Istanbul Film Festival 2023
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- DirectorFiliz KukaStarsMehmet Bilge AslanTülay BursaAsiye DinçsoyHizir loses his wife Halime, who has been in intensive care for a long time. Her daughter, Hatice, learns from the nurse Evren, who had been devotedly helping her ailing mother, that he caused her mother's death. Hatice tries to be compassionate to her father, who comes to her house. She refrains from revealing the truth to him, but after a while, she can't keep this secret anymore and shares it with her sister, Kader. While thinking that they should tell Evren's confession to their father, Kader thinks they should go to the police. Kader's persistence on her sister creates an existential problem for Hatice, who is crushed under the weight of Evren's confession. All family members have to face the truth at a family dinner.
- DirectorBelmin SöylemezStarsManolya MayaLaçin CeylanSenay AydinAylin, Frida and Lale struggle to hold on to their independence in increasingly conservative Istanbul, when their paths cross at Lale's acting courses.
- DirectorBaris FertStarsDeniz IsinHaki BiçiciEce Bozkaya1992, Istanbul. Deniz, who lost her ability to empathize and feelings many years ago, has turned into a crime machine. Thanks to her emotionless nature, she improved her economic conditions and became someone in certain business circles. The information that a mysterious computer software is in Istanbul reaches Deniz, Rasit, and Önder, who are together in the state-mafia-politics triangle in which Deniz works. Deniz and Rasit get this software by force. This mysterious software is sent to England on the night of the events via a satellite dish. 4 million dollars is deposited into Önder's account in exchange for the software. Those who knew of the existence of four million dollars and this priceless software have whetted their appetites. Anyone who wants to get past their pursuers and get the money and software find themselves in a chaotic adventure that takes place in one night.
- DirectorKaan MüjdeciStarsSaadet AksoyAkira MoriErtan SabanWhat happens, when an ordinary family in one of the arguably most advanced cities in the world starts living in two different worlds? What happens, when that fine line between reality and fantasy begins to blur, when a computer game controls the space you live in, re-defines your real life?
- DirectorOrçun KöksalStarsAli Seçkiner AliciSezin BozaciMünir Can CindorukTwo zoologists are on a journey in Anatolia, researching the extinct Anatolian panther. Their quest for the panther make them question themselves and what they know. They will find much more than the panther they were seeking.
- DirectorOnur SaylakStarsKivanç TatlitugFunda EryigitGürgen ÖzA couple from Istanbul, settling in a village in the Aegean region to start a new and peaceful life. However, they will quickly realize that they have many enemies in this village.
- DirectorAyse PolatStarsKatja BürkleAhmet VarliÇagla YurgaA German film team is shooting a documentary in northeastern Turkey. In a remote Kurdish village, they witness an elderly woman performing a recurring ritual to keep the memory of her missing son alive. The Kurdish translator of the German crew is also the nanny of Melek, a 7-year-old Turkish girl. Her father, Zafer, works for a sinister organization and is caught between loyalty to them and fear for his family's well-being when his daughter appears to be haunted by a mysterious force. The fateful encounter of these people develops a destructive power. IN THE BLIND SPOT unravels a complex net of conspiracy, paranoia and generational trauma.
- DirectorBekir BülbülStarsSerkan BilgiEmine CiftciBahadir EfeIn South Eastern Anatolia Musa carries the corpse of deceased wife to the homeland with granddaughter. They face difficulties as they get closer to a country at war, they get caught up by the police they separate in different destinations.
- DirectorÇigdem SezginStarsNurcan ErenTarik PapuççuogluFirat TanisFifty year old, Suna has no income and finds a place to live by marrying an old man. She takes care of the man but hates going to bed with him. She gets depressed and starts drinking secretly.
- DirectorDervis ZaimStarsMustafa SerttasMetin BilmenDervis CebicCrime considers the themes of crime, crime addiction, society and freedom through the personality of Mustafa Serttas, a.k.a. the Devil (Tavuri) who spent half his life behind bars for theft and fraud. Mustafa Serttas, a primary school dropout raised in a poor, broken home in Cyprus, began stealing as a child. He later developed this early experience into a lifestyle or, as he put it, an 'obsession'. Director, Dervis Zaim knew Mustafa Serttas from the age of eight. The director managed to film the last five years of his life, right up until his death. Some of the filming was carried out during Serttas' time in jail. At the beginning of the film director visits his old friend in the jail and we realize that he has questions in his mind: After last release from prison, can Tavuri manage to create a new life or would he choose to suicide in slow pace? Is there still a chance for him to have compassion even if he may be the biggest 'con artist' of the country? Mustafa Serttas, a primary school dropout raised in a poor, broken home in Northern Cyprus, began stealing as a child. He later developed this early experience into a lifestyle or, as he put it, an 'obsession'. He spent a good half of his life behind bars in Lefkosa's Central Prison. He is well-known for never having used violence during his career as a thief. Married and divorced three times, he had one daughter. When he wasn't in jail, he led an extravagant life of luxury, but was also generous with his money. He was diagnosed by psychologists with personality disorder. He scammed Lefkosa's Central Prison at two different times. The extraordinary thing was that on both occasions he was an inmate at the time. This probably makes him the only prisoner to rob the jail from the inside during two different prison terms. Serttas died in 2019. Director, Dervis Zaim knew Mustafa Serttas from the age of eight. The director managed to film the last five years of his life, right up until his death. Some of the filming was carried out during Serttas' time in jail.
- DirectorSofia AlaouiStarsOumaima BaridMehdi DehbiFouad OughaouAs she nears the end of her pregnancy, Itto and her in-laws find their lives turned upside down by a supernatural event.
- DirectorJuly JungStarsKim Si-EunBae DoonaChoi Hee-jinHigh school student Sohee starts training for a job at a call center but the greed of her company leads to her death. Detective Oh Yu-jin, who has something in common with Sohee, starts to probe her demise and finds an unsettling truth.
- DirectorElena López RieraStarsLuna PamiésAlberto OlmoNieve de MedinaIn a small village in south-eastern Spain a popular old belief claims that some women are predestined to disappear with each flood where a storm threatens to cause the river in the village that runs through it to overflow again.
- DirectorMartin SkovbjergStarsAngela BundalovicJonas Holst SchmidtZlatko BuricA young woman named Ida disappears without a trace. Her boyfriend voluntarily lets himself be locked up to be questioned by Ida's father and brother, but Sander does not tell the whole truth.
- DirectorPietro MarcelloStarsRaphaël ThiéryJuliette JouanNoémie LvovskyThe emancipation of a woman over twenty years, between 1919 and 1939, a time of great inventions and great dreams.
- DirectorRolf de HeerStarsNatasha WanganeenCraig BehennaMwajemi HusseinFollowed by BlackWoman, who is abandoned in a cage in the middle of the desert. Once she escapes the cage, she walks from desert to mountain to city, to find - more captivity.
- DirectorDmytro Sukholytkyy-SobchukStarsOleksandr YatsentyukStanislav PotiakSolomiia KyrylovaPamfir wants to be a decent family man, but challenging circumstances force him to give up honest breadwinning to help his family.
- DirectorHouman SeyyediStarsMohsen TanabandehMahsa HejaziNeda JebraeiliAfter being cast in a movie, a day laborer has to secretly shelter his lover on the set or else risk losing her and all that movie stardom has promised him.
- DirectorLila AvilésStarsNaíma SentíesMontserrat MarañonMarisol GaséSeven-year-old Sol is spending the day at her grandfather's home, for a surprise party for Sol's father, Tonatiuh. As daylight fades, Sol comes to understand that her world is about to change dramatically.
- DirectorLaura Mora OrtegaStarsCarlos Andrés CastañedaDavison FlorezBrahian AcevedoFollows five young men and about the marginalized, excluded humanity who seeks a place in the world.
- DirectorAngela SchanelecStarsAliocha SchneiderAgathe BonitzerMarisha TriantafyllidouAbandoned as a baby, Jon finds himself in prison on a manslaughter charge. He falls in love with prison guard Iro, unaware of their fateful connection.
- DirectorKei IshikawaStarsSakura AndôYôko MakiSatoshi TsumabukiAkira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform a background check on her late husband Daisuke.
- DirectorAlice DiopStarsKayije KagameGuslagie MalandaValérie DrévilleFollows Rama, a novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly at the Saint-Omer Criminal Court to use her story to write a modern-day adaptation of the ancient myth of Medea, but things don't go as expected.
- DirectorMani HaghighiStarsNavid MohammadzadehTaraneh AlidoostiAli BagheriA married couple believe they meet their doppelgängers in Tehran.