ANATOLIA. | 2010
NEZIH ÜNENÇOĞUNLUK / MAJORITY | 2010
SEREN YÜCE
BAL / HONEY | 2010 SEMIH KAPLANOĞLU
SAC / HAIR | 2010 TAYFUN PIRSELIMOGLU
GISE MEMURU | 2010 TOLGA KARAÇELIK
Quiet and introverted toll booth clerk Kenan's life, a
humdrum routine between the Tavsancik toll booth plaza and his home, will
change the day the new operations chief comes to inspect Tavsancik.
YUZLER VE GOLGELER / SHADOWS AND FACES | 2010 DERVIS ZAIM
Shadows and Faces tells the story of a young girl who is
separated from his shadow puppetry performer father during the ethnic conflict
between Cypriot Greeks and Cypriot Turks in 1963.
MAJORITY / ÇOĞUNLUK|
2010 SEREN YÜCE
A middle-class young man rebels against his father’s brutish
authority and seeks a rough romance with a woman of ethnic minority. Yuce’s
moral tale draws from the example of today’s Turkish youth and the timeless
shadow of fathers over sons. Mertkan has a simple life in Istanbul: 'working'
as an office-boy in his dad's construction company, hanging out with his male
friends in malls and discos, cruising with his dad's 4-wheel drive at night.
There is no urgency for him to find a meaning to this emptiness.
BAL / HONEY | 2010 | SEMIH KAPLANOĞLU
In the remote and undeveloped eastern Black Sea region, a
six-year-old boy (Yusuf) wanders through the woods searching for his lost
father, trying to make sense of his life.His father is a beekeeper whose bees
have disappeared unexpectedly, threatening his livelihood. A bizarre accident
kills the father.There is little dialogue or music in the film. The three main
characters (Yusuf and his parents) are all fairly taciturn, and the soundtrack
is filled out with the sounds of the forest and the creatures that live
there.The environment is a recurring theme.
PUS/HAZE | 2010 TAYFUN PIRSELIMOGLU
Ruhi Sarı as a withdrawn young man who gets caught up with a shadowy criminal plot.
SAÇ / HAIR | 2010 TAYFUN PIRSELIMOGLU
Hamdi is
a wigmaker. After being diagnosed with terminal cancer he loses interest in
everything. Then he meets Meryem, who wants to sell her beautiful long hair.
2011
AŞK TESADÜFLERI SEVER | 2011 ÖMER FARUK SORAK
KAYBEDENLER KULÜBÜ / LOOSERS CLUB | 2011 TOLGA ÖRNEK
THE EXTREMELY TRAGIC STORY OF CELAL TAN AND HIS FAMILY |
2011 ONUR ÜNLÜ
BIZIM BÜYÜK ÇARESIZLIĞIMIZ / OUR GRAND DESPAIR | 2011 SEYFI
TEOMAN
The peaceful cohabitation of two 30-something bachelors is
disrupted when they both fall in love with the charming young woman who moves
in with them.
BIR ZAMANLAR ANADOLUDA / ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA | 2011
NURI BILGE CEYLAN
A group of men lead a search for a victim of a murder to
whom a suspect named Kenan and his mentally challenged brother confessed.
However, the search is proving more difficult than expected as Kenan is fuzzy
as to the body’s location. As the group continues looking, its members can’t
help but chat among themselves about everyday life, which ultimately leads to
conversations about their deepest existential concerns and secrets.
2012
ARAF / IN BETWEEN | 2012 YEŞIM USTAOĞLU
Araf is the story of Zehra and Olgun whose lives are caught
in a vacuum. The world in which they live, and work is a place of throwaway
culture and constant change. They too are waiting for a chance to change and
escape from their empty, monotonous lives.
TEPENIN ARDI / BEYOND THE HILL | 2012 EMIN ALPER
In the quiet foothills of Turkey, Faik lives an isolated
existence. When his second son brings his boys for a visit, Faik takes the
opportunity to pontificate about the law of the land, as he sees it. He shares
one unsolicited thought after the next, most particularly focusing on the
elusive nomads whom he suspects have been trespassing on his property. The day
and night wear on, and each member of the clan takes his turn entrusting the
film’s audience with his own dark secret.
KÜF / MOLD |2012 ALI AYDIN
Basri, 55 year old, every day walks for miles along the
tracks working as a railroad watchman. His nagging thought is finding his son.
Eighteen years ago, while the boy was studying at the university in Istanbul,
the police took him into custody for antigovernment activities. Then, he
mysteriously disappeared.
YERALTI / UNDERGROUND | 2012 | ZEKI DEMIRKUBUZ
A man’s life, thoughts, feelings and his very own darkness…
Adapted from Dostoevsky’s novel “Notes from Underground”, Demirkubuz follows
Muharrem as he gets himself invited to a party where he is not welcome, just to
find himself disgusted.
2013
JÎN | 2013 REHA ERDEM
CELAL ILE CEREN / CELAL AND CEREN | 2013 TOGAN GÖKBAKAR
SEN AYDINLATIRSIN GECEYI / THOU GILD'ST THE EVEN | 2013 ONUR
ÜNLÜ
man is created of ‘anxiety’. In a small town in Anatolia, whose inhabitants possess various supernatural powers but still have to deal with ordinary problems, Cemal helps out in his father’s barbershop and, in his free time, acts as a football referee.
HAYATBOYU / LIIFELONG 2013 ASLI ÖZGE
Nisantasi is a classy Istanbul residential district. Its
inhabitants may be rich and beautiful but they are not necessarily happy. This
is the case for 52-year-old architect Can and his wife Ela, an artist who is
already past her creative prime. Their daughter Nil has left home to study in
Ankara. Left to their own devices, the couple realise that their passion for
each other is not what it once was. Nonetheless they both feel secure in the
safe harbour of a marriage which places no demands for critical questions or
complex explanations. One day, Ela happens to overhear her husband talking on
the phone. (Berlinale.de)
BEN O DEGILIM / I AM NOT HIM | 2013 TAYFUN PIRSELIMOGLU
Nihat, an introverted employee in a hospital cafeteria, is
confused by Ayse, a mysterious woman who just started working there as a
dishwasher. When Nihat discovers a picture of the woman's husband and realizes
that he looks astoundingly like him, their relationship becomes even more
toxic.
KELEBEĞIN RÜYASI / THE BUTTERFLY’S DREAM| 2013 YILMAZ
ERDOĞAN
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.
JÎN | 2013 REHA ERDEM
A bitter conflict has raged between guerrillas and the army
in Turkey’s Kurdish regions for over 30 years. Large expanses have now become
war zones. Countless young people have lost their lives to the conflict. This
dangerous but incredibly beautiful mountainous country is home to 17-year-old
Jîn. But she is no longer safe since she secretly stole away from a group of
rebels with whom she was fighting. Now she wanders the picturesque landscape
alone, caught between two fronts. All of a sudden, the sound of gunfire and
explosions rend the air above the untouched natural scenery. Attack is
threatened from all sides. Desperate to find peace, Jîn decides to escape to
another part of the country – an impossible plan, since the military is
omnipresent and there are road blocks everywhere. As a Kurd without identity
papers she risks arrest at every turn. In addition, as a woman with no family
to shield her, many men will see her as fair game. But her courage is unbroken.
Yozgat Blues | 2013 | Mahmut Fazıl Coşkun
Sabri, a barber in Yozgat - a very small city in the middle
of Anatolia - has an emotional breakdown when he runs into Yavuz and Neşe, who
come to the town to sing in a small music hall-bar. This will also affect Neşe
and Yavuz. None of their desires will be how they want them to be.
2014
KIŞ UYKUSU / WINTER SLEEP | 2014 NURI BILGE CEYLAN
Aydın is a hotel owner and a retired actor in rural Turkey.
As winter emerges, he begins navigating the conflicts within the relationships
with his wife, sister and existence.
SIVAS | 2014 KAAN MÜJDECI
Establishing a bleak village in Eastern Turkey as its
setting, Sivas features the story of Aslan, an eleven-year-old boy, and Sivas,
a weathered fighting dog who develop a strong relationship after Aslan finds
Sivas wounded in a ditch, left to die.
2015
TOZ BEZI / DUST CLOTH | 2015 AHU ÖZTÜRK
Nesrin and Hatun are two Kurdish cleaning women living in
Istanbul. While Nesrin tries to survive with her little daughter, trying to
understand why her husband left her, Hatun dreams of buying a house in the
district where they clean.
ABLUKA / FRENZY | 2015 EMIN ALPER
With Istanbul mired in political violence, Kadir is offered
release after 15 years in prison if he’ll work as an informant. In a shantytown
he stumbles upon his brother Ahmet, working for the city rounding up stray dogs
and shutting himself in his home.
BASKIN / THE RAID | 2015 CAN EVRENOL
SARMASIK / IVY | 2015 TOLGA KARAÇELIK
After the owner’s bankruptcy, the crew is stranded on a
freighter for months. Dealing with the stress of isolation, seafarers gradually
surrender to madness and terror
MUSTANG | 2015 DENIZ GAMZE ERGÜVEN
KALANDAR SOĞUĞU / COLD OF KALANDAR | 2015 MUSTAFA KARA
BULANTI / NAUSEA | 2015
ZEKI DEMIRKUBUZ
Upon losing his wife and son, Ahmet has to struggle with the
feeling of loneliness.
MUSTANG | 2015 DENIZ GAMZE ERGÜVEN
Their spirit would never be broken. In a Turkish village,
five orphaned sisters live under strict rule while members of their family
prepare their arranged marriages.
MOTHERLAND / ANA YURDU
Directed by Senem Tüzen
Nesrin is an urban, middle-class woman recovering from a
divorce. She’s quit her office job, abandoned her house in Istanbul, and come
to the village house of her deceased grandmother to finish a novel and live out
her childhood dream of being a writer. When her conservative and increasingly
unhinged mother turns up uninvited and refuses to leave, Nesrin’s writing
stalls and her fantasies of village life turn bitter as the two are forced to
confront the darker corners of each other’s inner worlds
COLD OF KALANDAR / KALANDAR SOĞUĞU
Directed by Mustafa Kara
Mehmet is a man living with his family in a mountain village
in the Black Sea region. He earns his living by breeding a few animals, while
passionately looking for a mineral reserve on the mountains, but his pursuit is
seen useless by his family. Devastated by vain efforts, his hope is renewed
with a competition. Mehmet will attend the bull fight held in Artvin, but he
returns from Artvin completely lost, once again. This simple story pictures the
naive portrait of a touching life, a life struggle in hardship and the
relationship between nature, animals and human beings
LEMONADE | 2015 ALI ATAY
So begins an entertaining road story where we witness two
brothers with different cultural backgrounds, who don't even know each other,
have similarities, differences and even their fights.
2016
KOCA DÜNYA / BIG BIG WORLD | 2016 REHA ERDEM
KOR / AMBER | 2016 ZEKI DEMIRKUBUZ
OSMAN PAZARLAMA | 2016 TOGAN GÖKBAKAR
KEDI (CAT) | 2016 CEYDA TORUN
A cat meowing at your feet, looking up at you, is life
smiling at you… A profile of Istanbul and its unique people, seen through the
eyes of the most mysterious and beloved animal humans have ever known, the Cat.
ALBÜM | 2016 MEHMET CAN MERTOGLU
A middle-class Turkish couple is far from willing to admit
they used adoption as a last resort to build a family, and will do anything to
keep it a secret.
TEREDDÜT / CLAIR OBSCUR | 2016 YEŞIM USTAOĞLU
Şehnaz, a young female psychiatrist from Istanbul, starts
mandatory duty in a provincial town. Back in the city, she maintains a marriage
that looks flawless on the outside. Elmas, a young woman on the verge of
breakdown, opens a new path in her.
2017
KÖRFEZ / THE GULF | 2017
EMRE YEKSAN
Leaving behind a ruined career and a bitter divorce, Selim
returns to his hometown Izmir. Unwilling to make plans for the future, he
wanders around revisiting his past: family, schoolmates, an ex-lover. He runs
into Cihan, a friend from the military service, an idler with a charming
energy. As people start leaving Izmir due to a terrible smell caused by a
mysterious maritime accident, Selim finds himself gradually drawn to a new
world where he will go back embracing the possibilities of life.
MORE / DAHA | 2017 ONUR SAYLAK
Gaza is a 14-year-old boy who lives on the Aegean coast of
Turkey. Together with his domineering father, he helps smuggle refugees from
war-torn countries to Europe, giving them temporary lodgings and scant food
until they attempt the crossing. Gaza dreams of escaping this life, but can’t
help being drawn into a dark world of immorality, exploitation and human
suffering. Can you avoid becoming a monster when you’ve been raised by one?
Onur Saylak’s debut feature, adapted from the award-winning novel of the same
title by Hakan Günday, one of the first novels to document the refugee crisis
in Europe, “More” is the gripping story of a boy that gets to grow up in a
world where there’s no room for innocence.
KAYGI / 2017 | 2017 CEYLAN ÖZGÜN ÖZÇELIK
We Forget Everything, Except For Our Nightmares. Hasret has been seeing the same nightmare for some time, but she keeps living unaware that what she sees is actually remembering. A 30-year-old woman who works in a News Channel, living alone in the flat left by her musician parents who died in a car crash twenty years ago. Is it? The question creeps into her mind, and then (or maybe even before) her life through recurring nightmares: Is it possible that her parents did not die in a car crash?
2018
KELEBEKLER / BUTTERFLIES | 2018 TOLGA KARAÇELIK
There is nothing more dangerous than an astronaut with
nothing to lose, Three strangers with one thing in common — the same father —
come to a Turkish village to bury him, and learn about him and each other.
AHLAT AĞACI / THE WILD PEAR TREE | 2018 NURI BILGE CEYLAN
THE WILD PEAR TREE / AHLAT AĞACI |2018 NURI BILGE CEYLAN
Fresh out of university, a Turkish young man with literary
aspirations returns to his home village, and to his father, a debt-ridden man
with a gambling problem.
SIBEL |2018 ÇAGLA ZENCIRCI, GUILLAUME GIOVANETTI
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.
2019
KIZ KARDEŞLER / SISTERS | 2019 EMIN ALPER
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.
NUH TEPESI / NOAH LAND | 2019 CENK ERTÜRK
ASK, BUYU VS / LOVE,
SPELLS AND ALL THAT | 2019 ÜMIT ÜNAL
After not having seen each other for 20 years, two women are
reunited on the small Turkish island where, as teenagers, they first fell in
love. What is the mysterious force that binds them together after all this
time? And what can they do about it?
BILMEMEK / NOT
KNOWING | 2019 LEYLA YILMAZ
"Not
knowing" focuses on the life of a family that is not satisfied with their
lives. Selma and Sinan are a couple who now find it difficult to endure each
other. Umut, the son of the house, is after to prove himself. At the end of
high school, rumors start circulating about Umut, who is homosexual. While
Selma and Sinan are trying to cope with their tiring marriage, Umut suddenly
disappears when the rumors go away and his head disappears. While Selma and
Sinan are looking for their son, he realizes that they have actually lost
themselves.
BELONGING / AIDIYET
Directed by Burak Çevik
A murder investigation is flipped inside out in Burak
Çevik’s second feature, a spellbinding and surprising work that questions
whether we can ever truly understand criminal motives. We begin in the present
as an unseen narrator recounts the assassination of his lover’s disapproving
mother, accompanied by hauntingly vacant images of urban alienation and garish
city lights; we then flash back to witness the first encounter between the
lovers-turned-accomplices, their mutual attraction and world-weariness emerging
across a sleepless night and morning after. Çevik imbues the proceedings with a
stylistic confidence and willingness to bend the conventions of cinematic form
to arrive at a complex, gripping double meditation on love and death.
KRALIÇE LEAR / QUEEN LEAR | 2019 PELIN ESMER
Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ travelling on the dusty and risky roads to the remotest forgotten villages in the mountains of Turkey where even drinking water can hardly reach, turns delicately into ‘Queen Lear’ in the hands of a peasant-women theatre group. In the early 2000s, a handful of peasant women from the mountains of southern Turkey formed a theater group, which later became the subject of the documentary, The Play. The women acted out their own life stories in the village, and the play changed their lives. Now, they take to the road with an adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear, traveling the dusty, dangerous roads to the farthest-flung mountain villages where there isn’t even running water. On the road, their lives merge with the world of King Lear and become bound up with “the good and the bad”, “the young and the old”, “the rich and the poor”, “the honest and the dishonest” of the play.
2020
BIR BASKADIR / ETHOS | 2020 BERKUN OYA
FRACTURED / ÇATLAK | 2020
FIKRET REYHAN
Migrant workers working in the UK as Fatih Ayhan still
running mate in the UK, has received large amounts of debt to send to his
family in Turkey. The payment of this debt even after the Conqueror’s return to
Turkey will be requested during a visit to the family by Ayhan from Turkey.
Claiming this debt ignites a wick within the family that lives in the same
building and with intertwined economic interests. All clashes between family
members come to the fore.
2021
ZUHAL | 2021 NAZLI ELIF DURLU
Zuhal is an upper middle class woman with a nice job and a
nice house in Istanbul, and a long-term relationship. Her ordinary life, spent
with daily troubles, business rushes and phone calls with her boy friend on a
trip, changes when she hears a cat meowing one night. Because of this meow,
which she believes is coming from a flat, she is forced to communicate with her
neighbors, whom she deliberately avoids. However, she cannot convince anyone of
the existence of this voice. In her debut, after three award-winning short
films, Nazli Elif Durlu tells the story of a strong female protagonist, with
dark humor and lively characters.
KURAK GÜNLER / BURNING DAYS | 2021 EMIN ALPER
Emre, a young and dedicated prosecutor, is newly appointed
to a small town hit by a water crisis and political scandals. After an initial
welcome, he experiences an increasing number of tense interactions and is
reluctantly dragged into local politics. When Emre forms a bond with the owner
of the local newspaper pressure escalates under heated rumors.
KERR | 2021 TAYFUN PIRSELIMOĞLU
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.
OKUL TIRAŞI / BROTHERS KEEPER 2021 FERIT KARAHAN
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 school's repressive authorities to try to
help his friend. But by the time the adults in charge finally understand the
seriousness of Memo's condition and try to get him to the hospital, the school
has been buried under a sudden, heavy snowfall. With no way out and now desperate
to reach help, teachers and pupils engage in a blame game where grudges,
feelings of guilt and hidden secrets emerge, as time ticks mercilessly on and
threatens to run out.
BENI SEVENLER LISTESI / THE LIST OF THOSE WHO LOVE ME | 2021
EMRE ERDOĞDU
IKI SAFAK ARASINDA / BETWEEN TWO DAWNS | 2011 SELMAN NACAR
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 the injured worker’s wife
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 the injured worker's wife.
OKUL TIRAŞI / BROTHER’S KEEPER | 2021 FERIT KARAHAN
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 school’s repressive authorities to try to
help his friend. But by the time the adults in charge finally understand the
seriousness of Memo’s condition and try to get him to the hospital, the school
has been buried under a sudden, heavy snowfall. With no way out and now desperate
to reach help, teachers and pupils engage in a blame game where grudges,
feelings of guilt and hidden secrets emerge, as time ticks mercilessly on and
threatens to run out.
2022
ÇILINGIR SOFRASI. / A NIGHT IN FOUR PARTS | 2022 ALI KEMAL
GÜVEN
TÜRKÇE PEKİYİ | 2022 MURAT BAYRAMOĞLU
SARDUNYA 2022 | CAGIL BOCUT
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.
Kurak Günler / Burning Days | 2022 Emin Alper
A pig hunt in the middle of town. With the mayoral election
approaching, the newly-appointed state prosecutor of a small Turkish town
suffering from a water supply crisis gradually descends into trouble after a
young local woman is raped.
2023
BURSA BÜLBÜLÜ/ THE NIGHTINGALE OF BURSA HAKAN ALGÜL
Cengiz, a Bursa tea garden singer, meets 'Taskin', who
borrows a cassette from his brother to start a Serafettin composition tape.
KURU OTLAR ÜSTÜNE / ABOUT DRY GRASSES | 2023 NURI BILGE
CEYLAN
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 will surface, his
hopes of escape fade and he descends further into an existential crisis.
HAYAT / LIFE | 2023 ZEKI DEMIRKUBUZ
This 2023 Turkish drama film was the Turkish entry for the
Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards.
2024
TEREDDÜT ÇIZGISI / HESITATION WOUND | 2024 SELMAN NACAR
A legal drama film
written and directed by Selman Nacar, which won the Best Film at the 43rd
Istanbul Film Festival and received international recognition.
HEMME’NIN ÖLDÜĞÜ GÜNLERDEN BIRI / ONE OF THOSE DAYS WHEN
HEMME DIES | 2024 MURAT FIRATOĞLU
This film won the Jury Special Award at the Venice Film
Festival and the Best Film at the International Adana Golden Boll Film
Festival.
MUKADDERAT / FATE | 2024 NADIM GÜÇ
This film won the Best Turkish Film at the Antalya Film
Festival and the Best Film Award Bosphorus Film Festival.
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