Directing

Sinan Kesova

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Diamond Sea poster
4.0

Jale, a free-spirited street vendor in her late thirties, roams around the forsaken shores of the Bosphorus. She crosses paths with heartbroken teenagers, an obnoxious admirer, exorcists, exhibitionists, fellow street sellers, fisherwomen and treasure-hunters. Like frogs gathered around a pond, they only have each other––and the timeworn, yet still glittering, Diamond Sea.

The Diamond Sea

2021

The Grand Siege poster
5.0

Berna Tuna, a renowned academic has just died. Her husband, Macit, will take this opportunity to face past wrongdoings and reconnect with his long-neglected daughter İpek. His hope for a fresh start is put to test by his son Alp and his wife’s assistant Feyza, who are strongly attached to Berna’s legacy.

The Grand Siege

2024

The Grand Siege poster
5.0

Berna Tuna, a renowned academic has just died. Her husband, Macit, will take this opportunity to face past wrongdoings and reconnect with his long-neglected daughter İpek. His hope for a fresh start is put to test by his son Alp and his wife’s assistant Feyza, who are strongly attached to Berna’s legacy.

The Grand Siege

2024

The Grand Siege poster
5.0

Berna Tuna, a renowned academic has just died. Her husband, Macit, will take this opportunity to face past wrongdoings and reconnect with his long-neglected daughter İpek. His hope for a fresh start is put to test by his son Alp and his wife’s assistant Feyza, who are strongly attached to Berna’s legacy.

The Grand Siege

2024

The Knights' Templar poster
3.0

Three old acquaintances debate different interpretations of the Koran, Christian sects, their lives, and life after death in a tiny, cramped neighborhood barber shop.

The Knights' Templar

2018

Future poster
NR

Gelecek (aka. Future) takes its viewer through two days in the life of Deniz, an unemployed young man living with his grandfather Orhan in the metropolis of Istanbul. In their daily struggles, both challenge each other's views on existence, being, and the future. The film deals with themes of inertia and loneliness.

Future

2015

Future poster
NR

Gelecek (aka. Future) takes its viewer through two days in the life of Deniz, an unemployed young man living with his grandfather Orhan in the metropolis of Istanbul. In their daily struggles, both challenge each other's views on existence, being, and the future. The film deals with themes of inertia and loneliness.

Future

2015

Tulliana poster
6.0

Two zoologists seeking the extinct Anatolian panther search for its traces in the deep forests of Anatolia. Veysel believes the almost mythical panther embodies something beyond an animal, an element that Anatolian people have lost and are still looking for. For Emre, only the idea of photographing the absent Anatolian panther excites him. They manage to capture an obscure image of the large cat, but they can’t prove it is the panther’s. The two friend are surprised and disturbed when they see stuffed panthers at the offices of some bureaucrats. A secret Veysel reveals to Emre in Hacıbektaş changes both of them. Will searching for something non-existent destroy them, too?

Tulliana

2024

Hinterlant poster
NR

The sale of an inherited house results in an unspoken tension between Cigdem and Kerim, a couple in their late thirties, to which their daughter does not seem indifferent.

Hinterlant

2017

Hinterlant poster
NR

The sale of an inherited house results in an unspoken tension between Cigdem and Kerim, a couple in their late thirties, to which their daughter does not seem indifferent.

Hinterlant

2017