Browsing: Cinema

Sinan returns to his hometown after university and attempts to publish his book while confronting his father’s debts, local power networks, faith, writing, and the difficulty of remaining in place.

Aydın’s cultural authority, private property, charitable language, and good intentions collide with Nihal, Imam Hamdi, debt, class difference, and the silent measure of winter.

A prosecutor, doctor, police commissioner, gendarmes, and suspects search the Anatolian steppe throughout the night for a body, while procedure gradually becomes an inquiry into truth, memory, and witnessing.

Recently released from prison, Yusuf becomes the silent witness to the destructive attachment between Bekir and Uğur beneath the unseen shadow of Zagor.

Bekir abandons the respectable path expected of him and follows Uğur through cities, bus terminals, nightclubs, and hotels as desire gradually becomes habit and destiny.

Musa moves through death, relationships, investigation, and judgement without offering the emotional explanations demanded by society and institutions.

A young prosecutor confronts drought, local alliances, institutional pressure, rumours, masculinity, and collective violence in a provincial town surrounded by deepening sinkholes.

Three sisters sent to urban households as foster girls return to their mountain village, where family economy, women’s labour, jealousy, compassion, departure, and return shape their lives.

A mysterious stranger who heals, steals, and speaks through human, animal, and sacred sounds disrupts the moral and property order of a winter border town.

Ömer, Yakup, and Yıldız experience childhood, family authority, labour, desire, and nature within the acoustic rhythm of a village divided by the five daily calls to prayer.