S. Emrah Özdemir

In the heart of Istanbul's prison, Zakir controls the letters prisoners receive. His average day is spent between the censorship office, his...

Yılmaz is the dealer and close friends of famous filmmakers and actors. With the increasing drug operations in Istanbul, Yılmaz is getting paranoid...

At Turkey’s oldest zoo, a lonely manager and a neglected female officer form an unlikely bond: as they hide the death of the zoo’s oldest...

The set of the series Dalgalanır Karadeniz (The Black Sea Waves) comes to a halt when director Enver notices that the wall paint is incomplete. What...

Dian (Lisa Surihani), a sweet and naïve blogger, travels to Istanbul in hopes of convincing her medical student boyfriend Azad (Tomok) to propose to...

Rimo and Zimo are two towns that are not very far from each other, divided by a small desert. Both towns’ people have stayed away from each other...

Nesrin, a single mother who lives with her four-year-old son, struggles with her ex-husband Ömer’s oppressive behaviour and bureaucratic hardships...

A young art teacher hopes to be transferred to Istanbul after completing his mandatory duty in a remote village school in Anatolia. After accusations...

Hilal, who thinks that she started working at a call center where both Republican and Islamic works are sold via telemarketing, will try to sell to...

Cenk has just arrived back to Istanbul from the United States. Suppressed love slowly begins to resurface after he encounters Ece, a woman whom he...

A sarcastic, erotic, and tense gaze into the private, professional and social lives of Istanbulite artists whose lives intertwine with fiction.

Eyüp’s most difficult journey begins as a taxi driver when he takes a passenger who is on his way to kill his wife.

With Istanbul mired in political violence, Kadir is offered release after 15 years in prison if he’ll work as an informant. In a shantytown he...

Late at night in a small Turkish town, a young couple tries to find a hotel room to spend the night together. They are rejected from all hotels for...

In Istanbul, on the verge of a country-wide power surge, four characters come across in a neighborhood undergoing the process of gentrification for...

Ayça and Hama Ali are together in spirit, but divided by geography. With the outbreak of the Iraq War leaving him stranded, she embarks on an...

After his mother's death, Hakki, who has hidden his homosexuality from all other family members except his mother, must confront the life he left...

The only memory Morî has of her father is the audio recording of a story he told her. Morî listens to this story from time to time. One day, a new...

The film begins as a documentary about an author known for autofiction. By incorporating multiple making-of layers, it blends the process of making...

Dilan works in her uncle's real estate office and lives with her mother. She will turn thirty soon, and feels she is not living up to her potential....

Several directors from countries of the region were invited to create stories taking place in and around the beautiful city of Istanbul, in the vein...

Facing imminent eviction, an idealistic young photographer and her hapless roommate attempt to sell her work to galleries for the first time,...

The story of three survivors of a refugee boat accident. Hazel, a young Syrian woman, finds herself trapped between cultural traditions and family...

A supernatural encounter burdens the recently retired Mr. Melih with an existential awakening. Soon he, his wife, and their daughter are all haunted...

Nazire, in order to take back her child who was sent to an orphanage, puts up a tough fight against both the bureaucratic system that offers her...

A grieving woman wanders a vast, maze-like shoe store holding a black shoebox she cannot bring herself to let go of, haunted by fragments of a lost...