Sinan Yusufoglu

Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has been barred from leaving the country, arrives at a village on the Iran-Turkey border to supervise a film based on a real-life couple seeking passports to Europe being shot in Turkey, but both his stay and the production run into trouble.

Beril wanders the streets of Istanbul. A budding actress, she heads to meet a producer to pitch an ambitious, deeply personal film project. Friends, lovers, and other figures cross her path as we discover what lies behind the city's facades and the people within it.

Turkish modern and contemporary art, by the West, is considered as Middle Eastern, but when it’s viewed from our own land, it is seen as Western. Our position as a bridge between the East and the West is not only geographical, but also cultural; and this bridge has been a home for many great civilizations throughout the history. This rich cultural heritage and diversity is the foundation of Turkish modern and contemporary art. Approaching the western world with a more realistic perspective has turned the gaze of Turkish artists to their own land, history, people and tradition. Additionally, the personal statement tendencies of new generation artists have developed their own expression and communication methods instead of emulating the current art developments in the West.

Having fled the war in Syria, Hanna and her young brother Nader are living in a run-down neighbourhood of Istanbul. Hanna's dreams and identity clash when she meets Ibo.

1930s Anatolia. As an architect struggles to build the first crematorium, she gets entangled in the hunt for a serial killer and a dark web of political blackmail.

Turkish modern and contemporary art, by the West, is considered as Middle Eastern, but when it’s viewed from our own land, it is seen as Western. Our position as a bridge between the East and the West is not only geographical, but also cultural; and this bridge has been a home for many great civilizations throughout the history. This rich cultural heritage and diversity is the foundation of Turkish modern and contemporary art. Approaching the western world with a more realistic perspective has turned the gaze of Turkish artists to their own land, history, people and tradition. Additionally, the personal statement tendencies of new generation artists have developed their own expression and communication methods instead of emulating the current art developments in the West.

Having fled the war in Syria, Hanna and her young brother Nader are living in a run-down neighbourhood of Istanbul. Hanna's dreams and identity clash when she meets Ibo.

1930s Anatolia. As an architect struggles to build the first crematorium, she gets entangled in the hunt for a serial killer and a dark web of political blackmail.