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.
When Lady Winsley, the famous American novelist, is discovered dead on the remote Turkish island of Büyükada, the great detective Fergün is sent from Istanbul to solve the murder case. With the help of Azra, the beautiful local hotel tenant, he must confront stubborn members of the island...
A Turkish coastal town, in 1990: The unexpected visit of his long lost brother Asaf disturbs Azmi Arifoglu. 40 years ago Asaf was a prisoner of war, and Azmi managed to let him pronounce dead to marry his fiancée Nevin. After Nevin's decision to live with Asaf, Azmi feels his honor insulted. The...
Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, set in Istanbul, the tragic story of three heroes chasing an unlikely dream, running towards their sad end in a Shakespearean manner.
In an apartment building where neighbors, friends, and family are living in close quarters, three male protagonists encounter three phases of manhood in Turkish society. Directors Reha Erdem's light touch and slyly amusing style do not miss the opportunity to illuminate some serious points in a...
Leyla, a beautiful and feisty middle-aged woman, lives with her mother, whose nagging has become everyday background music. The two women fight shamelessly and cruelly, and in protest against her mother Leyla makes choices that even she herself finds a bit startling. Ahmet is a taxi driver, years...
After Turkey’s february 1997 military intervention, Hilal and Fatma left their town to study at university in Istanbul. Feza lives downstairs in their lodgings, has fled as village where was cruelly bullied for being a transgender woman. Hilal chooses to help Feza and Fatma.
A young man gets involved in a traffic accident at midnight and is brought to the police station to be questioned. After getting the news, his mother and father immediately come to the police station. The father, who prevents his son from exhaling into the breathalyser, tries to save his son by...
Sadık's past mistakes cause his family to fall apart. Burdened with regret all his life, Sadık's world changes when his new neighbors, Defne and her mother Lale, move into the apartment across from him.
Aspiring actress Gülşah is preparing for the auditions of an acting school. She also volunteers for a theatre and one day she is sexually assaulted by famous actor Levent, who is also a jury member for the audition she is preparing. Daily reality and the reality of the theatre world flow into...