Nazan Kesal

During the sea battle which took place between the Ottoman Empire and the Italians, a ship which had been seized in the Mediterranean Sea is brought...

Losing his father at a very young age, Bekir lives with his mother Rabia and grandfather İlyas, who jointly run a haberdashery store. When İlyas...

Cazibe is a woman in her late thirties, who has never got married or had a relationship with a man in her life. She lives with her old mother and her...

Mahmut and Abidin work as comedians at a night club, Mahmut is honest yet Abidin is sly. A deaf and mute girl named Kumru is brought to work in the...

The struggle of a mother who tries to understand her son by putting herself in his shoes after his death.

Part filmmaking exercise and part philosophical study, this film is a dual journey for the creator: an exploration of her cinematic language during...

Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, set in Istanbul, the tragic story of three heroes chasing an unlikely dream, running towards their...

A triptych of literary adaptations explores past, present and future in rural Turkey. “Düne Özlem” (from Hulki Aktunç’s Bir...

Deniz returns to her hometown to attend her widowed mother's wedding. The anger, fear, and guilt she thought she'd left behind, resurface during the...

A wig-maker from Istanbul, who suffers from cancer, becomes obsessed with a woman who enters his shop one day.

The story of Barış Telli, who suffered an unfortunate accident at a young age and, through his intense struggle after the accident, became not only...

Şara was born and raised in Istanbul, is a law student in her final year, and is an educated tribal girl. She learns that her father, whom she has...

Centers on a passionate and complicated love story that connects three small-town people trying to survive solely on their labor. Aydanur is a young...

As an unexpected truth about a young women gets revealed to her mother, the basic fact that a mother - daughter relationship is supposed to be based...

Two resentful, singer brothers Hakan and Ozan who can't get along well. Meet again in their father's funeral. Even though they want to get back to...

A love story following two young people battling with their emotions and dreams, the pressures of career, family and not knowing what the future...

Hasret has been seeing the same nightmare for some time, but she keeps living unaware that what she sees is actually remembering. A 30-year-old woman...

Nesrin and Hatun are two Kurdish cleaning women living in Istanbul. While Nesrin tries to survive with her little daughter, trying to understand why...

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...

A documentary about the shooting session of the film "Climates / İklimler" by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. The film had been shot in various parts of Turkey...

Doctor Kemal is head of a private hospital, is ambitious and has the best intentions for the residents of Istanbul. He is the best candidate for...

It's a quiet morning and a middle-aged woman is lying on the bed, watching her sleeping husband's back.

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...

Man was made to be happy for simple reasons and unhappy for even simpler ones – just as he is born for simple reasons and dies for even simpler...

Musa, a customs clerk, sees life as absurd. He drifts with events; his mother's death, though loved, brings him strange joy.

A young man from rural Turkey arrives in Istanbul with dreams of working on a ship and stays with a cousin while he searches for work. Over time, the...

Before the wedding, the families of the man and the woman come together. At this meeting, where rituals specific to Turkey are discussed, while there...

The film explores the deep traces of the life of poetess Nilgün Marmara, her connection with the literary circle and those aspects of her life that...

A year after his father’s death, Bahadir, a struggling artist living in Istanbul returns to the small village he grew up in to oversee the weeklong...