Nazan Kesal

A photographer who is haunted by the feeling that the gap between his life and his ideals is growing finds himself obliged to put up in his apartment a young relative who has left behind his village looking for a job aboard a ship in Istanbul to go abroad.

A gorgeous rumination on the fragility and complexity of human relationships. (Zeitgeist Films)

Musa's mother dies, yet he acts unaffected. When a coworker, a woman for whom Musa has no passion, asks to marry him, he agrees with his shoulders shrugged. But when Musa is tried and found guilty of a crime that he did not commit, his passivity and fatalism are taken to truly absurd levels. (imdb)

The film was inspired by the third page news, focusing on scandal, family tragedies and sexual escapades gone wrong in Turkey's lower class. 'Vicdan' takes us to rural Turkey, to the impending doom of a love triangle. (Turkish Daily News)

The story takes us back to the 17th century Istanbul, and the powerful times of the Ottoman Empire under the rule of Sultan Murad IV. Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi, Logari Celebi, Bekri Mustafa and Evliya Celebi are four good friends who do research to enable human beings to fly. (imdb)

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)

Mrs. Cazibe's day dreams

In the hard-boiled world, where will the soft-shelled end up? A cozy kind of extermination is on the stage and keeping a low profile. The decadence around us is nothing less than clandestine annihilation of the civil man. Yet it is carried out so well with a grinning face, it is officially sold as transition. (imdb)

An unhappy middle-class marriage

Dramatic love story between two college student.

Two resentful, singer brothers take a journey with their dead father's old car in order to carry out his bequest which is to sing at a wedding in Urla.

Nesrin and Hatun are two Kurdish cleaning women living in Istanbul. While Nesrin tries to survive with her little daughter, trying to understand why her husband left her, Hatun dreams of buying a house in the district where they clean. (imdb)

A thirty year old woman, Hasret, has been seeing the same nightmare for some time. Through recurring nightmares, a question creeps into her mind: Is it possible that her parents did not die in a car crash? (imdb)

Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, set in Istanbul, the tragic story of three heroes chasing an unlikely dream, running towards their sad end in a Shakespearean manner. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

Two different young men coming together from different places stand side by side and fight against a conspiracy. They go after a past that doesn't leave behind. They bring to account of old notebooks, dirty cases, big and small lies. They're in a life with the Mafia, money, intrigue. They face against Halka, the terrifying face of which they have yet to know. (imdb)

Being the daughter of a prostitute mother, Akca gives up her motherhood in order to give her child a better future. The bride of a wealthy family, Sule promises to be a mother to Akca's baby for a lifetime. She looks at the baby she named Efe and raises him. Things change with the birth of Sule's own child. (imdb)

Ercan Kesal's debut feature, a one-day tragicomic story of doctor Kemal, who wants to become a candidate for Istanbul's Beyoglu district mayor. He is trying every way to become a candidate. Unexpected events will occur that night. (imdb)

A young couple who dreams of marriage conceal their identity to escape from the darned. They will introduce themselves as sibling and work in the farm in Adana. (imdb)

The story of Fazilet, Hazan and Ece.

A realistic look at the back streets of Istanbul.

A series of 8 episodes, based on Aziz Nesin's book.

Adapted from the same named novel by Refik Halit Karay.

Vedat informs the six participants that they will die on the same day and wants to follow their behavior. Six participants, who think that they will die soon, try to cope with death in their own way by giving different reactions. (imdb)

When a suburban man receives messages that seem to predict the future, he develops a following - and powerful enemies. (imdb)

The improbable romance between Inci, raised by a love-averse mother, and Uygar. A family consisting of a mother and three sisters who harbor animosity towards love. (imdb)

The film tells the story of Deniz, who tries to cope with the feelings of anger, fear and guilt that resurface in her hometown, where she returns to her widowed mother's wedding.