Browsing: Independent Turkish Cinema

Lawyer and poet Leyla meets nursing student Canan on a night train before they confront an ethical decision involving Yavuz, care, death, and responsibility.

Collector Mithat Bey and apartment caretaker Ali form an unexpected alliance as urban transformation threatens an old building and the collection contained within it.

Nihat and Seher encounter one another between the isolation of a mountain watchtower and the social pressure of a small town, gradually establishing a fragile space of protection and witnessing.

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.

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

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

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.

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.