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Aslında Herkes (2025)
Character: Hamiyet
Cafer, the only resident in the apartment building unaffected by the foul odor that emerges, begins to feel increasingly isolated and insecure.
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Maruf (2001)
Character: Şarapçı Kadın
Maruf is a young man from Southeast Anatolia whose only concern is to marry his beloved as soon as possible. His mother became disabled while giving birth to him, which has strained his relationship with his father. Maruf wants to join the army and takes leave from his unit. Meanwhile, when it is suggested that Maruf marry Cankız, who has been widowed following the death of his uncle, everything becomes complicated. Moreover, Cankız intends to remain faithful to her late husband forever.
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Robert'in Filmi (1992)
Character: Fahişe
Some time ago, Robert took some photos of military action which are now endangering his life. He is on the run from those who would find their publication damaging and is headed for Syria, where he believes he will be safe. While in Istanbul, he meets a pop singer, a woman half his age who gives him the erotic charge of his life. He begins taking film of their bedroom encounters and says some pretty excessive things about how marvelous she is to him. Meanwhile, his local friends don't trust or like him enough to help him stay in Istanbul, and it seems that he will have to continue onward in his journey to safety.
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Geçmişteki Sır (2017)
Character: N/A
Ali, a young photographer who lives with his family, finds himself in an unusual and sad story in Bosnia and Herzegovina after a genetic disorder. Having never visited Bosnia, he will look for the traces of his own past. Hana, who lives in Bosnia, will not leave him travel alone on this journey.
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Murtaza (2017)
Character: N/A
Sabure and Murtaza live in a mountain village in Malatya. Sabure lost both her eyes years ago. Her husband Murtaza takes care of her. Their children live in Istanbul. One day, Murtaza goes to the village and calls his daughter in Istanbul from the grocery store and learns that she is very ill. He goes to Istanbul without telling Sabure about her daughter's condition. However, his daughter dies that evening. Murtaza hides the news of his daughter's death from Sabure so that she does not become ill or sad. But Sabure becomes increasingly quiet, and over time, her loneliness and despair come to the surface.
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Medcezir Manzaraları (1989)
Character: Emel
Two passionate lovers who can neither live together nor apart and who are increasingly consumed by each other allow this toxic relationship to make them lose control of their lives.
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Kars Öyküleri (2010)
Character: N/A
Omnibus of five short films that were shot in the Turkish province of Kars, on the border with Armenia. Among the five directors are three debutants who were chosen to film their stories after winning a scenario contest. The final result is a sympathetic collection of films that remain small and simple: the puppy love between a boy and a girl on their winter trip to school, the memories of a young woman about her mother's response to her first menstruation and bra, and the story of a student who returns to his village, but all too soon flees again for the past that is waiting for him there. The stories take place strikingly often around the cemetery and look at things from the past being revealed. The last contribution to the omnibus film is also significantly called ‘a small truth’.
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Fegere (2018)
Character: N/A
Arif is a retired family man who has fallen in love with acting. While working as an extra on TV series sets in the hope of being discovered, he is accidentally cast in a two-page role as a doctor. This role will also cause him to experience the most traumatic day of his life.
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Solgun Bir Sarı Gül (1996)
Character: N/A
The story of a young man who spends his entire life trying to heal the wound his stepmother left in his soul.
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Yaz Yağmuru (1994)
Character: N/A
While working on his novel, an author discovers a mysterious girl in his garden. Is she real or imaginary? Despite this uncertainty, he delves into the girl's world.
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Yaren Leylek (2024)
Character: N/A
Adem is not ready for the idea of having a sibling and goes to his grandmother's house with his family. There, he meets his grandfather's stork, Yaren, and they immediately become friends. Ilyas, who builds nests for storks in the village, objects to the children's desire to see the stork's nest up close. One night, Adem rescues an egg that is falling from Yaren's nest and gives it to Ilyas. Ilyas decides to help Adem and gives him a magical astrolabe. Adem believes that this astrolabe shows the location of the water of immortality and tells Kerem and Derya about it. The three friends and Yaren decide to search for the water of immortality. The events they discover in the town during this search will surprise everyone.
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Prestij Meselesi (2023)
Character: Belkıs Aran
The film, which deals with the birth and rise of the Prestige Music generation, tells the passions and life struggles of artists, including Özcan Deniz, Haluk Levent and Mahsun Kırmızıgül, from the 1990s to the present.
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Vizontele Tuuba (2004)
Character: Latif'in Karısı
Guner Sernikli is a government official who, with his wife and their wheelchair bound daughter, has been assigned as the head librarian to this isolated province, virtually an exile since there is no library in the village. The family is warmly welcome, but these are the years of political anarchy and leftist/rightist clashes in big cities and the youth of the village inevitably follow the tides. They arrive in Vizontele, just as the situation is becoming really absurd. Guner brings wisdom; his daughter Tuba brings beauty, innocence and love. Some like the Mayor, Nazmi Dogan and crazy Emin appreciate these things but they are in the minority and confusion continues to reign. The story is based on the memories of writer-director Yılmaz Erdoğan of the last summer of his childhood in Hakkâri, Turkey in 1980.
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Mutluluk (2007)
Character: Münevver
A young woman of about 17 years old, named Meryem (Ozgu Namal), has been raped, and her village's customs call for her to be killed to restore honor and dignity to her family and village. The eldest son of the village leader, Cemal (Murat Han), is ordered to take Meryem to Istanbul and kill her, but at the last minute he cannot complete the task.
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Çıplak (1991)
Character: Grandmother
The story of two couples, Ayla and Yadigar and Seher and Hüseyin, who know each other on a journey through the secret history of nudity. This journey begins with two women starting nude modeling in an art academy, beyond the husbands' knowledge. But it doesn't take them long to find it out.
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Her Şeye Rağmen (1987)
Character: Hasan'ın Ablası
After serving a jail sentence, Hasan gets a job driving a hearse for the protestant church, and becomes involved with a widow, Ayse, and her son.
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Ayla (2017)
Character: Yaşlı Nimet
In 1950, amidst the ravages of the Korean War, Sergeant Süleyman stumbles upon a a half-frozen little girl, with no parents and no help in sight and he risks his own life to save her, smuggling her into his army base and out of harm’s way.
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Cem Karaca'nın Gözyaşları (2024)
Character: N/A
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.
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Hazal (1979)
Character: N/A
The son of a wealthy, respected family seeks the hand of Hazal; unexpectedly, soon after her marriage, her husband dies. According to custom, as the deceased family had paid dowry for Hazal, she must marry the next male sibling—which in this case, happens to be an 11-year old boy.
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Karanlıktakiler (2009)
Character: Gülseren
A drama-thriller centered on an advertising agency employee for whom work is an outlet from his life under his overbearing mother's roof.
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Duvar (1983)
Character: Mahkum
Produced, written and directed by Yılmaz Güney within his own personal experiences of capital offense, he dedicates Duvar to male teenagers aged 13 to 19 living behind the bars under diabolical treatments. These teenagers get barbaric corporal punishments, injurious harrows, tortures and sexual abuses just for taking the responsibility of their destiny on a wrong turn.
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Bir Yudum Sevgi (1984)
Character: Nezaket
Aygül is an unhappy woman who is trying to raise her four children without the help of her unemployed, no-good husband. She starts working in a factory and this becomes the igniter of her consciousness-raising process.
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Mucize 2: Aşk (2019)
Character: Hazar
During the 1960s, a disabled man finds himself in an arranged marriage to the most beautiful girl in the village.
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Eylül Fırtınası (1999)
Character: Sultan
In the early days of the September 12 military coup, five-year-old Metin waits for his mother, singing to himself as he looks out the window. But his mother, Ayten, has been arrested and sent to prison. Since the child is alone at home, they take him to his mother in her cell, but despite all her jokes and games, Metin is aware of what is happening. The next day, Metin's grandfather Hüseyin Efe, who lives on Bozcaada, comes to take him, and Metin's days of freedom on the island begin. His friends exclude him because of the "communist" label his mother has been given. Yet Metin cannot even properly say the word "communist." Metin, affected by the exclusion, has another concern: his father’s photo is also on the “Wanted” posters hanging all over the island.
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Kaç Para Kaç (1999)
Character: I. Müşteri
The film is set in present-day Istanbul. Selim is a shop owner in his early forties. He sells clothing for men in his shop situated in one of the back streets of Istanbul. Selim is a family man who has devoted his life to his home and his work. He lives with his wife Ayla, his six-year-old daughter Esma and his old father in a simple flat in and old, modest neighbourhood. He has warm relations with his family. He is an affectionate father. One of his neighbours, a young widow named Nihal tries to seduce Selim, but her flirtation leaves him cold. Selim is known for his honesty and integrity among his family and friends. He is a careful spender. As a little child, he has learned that money is not easily earned. He has no tolerance for petty "trickery" met in daily life. One day, Selim finds a bag full of dollar bills (approximately 500,000$) in a cab. From that day on, Selim finds himself in a bewildered state with a bag full of money on his hands.
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Uçurtmayı Vurmasınlar (1989)
Character: Safinaz
Sent to prison along with his mother after her drug conviction, a young boy develops a warm, tender relationship with a political prisoner.
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Ve Panayır Köyden Gider (2016)
Character: Ayşe
A series of strange events begins in a small village with a dark past when a stranger arrives and questions his own past.
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Denize Hançer Düştü (1992)
Character: Feriha
The story of two female theater actors, Deniz and İpek. The events that take place during the rehearsals and staging of Jean Genet's play "The Balcony" are intertwined with love, indifference, passion, sexuality, and the lust for power, just like in the play itself.
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Mucize (2015)
Character: Hazar
1960s Turkey countryside. A newly assigned teacher finds out that the solitary village is missing a school. He gets fond of the village people and especially a disabled man. The teacher helps the village to build a new school and educate the children and the disabled man.
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The Galactic Plectrum (2025)
Character: Shaman Ana
Whenever his plectrum strums the strings of his saz, folk bard Necdet is drifting into strange and wondrous cosmic realms. For years, he has been estranged from his son Metin, a psychedelic rock musician. One day, Shaman Ana — walking across centuries — suddenly appears, determined to reconcile them.
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Ponente Feneri (1988)
Character: Büyükanne
Ponente Feneri is about a woman lighthouse keeper who lives on a deserted island with her elderly mother and daughter, and a man who takes refuge on the island. Şahin Gök is in the director's chair and the cast of the movie includes names such as Hülya Koçyiğit, Hakan Balamir, Arzu Aydın, Mine Çayıroğlu, Kazım Kartal.
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Sibel (2019)
Character: Narin
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.
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İz (1994)
Character: N/A
Commissioner Kemal, who is nearing retirement, investigates a suicide case. Cezmi Kara, whose face has become unrecognizable, has been found dead in her home. Kemal suspects that this is a murder and obsesses over the dead man's face.
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Duruşma (1999)
Character: N/A
The story revolves around the beautiful Nazan, the neighbor's daughter, who manages to remain a virgin despite marrying two of the neighborhood's handsome men, Selami and Cavit; the fierce competition between Selami and Cavit for Nazan; the schemes orchestrated by Nazan's mother, Necla; and the neighbors' curious observation of these intriguing developments, their astonishment, and their simple reactions. Nazan's mother Necla's schemes; the neighbors' curious observation of these intriguing developments, their astonishment, and the sudden media attention their simple lives receive, all told in a humorous tone.
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Kadın İşi Banka Soygunu (2014)
Character: Asuman
After a mother in debt seeks moral support from her three closest friends, she ends up with a ragtag crew ready to rob a bank.
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Kantodan Tangoya (1989)
Character: N/A
The story of how a small child’s life is transformed by the woman his father loves, a cabaret singer, Anjelique. It opens in 1982, when the child is now on eighty-year old retired diplomat, living on his own with only a cat for company.
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Tur Rehberi (2025)
Character: Zeliha
Ercüment is a showman but every single time he performs, it ends up being a disaster. After a while of being in between jobs, he finds himself as a tour guide due to his father's illness and he has to deal with senior people that are taking the tour just so they can commit suicide together.
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Vezir Parmağı (2017)
Character: Safiye Hatun
In this story set in ancient times, 31 women who lost their husbands, fathers, and children in war rise up against their lack of men after many years and demand that the state send them men to marry and have children. Five single men from different regions and cultures are selected at a porter market in Istanbul to marry these 31 women. The selected men, unaware of what awaits them, believe they are going to war. However, the porters, referred to as "human donkeys," find themselves in a completely different adventure instead of the front lines.
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Aşkın Dünkü Çocukları (2025)
Character: Molekül Kıymet
Askin Dünkü Çocuklari, tells a bittersweet love story from the 70s to the present day, blending it with the social issues of the period.
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Piano Piano Bacaksız (1991)
Character: Münevver
In 1940s Turkey, the war is recently over, but the wounds are still fresh, and the WWII is going on next door. A different family lives in each room of a mansion. They all lead a scarce life but hold on to life with hope.
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Demir Kadın: Neslican (2023)
Character: N/A
Demir Kadın Neslican tells the life story of "Iron Woman" Neslican Tay, who gave hope to people with her struggle to cling to life while undergoing cancer treatment. The film recounts the difficult treatment process that began when she was diagnosed with cancer, revealing Neslican's experiences during this period and her struggle to cling to life.
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Su da Yanar (1987)
Character: N/A
It is the story of the dilemmas and struggles in the life of a film director during a period when fear and despair reigned, people were imprisoned, tortured, and killed. The director, who wants to make a film about Nazım Hikmet, is trying to find the money to do so.
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Firar (1984)
Character: N/A
Details the struggles of an oppressed woman's sexual frustrations.
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Aaahh Belinda (2023)
Character: Bilge Kadin
A young actor's perfect life takes a madcap turn when she agrees to star in a commercial — and suddenly gets transported to her character's world.
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Karanlıkta Islık Çalanlar (2025)
Character: Anneanne
A supernatural encounter burdens the recently retired Mr. Melih with an existential awakening. Soon he, his wife, and their daughter are all haunted by the "ghosts" of lost opportunities, abandoned dreams, and alternate possibilities -- literally...
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80. Adım (1996)
Character: Zeynep Bender
The story of a group of former activist friends who came together after September 12 and questioned the past.
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Vizontele (2001)
Character: Nevin
The story takes place in the small town of Hakkari in Turkey at the beginning of the '70s. The time has come to bring technology to that small town. The first Television (called Visiontele by the citizens) arrives and the chaos begins.
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Toz Bezi (2015)
Character: Çerkez Hanım
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.
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Sadece Farklı (2020)
Character: N/A
Fikret works at the library. He is married and has a ten-year-old son. He literally has a routine life. With his wife leaving home, he loses his ability to continue his daily life. His son suddenly finds himself in the position of his father's father. The film tells the story of a father with high functioning autism and his "normal" son.
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Algoritma'ya Biat Et (2025)
Character: Charlotte Serrault
Frustrated by failure and public humiliation, Lily, a wannabe YouTuber, finds herself with no other option but to work for a new social media app named ‘Kathartist,’ where users create content using their smart glasses. Little does she know, this app is actually a front for a cult worshiping the almighty Algorithm, brainwashing failed content makers like her for recruitment. As she becomes more involved, Lily becomes successful but grows increasingly vulnerable to Gabe, a worldwide famous influencer known for his reaction videos, particularly those targeting Lily’s original content.
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