Banu Fotocan

Acting

Banu Fotocan

Born

1971-01-01 (55)

Place of birth

Istanbul, Turkey

Known for

Acting

Credits

29 titles

Known for

Far Away poster
8.4

Alya Albora arrives in Mardin with her late husband’s funeral and their five-year-old son to fulfill her husband’s last will. However, this arrival marks a point of no return, and there is no way out of Albora. The head of the Albora tribe, Cihan Albora, is not indifferent to Alya’s struggles, but he refuses to let her take her child and leave. Confronting the darkness of the past, hidden secrets, and the harsh realities of the region, Alya Albora finds herself caught in a fierce struggle with her late husband’s family.

Far Away

2024

Falling Leaves poster
5.9

Yaprak Dökümü is an award-winning Turkish television series based on the novel of the same name by Reşat Nuri Güntekin. The series premiered on 13 September 2005 on Kanal D, and endеd its fifth and final season on 29 December 2010, comprising 174 episodes overall. The show is set in Istanbul, Turkey, and it revolves around the fictional family Tekin, which their arrival in Istanbul tears their family apart, and transforms them in a way they can't imagine.

Falling Leaves

2006

Mahsun J poster
7.8

Mahsun is a motorcycle courier in Istanbul. While searching for a way out of his life filled with debt, he accidentally discovers his "greatest" talent and decides to become a GIGOLO. Her manager will be her friend Leyla, who is a failed advertising executive.

Mahsun J

2024

Halka poster
8.9

Two men unite against a criminal conspiracy, pursuing a dark past of notebooks, cases, and lies. They face the mafia, money, intrigue, and the terrifying Halka.

Halka

2019

Dogu poster
7.0

Doğu is a 2021 Turkish absurdist comedy-drama created by and starring stand-up comedian Doğu Demirkol, loosely inspired by his own life. The series follows Doğu — a young man who fails at practically everything — as he stubbornly chases his dream of becoming a comedian, with little support from those around him. Sharp, self-aware, and packed with observational humor, it's a refreshingly original Turkish comedy about ambition, failure, and the relentless pursuit of a dream.

Dogu

2021

Letters from the Past poster
5.2

When a young woman discovers a long-buried secret about her past, she must trace back a collection of letters to their writers to uncover the truth.

Letters from the Past

2025

Film credits

2020s · 7 titles

The Criminals poster
6.3

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.

The Criminals

2022

Uncle: The Story of a Man poster
5.9

Sent away by his exasperated family to work for the village coffeehouse owner Seyfi in Istanbul, the brave, compassionate, and justice-driven young hero is drawn into the city’s underworld of toughs.

Uncle: The Story of a Man

2021

Unfruitful Times poster
5.7

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.

Unfruitful Times

2024

Between Two Dawns poster
6.4

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

Between Two Dawns

2021

We Are Happy poster
4.2

Close friends Ferhat and Aslı realize that they need to be together after they are abandoned by their lovers. In the third year of their marriage, things are no longer going well. Ferhat tells Aslı that they are going on vacation and takes Aslı to a hotel for couples therapy, hoping to improve their relationship.

We Are Happy

2023

Miracle poster
3.0

After losing her home and all that she's known, a widowed Turkish woman finds herself in an unexpected love affair with a young Syrian refugee in Istanbul.

Miracle

2022

Actually Everyone poster
NR

Cafer, the only resident in the apartment building unaffected by the foul odor that emerges, begins to feel increasingly isolated and insecure.

Actually Everyone

2025

2010s · 11 titles

The Blue Wave poster
3.2

Deniz and her friends, who have been apart for the summer, have much to tell each other. While adults are busy with their professional lives, Deniz and her friends are still confused about their university plans. Through the worries of their daily routines, they make plans for the future, yet the challenges of teenage years/adolescence are burdensome. Deniz desires a life that is different than the ideals of her friends. A song nobody has heard of, a hopeless love, solitude. A different world, but where exactly?

The Blue Wave

2013

Breath poster
4.0

Tamer, reliant on friends to navigate life, Aslı, aimless and living with family while tending to a sick neighbor, and Celil, an ordinary caregiver emotionally detached but devoted to his patients until death, cross paths in a poignant exploration of interdependence and survival.

Breath

2019

Passed by Censor poster
6.2

In the heart of Istanbul's prison, Zakir controls the letters prisoners receive. His average day is spent between the censorship office, his colleagues and his evening writing class. For a writing assignment, he steals a photo from one of the letters, in which appears Selma, an inmate's wife. More than an inspiration, she becomes an obsession for Zakir. He observes her, makes up stories, and imagines the worst to the extent that he puts himself at great risk.

Passed by Censor

2019

Beyond the Hill poster
6.8

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.

Beyond the Hill

2012

Sivas poster
7.5

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.

Sivas

2014

All The Bliss Is Possible poster
6.0

Studying engineering and dreaming to go abroad with the Erasmus project to leave behind his small town, Ali is going through a period of self-exploration, asking questions about life. His quiet life is stirred up upon his crush to Gülce, a singer at a folk music cafe. Gülce is a nursing student and to get by, she works as a caregiver to a lonely, elder man in one of the older neighbourhoods of the town. As Ali gets to know Gülce, he becomes involved in the old man’s story too. Ali goes on his search on the threshold of this encounter, asking a question to which he wouldn’t find an answer to: is any happiness possible?

All The Bliss Is Possible

2017

Aydede poster
5.4

Losing his father at a very young age, Bekir lives with his mother Rabia and grandfather İlyas, who jointly run a haberdashery store. When İlyas passes away, to spare him grief young Bekir is told that “his beloved grandfather has gone to the moon and become Grandpa Moon.”

Aydede

2018

Çetin Ceviz 2 poster
NR

Hatice, who was considered unlucky by everyone, finally found the love she was looking for and married Tahsin. On their wedding night, the newlyweds rush back to the village upon hearing the news of Tahsin's father's death. The announcement of his father's will causes everyone a second shock, as he had left his entire estate to Tahsin. Tahsin's relationship with his siblings and the villagers, which was already strained, deteriorates further after this news. However, there is a buried treasure that no one knows about, and the siblings set out to find it. Tahsin and Hatice, on the other hand, decide to use the inheritance they have been left with in a surprising way after everything they have been through.

Çetin Ceviz 2

2016

The Pillar of Salt poster
5.0

A reclusive woman in her thirties leads a life frozen in time in a cave-like room. In her rare trips to the city, she chats with an oarswoman haunted by the devils. She searches for her twin sister in unfrequented corners of the city. In this journey in which time and space are out of joint, a same dream is recounted time after time.

The Pillar of Salt

2018

Imperfect poster
7.0

Dilara decides to go out that night. Although not having any issues with her existence till the day, Dilara starts finding flaws in herself after she was faced with a barrage of criticism from her flatmate Kübra about her apparel as she was getting ready to go out. Questioning and comparing herself with any woman she comes across or any woman embedded in her mind for any reason continuously drives Dilara towards a damaged self-esteem. A surprise ending awaits Dilara who gets back home late at night, exhausted with all these thoughts.

Imperfect

2019

Vanished Into Blue poster
7.0

A room, an old couch, a dining table, a TV, an old heater and a mirror right next to it. In the room the woman prepares dinner for her husband. The camera enters the room gently and we witness the couple's troubled marriage.

Vanished Into Blue

2012

2000s · 3 titles

My Only Sunshine poster
6.9

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. But Hayat has an instinct for survival. Her capacity for courage, endurance and hope in the face of these trials suggest that there is Life despite the manifold injustices of an unjust world.

My Only Sunshine

2009

Dark Cloud poster
NR

While fathers usually guide their sons through life crises, things go the other way around in this independent comedy-drama from Turkey. Adnan (Reha Özcan) has been a widower for nearly five years, but he acts as if his wife passed only a few weeks ago; he's been trapped in a deep funk for years and has become emotionally unavailable to his teenage son Burak (Kamer Celenk). Adnan doesn't fare much better with the rest of the world, and a long series of screw-ups leads to him losing his job as a parking lot attendant and being named in a lawsuit. While Burak has already moved out of the house and is living with sympathetic relatives, he decides he needs his father back and sets out to free Adnan from his doldrums, though that's more easily said than done

Dark Cloud

2009

Hidden Faces poster
NR

Complex and intriguing Turkish drama about revenge killing. A young woman who went into hiding from her family talks about her life in a documentary. An uncle who sees the film in Germany won't let it rest .

Hidden Faces

2007

Series credits

Far Away poster
8.4

Alya Albora arrives in Mardin with her late husband’s funeral and their five-year-old son to fulfill her husband’s last will. However, this arrival marks a point of no return, and there is no way out of Albora. The head of the Albora tribe, Cihan Albora, is not indifferent to Alya’s struggles, but he refuses to let her take her child and leave. Confronting the darkness of the past, hidden secrets, and the harsh realities of the region, Alya Albora finds herself caught in a fierce struggle with her late husband’s family.

Far Away

2024

Falling Leaves poster
5.9

Yaprak Dökümü is an award-winning Turkish television series based on the novel of the same name by Reşat Nuri Güntekin. The series premiered on 13 September 2005 on Kanal D, and endеd its fifth and final season on 29 December 2010, comprising 174 episodes overall. The show is set in Istanbul, Turkey, and it revolves around the fictional family Tekin, which their arrival in Istanbul tears their family apart, and transforms them in a way they can't imagine.

Falling Leaves

2006

Mahsun J poster
7.8

Mahsun is a motorcycle courier in Istanbul. While searching for a way out of his life filled with debt, he accidentally discovers his "greatest" talent and decides to become a GIGOLO. Her manager will be her friend Leyla, who is a failed advertising executive.

Mahsun J

2024

Halka poster
8.9

Two men unite against a criminal conspiracy, pursuing a dark past of notebooks, cases, and lies. They face the mafia, money, intrigue, and the terrifying Halka.

Halka

2019

Dogu poster
7.0

Doğu is a 2021 Turkish absurdist comedy-drama created by and starring stand-up comedian Doğu Demirkol, loosely inspired by his own life. The series follows Doğu — a young man who fails at practically everything — as he stubbornly chases his dream of becoming a comedian, with little support from those around him. Sharp, self-aware, and packed with observational humor, it's a refreshingly original Turkish comedy about ambition, failure, and the relentless pursuit of a dream.

Dogu

2021

Letters from the Past poster
5.2

When a young woman discovers a long-buried secret about her past, she must trace back a collection of letters to their writers to uncover the truth.

Letters from the Past

2025

Kayıp Şehir poster
8.0

What is happening in Istanbul's back streets? Which lives are flowing, in the shadow of poverty? Women, gypsies, transvestites, street children each are victims of another discrimination. A typical Black Sea family connected to each other will meet with people who are trying to cling to the loneliness of life in this neighborhood where they will be forced to survive after their migration to Istanbul.

Kayıp Şehir

2012

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