Emrullah Çakay

A magical realist, inner drama about a soldier who, when negotiating a minefield steps on a landmine and in his inner turmoil, he imagines he encounters a mirror that is a gateway into one very specific memory.

Sait, a man committed to his faith, has turned his back on the material world. This peaceful existence is shattered by a news story he sees on television and a municipal worker who comes knocking on his door in the middle of the night.

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.

The story of her grandmother’s old suitcase moves Hazal to understand her kurdish families past and carry on the legacy.

It is near future story in Anatolia. There is no indication of time and place, an post-apocalyptic world that ruled over by primitive technology. Zait, a loyal mine worker who works for a mine factory which is managed by unknowns, declares war against the factory.

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.

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Turkish director Ali Vatansever weighs the human cost of politically motivated urban renewal in his achingly resonant second feature, about a young couple forced to compromise their ideals and work for the very industry encroaching on their Istanbul neighbourhood, in order to keep up with the rent.

Musa lives with his father, Beko, in rural Turkey. Beko, struggling to make ends meet by assisting in rabbit-hound races, is lured by the promise of a government disability pension for Musa if he can prove his son's “disability” with a medical report. To pass as disabled, Musa must learn to mimic the mannerisms of people with physical disabilities from Nergis, a girl his age. Together, the two children form an enduring friendship as they navigate their plight.

Arif has to take care of his father, who is bedridden and has diabetes. The change of his lover's ideas about life, forces Arif to make a choice between the life of his father, who had left him, and his journey to freedom.