A Long Story

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.

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.

Although they are in their early forties, twin brothers Tayfun and Taykan, who live in a nursing home, are passionately devoted to music. The twins, who call their musical group "Glassy Stares", isolate themselves from life and spend their time writing lyrics and composing. Glassy Stares; an ecstatic insight into the truth in the mists of schizophrenia; knotting the bond with reality with guitar strings; It is a story of brotherhood in which the subjects are mixed with praise and the transformation into music by going beyond making music.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In a modern art museum, the Girl on Duty (20-21) accidentally hangs the painting that came for display upside down. We watch the whole movie through the eyes of Frame, we never see the picture. People who visit the art museum do not realize that the Frame is wrong and comment on their own perception of art. The Girl in Charge realizes her mistake at the end of the day and fixes the Frame. But everyone who came throughout the day determined the artistic value of the Frame themselves.

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…

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.

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?

This movie is about an old woman Türkan's encounter with one of her oldest friends years later. Türkan comes to the hospital with her daughter and coincidentally meets Nermin. During the chemotherapy session, Nermin seems pleased to talk to Türkan about the good old days. However, when Türkan leaves the hospital, she seems very upset about this meeting.