Glassy Stares

Combining the arts of animation and marbling with real images, Zigzag focuses on the story of a woman in a headscarf who is stranded in the middle of the sea on a mixed beach.

Adel was only 12 years old when the civil war in Syria spread to Aleppo. His family first decides to leave the city they live in and then the country. During the 4 years following this process, Adel and his family travel from country to country in search of a home, they lie on the streets and face hunger and disease. However, their life will change completely one day with the message they receive from a Greek-based refugee organization; A small Scandinavian country, which they had never heard of before, accepted Adel and her family as temporary citizens. Now Adel has to learn to adapt to the cold climate and distant society of Estonia, while healing the wounds of the past.

With the end of the “Peace Process” in 2015, I witnessed the conflict that broke out between the PKK and government forces in the Sur region of Diyarbakır. I was a freelance journalist at that time, witnessing this terrible event caused me a trauma. Years later, I turned these images in my archive into a documentary. I prepared this documentary by reflecting on the witness, migration and urban memory. It was very sad to take such bad footage with my camera. After these images, the Sur region was demolished, and absurd houses are now being built instead of demolished houses.

A documentary about a man who as established himself as a Uzbek dog walker in the Cihangir, where the intellectual people have lived in heart of İstanbul, for 10 years. We will see about this man, who looks like a loser and quite type, whom most of people sees as one of his family, and what he accomplished in 10 years.

The story of the journey back to the past of the third and fifth generation women of a family who had to leave their homeland due to the population exchange between Turkey and Greece. Will they be able to take the land they took from their families' graves to their hometown of Kavala?

Dede Colak works as a shepherd in Aladağ district of Adana. Due to the high rate of child deaths in the village where they live, the families sought to go to the shrines and to give different names to the children born. Taking his name from the tomb of Koyun Dede, Dede lives the name given to him as fate and continues his daily life by carrying the difficulties that come from being a shepherd. The only dream of Dede, who cannot reconcile with his family and village people about marriage, migration to the city and work, is to marry.

Istanbul is one of the rare cities with the most intense cultural heritage in today's world, with a history of over 5,000 years. For example, in an ordinary street of Beşiktaş, you can see a fountain that has been "partially preserved" despite tens of layers of asphalt on it, and lacks historical and cultural explanation. It is possible to observe undefined and unexplained history and culture all over Istanbul. Look at whatever angle you want to look at, consciously or out of ignorance, but the truth is that Istanbul has been presented to people by being undefined. The aim of this fictional documentary is to raise the awareness of the viewer towards the cultural self of the city, which is of great importance, by questioning the realism of the fictional documentary.

Erdal spent two years in prison for human trafficking. One of the days when Erdal was selling, he saw a refugee he knew from the smuggling period on the road. Erdal follows the refugee and watches his house and family from afar. He then continues to work, but the refugee's memories haunt him and he decides to confront the refugee.

Ufuk and Ömer are two imaginative brothers, 10-11 years old, living with their parents in a rural area near the border. One day, they see a documentary about fishermen on TV and they set out to make their own fishing rods. But to fish, they have to reach the lake beyond the border. Meanwhile, their father, Mesut, is troubled by financial difficulties that are limiting his and his family's lives, and he accepts an illegal job he thought he would never do to improve their situation. In parallel, the motivations of fathers and sons, who are trying to find their own way to overcome their limits, are very different from each other and their jobs are not easy at all.

Asya works in a clothing store and also takes care of her mother and younger brother. It needs a new coat for cold weather in winter. However, he cannot balance the money.

Omar is a young man who started out as a taxi driver. To get rid of his financial problems, he returns to the place he once went to gamble. He gambles away money that doesn't belong to him, and his way out of this situation takes him to a darker spot.

The man is a murderer who kills people in exchange for the Water of Life given to him. He takes pictures of certain people in certain places and times and steals the lives of the people he photographed by imprisoning them in photographic film. In the brutality and monotony of his work, he has lost all his human qualities over time and leads a callous life. One day, when an ordinary young woman confronts him with a similar target, he begins to take things slow. When the young woman notices him and smiles, he cannot do the professional routine he is used to. He then begins to study the people around him, imitating their breathing, movements, and expressions. As man begins to rediscover his emotions, he will have to choose between the woman's life and his own.

One winter night, a young man goes for a walk around a small town with his two nephews. The young man promised to show the children the wolves. They taunt an old man passing by, which causes the young man to change his mind.

A public toilet cleaner is concerned about her pregnancy test on a normal day of her work.

A shy woman secretly watches her crush from across the factory floor. The moon disappears. Things start to fall apart. With the world breaking into pieces like a giant jigsaw puzzle and her crush’s life in danger, our heroine struggles to hold herself together. How will she solve this moon mystery? Time to go out on a limb and take matters into her own hands. Armstrong is a film about strength that plays with the building blocks of the universe.

The house of Judah was burned. An absurd document demanding payment of the fire brigade drags the boy to the fire station to object.

“Of the Wild Black Dog” is a self-portrait based on a few dreams, shot with a super 8mm camera in Syria and Germany.

While babysitting Charlotte, 17-year-old Julianne decides to take a pregnancy test. Before seeing the result, the 7-year-old interrupts Julianne's work and pulls her into her pure, childlike universe.

The story is about a suffocation city. That everyone opposes dictatorship, the smallest punishment is the cutting of the ear. In a rainy night, a man finds an ear on the ground…

He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.