Özcan Alper

Sentenced to jail in 1997 as a university student aged 22, Yusuf is released on health grounds 10 years later. He returns to his village in the eastern Black Sea region, where he's welcomed only by his sick and elderly mother. It turns out that his father died while he was in jail and his older sister got married and moved away to the city. Economic factors mean that it's almost exclusively old people who live in the mountain village... (sonbaharfilm.com)

A collection of five short films that were shot in the Turkish province of Kars, on the Armenian border. (filmfestankara.org.tr)

Sumru is doing music researches at a university in Istanbul. To work on her thesis on gathering and recording an exhaustive collection of Anatolian elegies she sets off for the south-east of the country for a few months. The brief trip turns out to be the longest journey of her life. (imdb)

Aram, an Armenian painter and poet, life in Istanbul is growing more dangerous day by day because of his opposite opinions. In the winter 1943, he flees to the Georgian border, where Mikhail and his young wife Meryem give him shelter in the forest. But the city-dwelling intellectual can't handle life in the woods. He's scared and feels lost in nature.

Film, Doğu Kaçkarlar'da 3000 metre irtifada, Artvin ile Ardahan sınırındaki Susuzyurt yaylasında çekildi. (sinematurk.com)

Twelve-year-old Yusuf lives in Kars and cycles to school, every day. Despite taking a lengthy amount of time, the commute offers him the chance to see Leyla.

The story of Heves Ali, a folk music singer and his son Yusuf, a lawyer. Based on Kemal Varol's 2019 novel of the same name.

Becoming part of a collective anger, Ishak copes with his conscience in a small village in Anatolia and struggles with the violence of collective silence.