Browsing: Cinema

A dark Turkish horror-drama in which zombies, violence, indifference, and shifting ethical boundaries reflect a decaying social system.

Over the course of one scorching day, a worker’s postponed confrontation unfolds through heat, exhaustion, petty obligations, and the absurd rhythms of provincial life.

A contemporary Turkish short film in which mourning rituals, social performance, suppressed laughter, and unspoken family tensions produce a gently escalating chaos.

A lyrical short film portrait in which an uncle’s devotion to cinema and flight opens a space of curiosity, tenderness, and possibility for a child.

Veysel’s permanent wakefulness turns a luxury hotel into a transitional space of silence, memory, fear, desire, and temporary human openness.

Katja’s search for justice after the deaths of her husband and son exposes the emotional violence of grief, the cold language of legal procedure, and the persistence of racist hatred.

Mamo and his musician sons travel across a fragmented Kurdish geography where bureaucracy, prophecy, exile, and the silencing of women obstruct the passage of music.

Two women clean wealthy homes while carrying their own domestic burdens, hopes, debts, and frustrations through the unequal class geography of Istanbul.

A portrait or film still associated with Belma Baş’s visually restrained cinema, where natural landscapes and silence reflect the inner lives of her characters.

The disappearance of Elly exposes hidden tensions within a middle-class group and transforms friendship, good intentions, and small lies into a crisis of shared conscience.