Elit İşcan

Acting

Elit İşcan

Born

1994-01-12 (32)

Place of birth

İstanbul, Türkiye

Known for

Acting

Credits

31 titles

Elit İşcan (born 12 January 1994) is a Turkish actress. Her credits include the film Mustang and the television show Küçük Kadınlar. She has received the IFFI Best Actor Award (Female) at the 46th International Film Festival of India.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 7 titles

Yellow Letters poster
7.1

The marriage of Derya and Aziz is under pressure after losing their jobs because of state arbitrariness and moving to Istanbul to live with Aziz's parents. They and their 13-year-old daughter Ezgi have to redefine their way of life.

Yellow Letters

2026

Baumbacher Syndrome poster
4.8

Late-night talk show host Max Baumbacher turns world-famous after waking up with an unusually deep, almost magical voice.

Baumbacher Syndrome

2021

Afloat poster
4.5

Zeynep arrives from New York to a small town on the coast of Turkey with her American husband. She returns to a family that is broken- parents who are divorced and a younger sister who has become estranged. The troubled family embarks on a week-long sailing trip, meant to be a last chance for Zeynep’s father Yusuf, a dissident journalist being prosecuted by the government, to reconnect with his daughters before going to prison.

Afloat

2023

I'm Here, I'm Fine poster
NR

Filiz, a young, working mother, struggles with postpartum depression. Seeking moments of escape, she sets out to buy ‘a car of her own.’ Along the way, Filiz meets Şule, and her search for a car turns into an unexpected bond, offering both women a chance at solidarity.

I'm Here, I'm Fine

2025

When We Saw Each Other More Often poster
NR

Flora leaves. Antonis gets left behind. Elit moves in. Benni and Caro can’t seem to move on. In the classrooms, cafes, bars and train stations of an unnamed German city, the lives of several young people intersect.

When We Saw Each Other More Often

2026

Forty Candles poster
NR

Derya, an academic, is in denial about her feelings for Esma, the daughter of the caretaker in her apartment building. Wavering between fantasy and reality, Derya’s relationship with Esma has reached the end of the line.

Forty Candles

2020

We Are a Family poster
NR

Haluk, an incompetent factory owner, competes with his wife and skillful operations manager Güler. As the power crisis between the husband and wife escalates, someone unexpected will suffer from it in a most tragic way.

We Are a Family

2020

2010s · 12 titles

Mustang poster
7.7

In a Turkish village, five orphaned sisters live under strict rule while members of their family prepare their arranged marriages.

Mustang

2015

Sibel poster
6.7

25-year-old Sibel lives with her father and sister in a secluded village in the mountains of Turkey’s Black Sea region. Sibel is a mute, but she communicates by using the ancestral whistled language of the area.

Sibel

2019

Mold poster
6.5

Basri, 55 year old, every day walks for miles along the tracks working as a railroad watchman. His nagging thought is finding his son. Eighteen years ago, while the boy was studying at the university in Istanbul, the police took him into custody for antigovernment activities. Then, he mysteriously disappeared.

Mold

2013

The Raft poster
5.0

In this stylish and ruthless satire, a famous performance artist faces an unexpected crisis when real-world political matters complicate her latest impeccably provocative and eminently bankable piece.

The Raft

2019

Put to the Things poster
3.8

The already complex connections of a group of artists living in İstanbul’s Cihangir district are becoming bizarre because of a camcorder entering their lives. A narcissistic director in which all the women are in love, two roommates connected by cable, a theater scene that can turn into a morgue concurrently, a nurse who resurrects the dead people, and a drug dealer who has no arms, sometimes the right, sometimes the left, sometimes both arms; these are protagonists of the experimental narrative that Onur Ünlü plays with time and space.

Put to the Things

2018

Once Upon a Time... MUSTANG poster
4.5

This 2015 documentary by Amine Mestari delves deep into Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s film MUSTANG, featuring extensive interviews with the director and cast, as well as exploring the film in the context of the politically volatile situation in Turkey.

Once Upon a Time... MUSTANG

2018

The Pillar of Salt poster
5.0

A reclusive woman in her thirties leads a life frozen in time in a cave-like room. In her rare trips to the city, she chats with an oarswoman haunted by the devils. She searches for her twin sister in unfrequented corners of the city. In this journey in which time and space are out of joint, a same dream is recounted time after time.

The Pillar of Salt

2018

When Shall the Light Find My Eyes poster
NR

The sparse scene is a glimpse into a relationship between two women. Moody and confused, we see mixed emotions intercut with the movement of two women's relationship as metaphor.

When Shall the Light Find My Eyes

2016

Dancing Girls poster
4.0

In a summer town, two best friends wake up to their last day together as one of them is moving abroad.

Dancing Girls

2018

Taş Mektep poster
5.2

Symbolizing the turning point occurred in the Battle of Sakarya in Turkish-Greek War, tells one of the most moving stories.

Taş Mektep

2012

Kaledeki Yalnızlık poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Kaledeki Yalnızlık

2011

Lost in the Post poster
4.0

An essay on the possibilities and impossibilities of communication within the new age communication systems, the places we take shelter in the digital world, love ventures and all of these.

Lost in the Post

2011

2000s · 2 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera