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- DirectorErden KiralStarsGenco ErkalErkan YücelSerif SezerA urban Turkish teacher is transferred for political reasons to a backward Kurdish village in the mountains near the Iranian border. He is welcomed with distrust, but during that harsh year the mutual cultural misunderstandings fade away.
- DirectorMemduh ÜnStarsAsli AltanUgur PolatNalan SayarNil spends years in jail and is being tortured during September 12 junta period and alienates the new life after she is released.
- DirectorZeki DemirkubuzStarsEngin GünaydinSerhat TutumluerNihal YalçinA man's life, thoughts, feelings and his very own darkness... Adapted from Dostoevsky's novel "Notes from Undergroud", Demirkubuz follows Muharrem as he gets himself invited to a party where he is not welcome, just to find himself disgusted.
- DirectorRiza KiraçStarsMacit KoperEsra RusanBerke Üzrek
- DirectorCaner AlperMehmet BinayStarsKerem CanGiovanni ArvanehErkan AvciA feature film about an unusual trio: Daniel, a German photo-journalist in Istanbul without much knowledge about Turkish values. Can, a flamboyant, out and proud male belly dancer with lots of love and support from his family, and Ahmet born to an eastern and conservative family whose quest for honesty and liberty results in a tragic end.
- DirectorÇagan IrmakStarsÇaglar ÇorumluSevinç ErbulakGenco ErkalSeçil and her daughter Gizem move to the apartment where Aziz lives. Before long, Gizem has an unfortunate accident. Aziz, who loves the little girl very much, will try to fulfill the three wishes written in the girl's diary until she wakes up.
- DirectorÜmit ÜnalStarsSerra YilmazIrem AltugIdil FiratA woman lets a harmless looking fortune teller into her house. The fortune teller is clearly gifted, but it turns out she had no intention of just telling fortunes. Soon, the woman deeply regrets letting her in.
- DirectorÖmer KavurStarsMacit KoperSahika TekandSerra YilmazThe lonely proprietor of a small hotel in a provincial Turkish town develops a passion for a departed guest and the reality of routine everyday-life starts crumbling into pieces.
- DirectorImre AzemTells the story of Istanbul and other Mega-Cities on a neo-liberal course to destruction. It follows the story of a migrant family on their on-going struggle for housing rights.
- DirectorFaruk HacihafizogluStarsTaha Tegin ÖzdemirYakup Özgür KurtaalÖmer UluçIn the shadow of the military coup in 1980, these children aged 12-13, playing their childish games soon arrive at an understanding of life's responsibilities and are hastily introduced into the world of the grownups.
- DirectorKudret SabanciStarsGüven KiraçIstar GöksevenCengiz KüçükayvazPimps want to expand and conquer the world, by abiding the greats and oppressing the losers, but they lose their prostitute to some sailors.
- DirectorÇigdem VitrinelStarsErdal BesikçiogluSezin AkbasogullariErdinç GülenerBut Müzeyyen It's A Deep Passion.
- DirectorReha ErdemStarsDeniz HasgülerOnur ÜnsalYildirim SimsekJin, a guerrilla, lives in a cave and decides to escape from the organization. She finds some civilian clothes and goes down from the mountain to the city. However, the city is no safer than the mountain.
- DirectorM. Tayfur AydinStarsNecmettin ÇobanogluBilal BulutMelahat BayramA political drama film featuring Necmettin Çobanoglu as a devoted son intent on helping his aged mother return to her hometown in eastern Turkey.
- DirectorAli YorganciogluUluc Ali KilicGonenc UyanikStarsSecil AkmirzaDeniz AlnitemizMurat ArliEge and Kerem are 25-year-old virgins who masturbate excessively. One day Eros appears to them and threatens to castrate them if they fail to get laid within the subsequent seven days. Thus begins an often hilarious, tragic- comic struggle to have sex which involves a dance class, bar-hopping and sultry neighbors.
- DirectorÖmer Faruk SorakStarsCem YilmazÖzge ÖzberkOzan GüvenA slick young Turk kidnapped by extraterrestrials shows his great « humanitarian spirit » by outwitting the evil commander-in-chief of the planet of G.O.R.A.
- DirectorMurat SaraçogluStarsOsman SonantNesrin CavadzadeYavuz BingölA Turkish nationalist firefighter sets out on a life-changing journey in Diyarbakir.
- DirectorTolga KaraçelikStarsNadir SaribacakHakan KarsakKadir ÇermikWhen the crew of a bankrupt cargo ship gets stuck on board for months, isolation breeds pressures that sink the men into a sea of madness and terror.
- DirectorYilmaz ErdoganStarsKivanç TatlitugMert FiratBelçim BilginIn a small Turkish town, two young tuberculous poets try to survive while publishing their poems. As they both fall in love, their life would never be the same.
- DirectorIlksen BasarirStarsMert FiratMelisa SözenAnil AltinozNehir comes across to someone singing songs all night long. She likes what she listens so much that she goes after this mysterious musician.
- DirectorAli AtayStarsErtan SabanSerkan KeskinFunda EryigitSo begins an entertaining road story where we witness two brothers with different cultural backgrounds, who don't even know each other, have similarities, differences and even their fights.
- DirectorÖzcan AlperStarsOnur SaylakSofiya KhandamirovaMustafa UgurluAddresses the issues of ethnicity and belonging and conveys how it feels to be across the borders, not only in terms of dislocating out of the borders of a country but also in terms of struggling to exist at the margins of a society.
- DirectorCaner AlperMehmet BinayStarsEce DizdarTilbe SaranTaner BirselDeniz ends up in hospital and has to face the ghosts of past. She manages to discover herself and the hidden secrets in her family drawers.
- DirectorNesimi YetikStarsTansu BiçerAytaç ArmanNihal G. KoldasStory of a male house keeper who has big dreams as a singer.
- DirectorKutlug AtamanStarsErdal YildizTaner BirselSila Lara CantürkAs Eastern Anatolian village tradition requires, 27-year-old Medine must serve oven-roasted lamb at her 5-year-old son Mert's circumcision feast.
- DirectorAli YorganciogluStarsSettar TanriögenOzan ÖzcanCaner ÖzyurtluTwo friends move into a haunted house and become involuntary roommates with a humorously annoying, grumpy ghost. They have to complete a set of entertaining tasks to send the ghost away.
- DirectorBilge OlgaçStarsGüven SengilOktay SözbirSemra ÖzdamarThis film touches upon the mass social movements, student struggles and political conditions in Turkey in 1970s.
- DirectorAhu ÖztürkStarsAsiye DinçsoyNazan KesalDidem InselelNesrin and Hatun are two Kurdish cleaning women living in Istanbul. While Nesrin tries to survive with her little daughter, trying to understand why her husband left her, Hatun dreams of buying a house in the district where they clean.
- DirectorDeniz Gamze ErgüvenStarsGünes SensoyDoga Zeynep DogusluTugba SungurogluWhen five orphan girls are seen innocently playing with boys on a beach, their scandalized conservative guardians confine them while forced marriages are arranged.
- DirectorEmine Emel BalciStarsEsme MadraRiza AkinArda AktolgaSerap is a quite but hot-headed adolescent who is working long hours in a cramped clothing workshop as a runner. Fed up with her abusive brother-in-law and detached sister; the only thing that keeps Serap going is the hope of moving into an apartment with her father who is a long distance truck driver.
- DirectorOnur ÜnlüStarsSerhan ErgörenSerkan KeskinAhmet ÇevikThere is a murder while at prayer. Selman Bulut, the imam of mosque, starts to investigate the murder and faces with people in the neighborhood.
- DirectorMerlyn SolakhanStarsAyse Siir ÖkeMustafa IrgatZümrüt PekinFollows a thirtyish woman returning home to Istanbul from Germany.
- DirectorErtem GöreçStarsAyhan IsikTürkan SorayAtif KaptanThe film tells the struggle of the people of the neighborhood who are deceived by the promise of property.
- DirectorZeki ÖktenStarsTarik AkanNur SürerKamran UsluerBeing released from prison, a traumatized political prisoner retreats to a fishing village. Here, among the vacationers, he hears a voice which he immediately identifies as the voice of one of the policemen whom he never saw the faces of, and who tortured him.
- DirectorYavuz ÖzkanStarsCüneyt ArkinTarik AkanHalil ErgünMine workers in Turkey struggling for better working conditions.
- DirectorMehmet Can MertogluStarsSebnem BozokluMurat KiliçMuttalip MüjdeciA middle-class Turkish couple is far from willing to admit they used adoption as a last resort to build a family, and will do anything to keep it a secret.
- DirectorÖzer KiziltanStarsErkan CanMeray ÜlgenGüven KiraçA promotion brings a Muslim's relationship with God into question.
- DirectorAlphan EseliRamin MatinBaris PirhasanStarsAnil AyvaliogluAntigone GitanaDefne Halman"Coastliners" consists of five fictional short films by internationally acclaimed directors who bring together different stories on the theme of Human Rights.
- DirectorErol MintasStarsFeyyaz DumanZübeyde RonahiNesrin CavadzadeA young Kurdish man is torn between his mother's nostalgic search of a song in her dreams and an uncertain future with his pregnant girlfriend.
- DirectorKivanç SezerStarsMenderes SamancilarMusab EkiciKubra KipSet against the backdrop of construction activity promising to fill in the empty spaces of the urban landscape with entirely new neighborhoods, a story unfolds of an aging construction worker who, unlike his peers, has to drop all plans for the future after being diagnosed with a malignant tumor.
- DirectorMurat DüzgünogluStarsTansu BiçerVuslat SaraçogluEsra KizildoganBahadir, an aspiring 35-year-old director, spends his life making cheap television films inspired by the stories of folk songs. On the other hand, he has a great ambition to make films like his idol, Tarkovsky. He stands between his dreams and the real, tragicomic conditions.
- DirectorYesim UstaogluStarsFunda EryigitEcem UzunMehmet KurtulusTwo Turkish women, one oppressed by sexist traditions and one liberated by modern mores, have more in common than it would seem.
- DirectorÜmit KörekenStarsSelim KayaEray KilicarslanKatya Shenkova12-year-old Ali lives an austere life in the Anatolian countryside. He's saving up his hard-earned money for his big dream: a brand-new, blue bicycle. When Elif, the girl he is secretly in love with, becomes the victim of a great injustice at school, Ali takes up the passionate fight for democracy and against a system stuck in its ways.
- DirectorTahsin OzmenStarsFidan YeterIbrahim YuralDuring the 1990s, a boy struggles to deliver a banned Kurdish cassette to his grandfather in the City of Cizre.
- DirectorÇigdem VitrinelStarsDevin Özgür ÇinarSebnem HassanisoughiErkan BektasWhile both separately living under brutal and demanding conditions of city life, Sevda and Zuhal's paths intersects when Sevda's husband Cezmi starts having an affair with one of his colleagues in hospital, Zuhal. This betrayal is life threatening for Sevda, who considers her marriage and the perfect order of daily life she created as a huge success.
- DirectorHakan AlgülStarsAta DemirerTuvana TürkayÜlkü DuruZafer, a sailor living with his mother Döndü in a coastal village in Izmir, has just broke up with his girlfriend Mehtap whose father is also a sailor. While Döndü and her friend, Fahriye try to help Zafer to marry someone and have his own family, a famous and talented actress, Asli surprisingly attends Zafer's boat tour.
- DirectorZeynep DadakMerve KayanStarsAyris AlptekinOnur SaylakBaris HacihanDeniz and her friends, who have been apart for the summer, have much to tell each other. While adults are busy with their professional lives, Deniz and her friends are still confused about their university plans. Through the worries of their daily routines, they make plans for the future, yet the challenges of teenage years/adolescence are burdensome.
- DirectorBelmin SöylemezStarsSanem ÖgeSenay AydinOzan BilenThe story of a young woman who is in search for her lost hopes. Like many in Turkish society, Mina is jobless, lonely, and unhappy. She wants to escape to the USA and start from zero; a familiar feeling to most of us. But how? She needs money, documents and a visa. She applies to a fortune-telling café, lying that she has experience.
- DirectorDeniz Akcay KatiksizStarsAhu TürkpençeLale BasarSavas Alp BasarThe story of four people who cannot manage to become a family again after a loss and who destroy themselves with each passing day.
- DirectorSeren YüceStarsSongül ÖdenTolga TekinTülay GünalHaving reached their 40s Handan and Korhan live a humdrum life in an upper scale neighborhood in Istanbul. Handan tries to keep herself occupied, relentlessly trying on new pastimes, counting on Korhan's support for each one. Korhan, on the other hand, having witnessed too many of her whims, has learned not to make much of them.
- DirectorCan EvrenolStarsClémentine PoidatzAli AksözDavid SakuraiOn a snowy eve, Little Holly's sister and father are killed by her frantic mother. Years later, Holly is married, lonely, and her life is soon about take a turn for the ultra weird, when she visits "Umbrella of Love and Mind".
- DirectorBaris DogrusözDidem PekünBaris DogrusozStarsDidem PekünThe film explores the legacy of the influencial singer who came of age in time of social upheaval and her music served as platform as political activist. She had complicated with her country and intense relationship with her lifelong partner Erdem Buri, who was also politically persecuted. Using her own story as a parallel minor narrative, filmmaker Didem explores the themes of art, identity and politics. This is particularly timely approach given the social and economical turmoil the world is faced. DIdem's story serves as contemporary corollary, giving the viewer additional lens to view German's work and her continuing relevance.
- StarsÖykü KarayelFatih ArtmanFunda EryigitA group of unique characters from dramatically different socio-cultural backgrounds meeting in startling circumstances in the vibrant and colorful city of Istanbul, - some by chance and some by force of will.
- DirectorElizabeth LoStarsZeytinNazarKartalThe world of Zeytin, a stray dog living life on the streets of Istanbul.
- DirectorChloe FairweatherOver one in three women in Turkey experience domestic violence. Lawyer Ipek Bozkurt's clients risk their lives while fighting the culture of violence in court
- DirectorBurak CevikStarsEylül Su SapanÇaglar YalçinkayaA man recounts the murder of his future mother-in-law, how he met his lover, and what led up to the deadly crime.
- DirectorSerhat KaraaslanStarsDeniz AltanLorin MerhartCem BazaIn a town in Turkey, a young couple looks for some privacy. They are rejected from the hotels because they do not have a marriage certificate. When they think they have found a way, the situation gets out of hand.
- DirectorEmin AlperStarsSelahattin PasaliEkin KoçErol BabaogluEmre, a young prosecutor newly appointed to the small town of Yaniklar, finds himself being pulled into a political conflict during his first criminal investigation.
- DirectorRidvan KaramanStarsYasar Tayfun BaykanFevzi Taykan BaykanTwin brothers, Tayfun and Taykan, live at a retirement home although they are in their early forties. They are both passionately committed to music. Having named their music band "Glassy Stares" and isolated themselves from life, the twins spend their time with writing and composing songs. Glassy Stares is an ecstatic insight into truth amid the fogs of schizophrenia. It is knotting guitar strings in restoring torn ties with the real. It is a tribute to becoming music while going beyond making music. It is a story of brotherhood in which the agents mingle with each other.
- DirectorCem YilmazStarsCem YilmazTülin ÖzenZafer AlgözPirated DVD seller Zafer who is formerly an extra in movies; swore to give up illegal works when his wife wanted to get divorce. To win his family back, he and his old-fashioned crew decided to make a movie called "Summit - The End Of Evil" which is a fantastic science fiction movie and couldn't be shot since 1977.
- DirectorCem YilmazStarsCem YilmazÇetin AltayIrina IvkinaAli and Ilber, the two partners of Senay Cüccaciye, sell garden dwarfs. When their company starts to dwindle, they decide to participate in a gardening fair in Sofia with the plan to meet new people from the sector in an attempt to drum up new business.
- DirectorAli AtayStarsAhmet Mümtaz TaylanAlper KulSarp ApakMermer Family lives a double life working at their family owned restaurant while being undercover assassins for an international organization. After their secret is revealed, this dysfunctional family needs to work together to survive.
- StarsHaluk BilginerNur SürerAli AtayCevdet and his wife retire on their pensions to live in peace on a rural farm, but their lives are destroyed when their son suddenly arrives with terrible news.
- DirectorAli Kemal ÇinarStarsSakine TunçAli Kemal Çinar
- DirectorMeltem BozofluStarsOnur BulduMahir IpekDerya KaradasWhen three adult siblings who have lost their father get a step dad, things get out of hand. As the step dad tries to get himself accepted in the family, the three siblings who don't want their mother to get married will do all they can to end the affair.
- DirectorCanbert YerguzStarsÇaglar ÇorumluBoran KuzumSükran OvaliMesut, a civil servant who returns his hometown to bury his mother, is dragged into by his younger brother Musa to a treasure hunt and finds himself tangled up with a murder.
- DirectorYilmaz ErdoganStarsYilmaz ErdoganFarah Zeynep AbdullahSongül ÖdenPromising a visual feast of colors, costumes, light and locations, SOUR APPLES will have you simultaneously laughing and crying with its powerful acting performances as well as Yilmaz Erdogan's witty and memorable dialogues.
- DirectorEzel AkayStarsHaluk BilginerDemet AkbagElçin SanguA resilient housewife, her husband and their marriage therapist become mired in a toxic love triangle and a plot to obtain an antique manuscript.
- DirectorFikret ReyhanStarsSelen KurtaranUgur KarabulutAlper ÇankayaNesrin who lives with her four-year-old son, struggles with her ex-husband Ömer's oppressive behavior and bureaucratic hardships while she is on the brink of making a critical decision regarding her relationship with her boyfriend Selim.
- DirectorYilmaz ErdoganStarsYilmaz ErdoganDemet AkbagZerrin SümerBorn in Istanbul in 1948, Gülseren is a gifted woman who can multiply four-digit numbers in her mind. The play presents sections from Gülseren's life over a 50-year period, accompanied by a panorama of Turkey in the background.