Cemal Şan

Directing

Cemal Şan

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Gülizar poster
8.8

Gülizar is a young and beautiful village girl. Against her will, she is betrothed to a young man from her village at her family's request. Her fiancé goes to Istanbul to work in order to earn a dowry. One day, Gülizar's fate suddenly changes with the arrival of a new teacher in the village. Gülizar secretly falls deeply in love with the teacher, İsmail. They eventually decide to marry. However, the teacher's death in an accident shatters Gülizar's world. Her fiancé returns to the village with the dowry money after some time. While Gülizar endures the immense pain of losing her beloved without being able to share it with anyone, she is forced to marry her fiancé. Yet Gülizar has become the woman of the young teacher she loves. Gülizar's father is caught between tradition and his daughter, as according to custom, her honor can only be cleansed by her death.

Gülizar

2004

Whistle If You Come Back poster
6.5

A dwarf and a transvestite, both are excluded from the society and doomed to exist at night. Their lives overlap in a strange encounter and this becomes the start of their friendship.

Whistle If You Come Back

1993

Ah Nalan Ah poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ah Nalan Ah

1997

Ali's Eight Days poster
6.5

Ali is a young man whose life passes as a routine between his house and the little shop he owns. Everything changes when she meets Zeynep, a girl who's recently moved to the neighbourhood.

Ali's Eight Days

2009

Ali's Eight Days poster
6.5

Ali is a young man whose life passes as a routine between his house and the little shop he owns. Everything changes when she meets Zeynep, a girl who's recently moved to the neighbourhood.

Ali's Eight Days

2009

Dilber'in Sekiz Günü poster
6.4

Dilber lives with her family in a very poor eastern village, her only dream is to marry her childhood lover, Ali. But when she finds out that it won't happen because of a reason that she can't get away with, she gets crazy and lock herself up in her family's barn. Then she makes everybody knows that she'll marry the first guy who proposes and won't leave the barn till that happens. One day, a limping man comes to the village. He's alone and has heard that there's a girl in that village who's ready to marry him.

Dilber'in Sekiz Günü

2009

Dilber'in Sekiz Günü poster
6.4

Dilber lives with her family in a very poor eastern village, her only dream is to marry her childhood lover, Ali. But when she finds out that it won't happen because of a reason that she can't get away with, she gets crazy and lock herself up in her family's barn. Then she makes everybody knows that she'll marry the first guy who proposes and won't leave the barn till that happens. One day, a limping man comes to the village. He's alone and has heard that there's a girl in that village who's ready to marry him.

Dilber'in Sekiz Günü

2009

A Little Cloud poster
NR

A young man, his wife, and their child move to Istanbul to start a new life. Since they don't have a home, the family starts staying with the man's uncle's son. However, the economic difficulties they face lead to the family being kicked out. The family embarks on a tough struggle to survive in this city where they are now on their own.

A Little Cloud

1990

The Pain poster
2.0

Nesrin has problems with government because of an organization she has involved with. She is searched by military. She escaped to her grandfather's house. They started to connect after all the years, they weren't together.

The Pain

2009

The Pain poster
2.0

Nesrin has problems with government because of an organization she has involved with. She is searched by military. She escaped to her grandfather's house. They started to connect after all the years, they weren't together.

The Pain

2009

Ali / Sakın Arkana Bakma poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ali / Sakın Arkana Bakma

1996

Ali / Sakın Arkana Bakma poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ali / Sakın Arkana Bakma

1996

Zeynep’s Eight Days poster
6.3

An isolated woman meets a stranger at a party and falls in love with him, but he suddenly disappears in the morning. While trying to find him, she gets worse.

Zeynep’s Eight Days

2007

Zeynep’s Eight Days poster
6.3

An isolated woman meets a stranger at a party and falls in love with him, but he suddenly disappears in the morning. While trying to find him, she gets worse.

Zeynep’s Eight Days

2007

Türkan poster
3.3

Türkan Saylan, fighting cancer with all her might, continues to help everyone she knows and doesn't know with every last ounce of energy she has. As her illness progresses, her eldest son Çınar, who lives in Germany and is also a doctor, comes to Istanbul with Saylan's grandson Timur. However, when he arrives at his mother's house in the morning, he finds a group of police officers at the door and a crowd of journalists surrounding the house. A search is being conducted at Saylan's house as part of an ongoing investigation ordered by the prosecutor's office. Timur is upset by his mother's indifferent attitude, and he is also annoyed by his brother Çağlayan's attempts to soften the atmosphere. Though both sons try to get through the day without causing their sick mother further exhaustion or harm, Türkan Saylan continues to worry about everyone else affected by the situation and reaches out to help from her sickbed...

Türkan

2011

Sonsuz poster
7.8

A portrayal of three cancer patients' struggle to hold on to life and their friendship.

Sonsuz

2009

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Köçek

2000

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Köçek

2000

Artık Çok Geç poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Artık Çok Geç

2000

Muhallebicinin Oğlu poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Muhallebicinin Oğlu

2000

Muhallebicinin Oğlu poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Muhallebicinin Oğlu

2000