Derya Durmaz

Liberation Day is getting close in a typical West Anatolian town with two stored wooden houses, a square and narrow streets. A bunch of locals are gathered to form a choir, to perform classical Turkish music in the celebrations... (cinlilergeliyor.com)

Sivan, at around the age of 20, is a native of the Southeastern region of Anatolia. His father Saho is the leader of the Givdanli tribe who stays distant both to the state and to the insurgents who are influent in the region, in order to secure its existence. One day, Sivan meets with the girl he loves, Berfin in a field around the village. The same day the field is burnt by saboteurs and the whole harvest of the village is wasted... (imdb)

Observing one day in the life of a family from south-eastern Turkey, this is the sad story of a young woman who is forcefully married to her sister's husband. Blaming herself for the death of his brother by a landmine, Delal commits suicide. Seven years after the incident, Heda, the younger sister of Delal and Celil, is married to her sister's husband and acts a new mother to her niece. In the meantime, Heda's mother Cemile is suffering a deepening depression, which no one even notices. (IKSV)

Hamdi lives alone and works as a wigmaker in Tarlabasi in central Istanbul. All he has to his name is an old jaloppy of a car. He spends his days and nights in his shop which is also his home, watching the cars go by and the prostitute working her beat across the street. He knows he has terminal cancer and his only wish is to travel somewhere outside of Turkey before he dies. (aksav.org.tr)

Love and Revolution is a story that puts the years of youth at its center. These are the years in which humankind feels the sense of belonging, the urge to take root in life in the strongest way. This is a period in which the existing identities are not adequate and all kinds of thirst (intellectual, sexual, psychological, political, etc.) disturb the existence. The kernel of the sense of youth, which gives the movie its spirit, is desire. (imdb)

For Deniz and her family, the end of summer marks the return to the rhythms of middle-class life. Children go back to school, friends reunite, men return to their shops and women start their work on local events. Deniz and her friends start thinking about a university, a career and the possibility of having a life of their own. Every decision, friend, crush and responsibility starts acquiring a new gravity, manifest themselves in subtle ways.

Nehir fell in love with Ozan before she saw him. Then they meet and Nehir try to change Ozan's life. But Ozan's past will not to leave him in peace.

A Turkish drama series.

Tolga Özakın is a writer who writes science-fiction novels. Nightmares go to her house after she leaves her lover. Coincidentally, he hears someone else's voice on the tape recorder he left open at night. He will prepare a trap and wait for them to find out what they are.

Elaha, 22, believes she must restore her supposed innocence before she weds. A surgeon could reconstruct her hymen but she cannot afford such an operation. She asks herself: why does she have to be a virgin anyway, and for whom?