Directing

İsmail Güneş

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The İmam poster
5.9

A young and successful entrepreneur has difficulty in coming to terms with his religious upbringing. One day he is pushed into substitute for his ailing friend as the Imam of a small village.

The İmam

2005

Ateş Böceği poster
8.0

Duygu, who works as a translator at a translation agency, experiences loneliness with her doctor husband Yılmaz, although she does not know the exact reason why. The young woman takes refuge in her childhood to escape her inner conflicts and remembers the days when she and her brother Hâluk used to collect fireflies.

Ateş Böceği

1988

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bıçak Sırtı

2001

Where the Fire Burns poster
6.5

Where the Fire Burns is a road story. Ayse who unexpectedly gets sick is taken for an operation urgently. Her family shows a great solidarity for this operation to happen. During the operation, it is found out that the girl is fourteen weeks pregnant. After the successful operation Ayse doesn’t tell who the father of her baby is. The family who tried to ‘‘keep her alive” is now trying to ‘‘kill” her. Osman the father who takes the responsibility to kill her takes a trip with Ayse. While Osman is trying to find a way to poison his daughter, Ayse doesn’t know that she will be killed. This trip of father and daughter continues on getting to know each other and emotion of regret.

Where the Fire Burns

2012

Gülün Bittiği Yer poster
9.0

The film depicts the September 12 coup and the torture that took place at that time, telling the story of a young man who was arrested, tortured for days, and then released after it was determined that he was not guilty. After being released, the young man is returning to his hometown by train. During this return journey, flashbacks show the events from the day he met his fiancée until the day he was released. The young man believes that he lost himself during the torture and that his masculinity was taken from him. For this reason, he is afraid to return to his fiancée.

Gülün Bittiği Yer

1999

Gülün Bittiği Yer poster
9.0

The film depicts the September 12 coup and the torture that took place at that time, telling the story of a young man who was arrested, tortured for days, and then released after it was determined that he was not guilty. After being released, the young man is returning to his hometown by train. During this return journey, flashbacks show the events from the day he met his fiancée until the day he was released. The young man believes that he lost himself during the torture and that his masculinity was taken from him. For this reason, he is afraid to return to his fiancée.

Gülün Bittiği Yer

1999

Çizme poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Çizme

1993

Veysel Karani Hazretleri - Sonsuzluğun İki Yakası poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Veysel Karani Hazretleri - Sonsuzluğun İki Yakası

1993

Sacrifice poster
NR

There have been intense clashes between security forces and separatist terrorist elements on the southeastern border of our country for years. İbrahim’s only son İsmail, in his late forties, is doing his compulsory military service in this region and has 20 days left until his military service ends. Under these conditions, İbrahim, an asthmatic, lives in an old, dilapidated village house with his father İsmail. While he is dealing with a wild animal that is haunting his chickens and eggs, his only source of income, he also wants to hospitalize his father for treatment. Lack of money has caused a rift between him and his wife, and has left him unable to even buy a school notebook for his daughter.

Sacrifice

2023

Sacrifice poster
NR

There have been intense clashes between security forces and separatist terrorist elements on the southeastern border of our country for years. İbrahim’s only son İsmail, in his late forties, is doing his compulsory military service in this region and has 20 days left until his military service ends. Under these conditions, İbrahim, an asthmatic, lives in an old, dilapidated village house with his father İsmail. While he is dealing with a wild animal that is haunting his chickens and eggs, his only source of income, he also wants to hospitalize his father for treatment. Lack of money has caused a rift between him and his wife, and has left him unable to even buy a school notebook for his daughter.

Sacrifice

2023

Ahmed-i Bedevi Hazretleri - Can Perdesi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ahmed-i Bedevi Hazretleri - Can Perdesi

1993

No artwork available
NR

The film tells the epic struggle of Musa, who makes a living as a doorman in a big city, for the sake of a hadith. It brings to the fore the instructive contradictions we live with, the hypocrisy and indifference in human relationships. With his sometimes excessive sensitivity, Doorman Musa tries to convey the virtues that society needs.

Beşinci Boyut

1994

Sözün Bittiği Yer poster
5.8

Turgut is an actor who performs in school shows to support his son Umut, earning a living by clowning around at parties. Umut's mother, Simay, left him and started living with someone else, enjoying her life. One day, in the middle of a show, he receives a phone call informing him that Umut has fallen ill at school and been taken to the hospital. Umut is diagnosed with leukemia. Now Turgut has only one goal: to find the money needed for his son's treatment. Meanwhile, years later, Umut's mother Simay reappears, complicating matters further for Turgut.

Sözün Bittiği Yer

2007

Sözün Bittiği Yer poster
5.8

Turgut is an actor who performs in school shows to support his son Umut, earning a living by clowning around at parties. Umut's mother, Simay, left him and started living with someone else, enjoying her life. One day, in the middle of a show, he receives a phone call informing him that Umut has fallen ill at school and been taken to the hospital. Umut is diagnosed with leukemia. Now Turgut has only one goal: to find the money needed for his son's treatment. Meanwhile, years later, Umut's mother Simay reappears, complicating matters further for Turgut.

Sözün Bittiği Yer

2007

Caravan 1915 poster
NR

A Turkish mercenary and his men are hired to move 200 expelled Armenians from their coastal city to Aleppo during the 1915 forced relocation and genocide.

Caravan 1915

2017

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kara Bir Gün: Süleyman Nazif

1987