“Of the Wild Black Dog” is a self-portrait based on a few dreams, shot with a super 8mm camera in Syria and Germany.
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.
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.
A public toilet cleaner is concerned about her pregnancy test on a normal day of her work.
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.
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.
As a civilian group with a woman about to give birth fleeing to the safe zone from the Serbian genocide with a sizzling radio, they find that they are not by the river with the dog barking they hear, but they are on the side of something else ...
Kamil earns his living as a watchman at a seaside location with his family. As people leave their summer homes and get ready for winter, it seems that a harsh and calm winter awaits Kamil and his family. Besides the financial difficulties Kamil had, he was left completely alone with his internal conflict.
Kurds living in a village in eastern Turkey Seyithan (12), Arabian Nights fairy tale meets with the teacher by classmates and the school looks for a way of finding missing stories.
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.
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?
Anoush, a little girl, goes to borrow a wedding dress from a distant relative for her brother's wedding. Leyla, a teacher, comes home as a second intruder. Leyla has just been appointed to the village school. She learns that the village school had been abandoned many years ago and that there is no children in the school age. On the other hand, Anoush could not learn to write although he could read because her teacher resigned and left the village. Transportation between villages takes place once a day. Anoush and Leyla are forced to spend the night in the same house. Will the two passengers get what they want despite the long road?
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…
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.
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.
The house of Judah was burned. An absurd document demanding payment of the fire brigade drags the boy to the fire station to object.
He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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.
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.
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.