Browsing: Cinema

Mahsun survives cold Istanbul nights by sleeping inside parked cars, moving between shelter, property, police procedure, violence, and small gestures of compassion.

Semih Kaplanoğlu’s trilogy follows Yusuf backwards from adulthood to childhood, connecting memory, space, family, language, nature, and belonging through silence and duration.

The lives of psychiatrist Şehnaz and young Elmas intersect within the conflicting rhythms of the hospital, home, courthouse, and coastline.

A family’s conflicts over land, masculinity, authority, and property are projected onto an invisible enemy beyond the hills.

A woman and a young man travel through cities, hotels, photographs, and memories in search of a face whose meaning continually withdraws.

A nocturnal road journey shaped by bus stations, cheap hotels, photographs, maps, waiting, and the search for an image that continually recedes.

Seren Yüce portrays paternal authority, middle-class comfort, discrimination, and conformity through domestic gestures, workplace routines, shopping centres, glass partitions, and controlled urban spaces.

A film production about a racist attack becomes a field in which casting, testimony, institutional procedure, and representational power are brought into conflict.

Aliye, a hotel housekeeper familiar with Levent’s films, encounters the celebrated director during a festival in Söke, bringing invisible labour, cultural capital, and the ethics of looking into the same space.

A family drama centred on four sisters whose return to the sea transforms the coastal town into a space of memory, confrontation, and renewed togetherness.