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Tag Archives: turkish
September AKA Eylül (2011) Cemil Agacikoglu, Turgay Aydin, Zafer Kirsan, Elena Polyanskaya
Yusuf, a young jeweler Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, is having a bad time. Read More »
Waiting for the Clouds AKA Bulutlari beklerken (2003) Yesim Ustaoglu, Rüçhan Çaliskur, Ridvan Yagci, Dimitris Kaberidis
A moving and emotional friendship between Aysheh, an elderly woman and Mehmet Read More »
Pandora’s Box AKA Pandora’nin kutusu (2008) Yesim Ustaoglu, Tsilla Chelton, Derya Alabora, Onur Ünsal
When an aging matriarch starts showing signs of dementia, her dysfunctional family in Istanbul Read More »
Hair AKA Saç (2010) Tayfun Pirselimoglu, Ayberk Pekcan, Nazan Kesal, Riza Akin
Hamdi is a wigmaker. After being diagnosed with terminal cancer he loses interest in everything. Read More »
Time of Love AKA Nobat e Asheghi (1995) Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Shiva Gered, Abdurrahman Palay, Menderes Samancilar
Part one: A brown-haired man finds out that his wife cheats on him with a blonde-haired man. Read More »
The Mountain AKA Dag (2012) Alper Caglar, Caglar Ertugrul, Ufuk Bayraktar, Firat Dogruloglu
A four man team sent from headquarters to repair a comm station suddenly falls into a terrorist ambush on the peaks of a mountain. Read More »
Bliss AKA Mutluluk (2007) Abdullah Oguz, Özgü Namal, Talat Bulut, Murat Han
When a young woman named Meryem (Özgü Namal) is raped, her village custom requires Read More »
A Tale of Three Sisters AKA Kiz Kardesler (2019) Emin Alper, Cemre Ebuzziya, Ece Yüksel, Helin Kandemir
A stagnant and gloomy village in the 1980s. Reyhan, Nurhan, and Havva, three sisters were sent to town as ‘besleme’ (foster child and maid). Read More »
Autumn AKA Sonbahar (2008) Özcan Alper, Onur Saylak, Megi Kobaladze, Serkan Keskin
Yusuf is a Turkish political activist whose work with a group of revolutionaries earned him a long stay in prison. Read More »
Hope AKA Umut (1970) Serif Gören, Yilmaz Güney, Gülsen Alniaçik, Tuncel Kurtiz
“Umut” is the story of an illiterate man and his family, whose existence depends on his income as a horse cab driver. Read More »
The Wall AKA Duvar (1983) Yilmaz Güney, Tuncel Kurtiz, Ayse Emel Mesci Kuray, Malik Berrichi
Teens in a Turkish prison struggle to survive under hideous conditions. Made by dying Yilmaz Guney in France Read More »
Climates AKA Iklimler (2006) Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ebru Ceylan, Nazan Kesal
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 ones… Read More »
Iron Claw the Pirate AKA Demir pençe (korsan adam) (1969) Çetin Inanç, Demir Karahan, Nebahat Çehre, Yildirim Gencer
With his operations in Istanbul being continually upset by the masked patriot-cum-vigilante Iron Claw the Pirate (Demir Karahan) Read More »
Hunting Time AKA Av Zamani (1988) Erden Kiral, Aytaç Arman, Serif Seler, Zihni Küçümen
In a timeless and unknown island (which is Cunda Adasi in Ayvalik, on the Aegean Coast of Turkey) a writer tries Read More »