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Elif Nur Kayalar

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Carnation poster
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A mother tells her daughter the fairy tale of a little girl named Karanfil Kız to help her fall asleep. According to the tale, Karanfil Kız goes to the cinema with her father, but she falls asleep in the movie theater. When she wakes up, she learns that her father is missing and begins to search for him.

Carnation

2026

Carnation poster
NR

A mother tells her daughter the fairy tale of a little girl named Karanfil Kız to help her fall asleep. According to the tale, Karanfil Kız goes to the cinema with her father, but she falls asleep in the movie theater. When she wakes up, she learns that her father is missing and begins to search for him.

Carnation

2026

Carnation poster
NR

A mother tells her daughter the fairy tale of a little girl named Karanfil Kız to help her fall asleep. According to the tale, Karanfil Kız goes to the cinema with her father, but she falls asleep in the movie theater. When she wakes up, she learns that her father is missing and begins to search for him.

Carnation

2026

Foka poster
NR

Dr. Dimitri Foka, a Greek doctor from Turkey, survives a Nazi execution in Greece during World War II thanks to his Turkish passport. After graduating, he returns to his hometown, the island of Imroz (Gökçeada), part of Turkey, and becomes the island’s only doctor for many years. Following the Cyprus problem in 1964, state policies targeting the Greek population lead to dispossession, violence, and forced migration on the island, yet Foka refuses to leave.

Foka

2026

There's No Such Place Called Allianoi poster
NR

Allianoi, one of the world's best-preserved ancient health centres, was discovered during excavations and later submerged by the construction of a dam in Pergamon, Türkiye. The project gave rise to one of Türkiye's first large-scale civil resistance movements, decades of legal battles and political decisions that shaped the site's fate. For local farmers, the dam promised reliable irrigation after years of waiting. Through personal testimonies, archival materials, animation and footage filmed on location, the documentary tracks a conflict in which cultural heritage and everyday survival became impossible to separate.

There's No Such Place Called Allianoi

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