Yüksel Aksu

Directing

Yüksel Aksu

Born 1966-01-01 · Muğla, Türkiye

Acting credits

About Dry Grasses poster
7.7

A young art teacher hopes to be transferred to Istanbul after completing his mandatory duty in a remote village school in Anatolia. After accusations of inappropriate contact with a student surface, his hopes of escape fade and he descends further into an existential crisis.

About Dry Grasses

2023

Hicran Sokağı poster
1.5

A neighborhood story with loves and fights.

Hicran Sokağı

2007

The Messenger poster
5.7

In a place where there is no time, a traveler comes to an unnamed village where we do not know where on the map. The weary traveler is a messenger. They have stories to tell, words to say.

The Messenger

2008

Çıngıraklı Top poster
5.0

While Semra and President Ahi are reading their local newspapers at the Boğaz Körler Derneği (Boğaz Blind Association), an interesting development takes place that will change their lives. The ministry has sent a fax announcing its intention to participate in the Chinese Paralympics. This fax causes quite a stir among the association members. While jokes about choosing sports like oil wrestling and weightlifting continue, Zeki, who has grown up with the help of the association members, utters the word "football" with the desire to be like the sighted children constantly running around with a ball, which seriousness the topic. The proposal is "Rattling Ball," or in other words, a football team for the blind.

Çıngıraklı Top

2009

Ecotopia poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ecotopia

2011

Güle Güle poster
7.1

Car mechanic Şemsi separated from his wife years ago and lives alone, far away from his only child. Celal is a disciplined retired colonel married to Zarife. İsmet is an introverted film buff who has spent his life on the island, while Galip is a faithful platonic lover who has lived a strange "love" with Rosa, a Cuban woman he saw only once, and has never betrayed this woman with whom he has been corresponding for years. Unable to afford to go to Cuba or bring Rosa there, Galip falls ill and learns he has cancer. His friends do everything they can to make him happy before he dies, even putting their homes up for sale. But when the money still isn't enough, there's only one thing left to do: To obtain the money needed to send Galip to Cuba, they decide to rob five charming elderly bankers!

Güle Güle

2000

Otlar Sararırken poster
NR

Watch the 3-part behind-the-scenes documentary of the Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award-winning film "On Dry Grass" while the grass is drying. It includes shooting stages, reading rehearsals, interviews with the cast and technical crew, photographs, and deleted scenes.

Otlar Sararırken

Karışık Pizza poster
7.3

Murat, who is not very attractive, is actually a naive person. His biggest dream is that the alternative universe, in which he imagines himself as an invincible hero.

Karışık Pizza

1998

Behind the camera

Bak Postacı Geliyor poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Bak Postacı Geliyor

2025

Bak Postacı Geliyor poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Bak Postacı Geliyor

2025

Iftar Soda poster
7.1

In early 1970s, Adem is a boy living in an Aegean village with his family. He just finished the primary school and he wants to work while he's on summer holiday. He gets permission from his family to work for a soda pop seller named Ciber Kemal. But the Ramadan has just came and Adem wants to do his fast while he's working. But he starts seeing hallucinations because of the hot summer day. It seems it's going to be the longest day of Adem.

Iftar Soda

2016

Iftar Soda poster
7.1

In early 1970s, Adem is a boy living in an Aegean village with his family. He just finished the primary school and he wants to work while he's on summer holiday. He gets permission from his family to work for a soda pop seller named Ciber Kemal. But the Ramadan has just came and Adem wants to do his fast while he's working. But he starts seeing hallucinations because of the hot summer day. It seems it's going to be the longest day of Adem.

Iftar Soda

2016

Iftar Soda poster
7.1

In early 1970s, Adem is a boy living in an Aegean village with his family. He just finished the primary school and he wants to work while he's on summer holiday. He gets permission from his family to work for a soda pop seller named Ciber Kemal. But the Ramadan has just came and Adem wants to do his fast while he's working. But he starts seeing hallucinations because of the hot summer day. It seems it's going to be the longest day of Adem.

Iftar Soda

2016

Lock poster
NR

Berna, a theater artist, struggles for the sake of acting only for art at a time when popular culture is dominant. Meanwhile, during a visit to a museum on 'The First Women of History', she is very impressed by the hand-painted portrait of Afife Jale, the first Muslim Turkish actress to appear on stage.

Lock

2007

Ice Cream, I Scream poster
6.3

Ali, who is ice cream salesman in Mugla, tries to survive in the face of fierce competition from the big ice cream brands. While trying to promote his ice cream, he tours the village with his brand new yellow ice cream motorbike. However the naugthy boys of the town who are chasing him to have free ice cream, steal the motorbike while he is away. Still repaying the debts for the loan on his motorbike, Ali becomes furious and accuses the big ice cream brands of stealing the car in order to destroy him. He starts investigating the theft of his motorbike asking one by one to the sellers of the big brands, while all along the naugthy boys are enjoying their free ice cream

Ice Cream, I Scream

2006

Ice Cream, I Scream poster
6.3

Ali, who is ice cream salesman in Mugla, tries to survive in the face of fierce competition from the big ice cream brands. While trying to promote his ice cream, he tours the village with his brand new yellow ice cream motorbike. However the naugthy boys of the town who are chasing him to have free ice cream, steal the motorbike while he is away. Still repaying the debts for the loan on his motorbike, Ali becomes furious and accuses the big ice cream brands of stealing the car in order to destroy him. He starts investigating the theft of his motorbike asking one by one to the sellers of the big brands, while all along the naugthy boys are enjoying their free ice cream

Ice Cream, I Scream

2006

Ecotopia poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ecotopia

2011

Ecotopia poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ecotopia

2011

Last Nomads in Anatolia: Sarikecilis poster
7.0

Sarikecilis are the last representatives in Anatolia of the centuries-old tradition of nomadism. Making their way to sea level in winter, and to the highlands in summer, they spend seven months of the year in transit, living off of the goats they keep. This documentary film is telling the story of the last Nomadic tribe in Anatolia within their natural habitat.

Last Nomads in Anatolia: Sarikecilis

2010

Last Nomads in Anatolia: Sarikecilis poster
7.0

Sarikecilis are the last representatives in Anatolia of the centuries-old tradition of nomadism. Making their way to sea level in winter, and to the highlands in summer, they spend seven months of the year in transit, living off of the goats they keep. This documentary film is telling the story of the last Nomadic tribe in Anatolia within their natural habitat.

Last Nomads in Anatolia: Sarikecilis

2010

Tears of Cem Karaca poster
7.2

Against a backdrop of political unrest in Turkey, this biopic charts the life of Anatolian rock singer Cem Karaca, focusing on his revolutionary ideals. Heightened emotions and moments of threat reflect the country's rising tensions.

Tears of Cem Karaca

2024

No artwork available
NR

Film tells about the tides of the time before and after September 12, in one individual's private. And while passing through one individual's history to the others's, the subject and the object, the heroism and vileness, the fear and the wisdom, the past and the present will be shaped in a new meaning(less).

Zamanin Labirentinde Karsilasma

1993

No artwork available
NR

Film tells about the tides of the time before and after September 12, in one individual's private. And while passing through one individual's history to the others's, the subject and the object, the heroism and vileness, the fear and the wisdom, the past and the present will be shaped in a new meaning(less).

Zamanin Labirentinde Karsilasma

1993