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Türkçe
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Part-fantasy, past religious epic, Çagan Irmak's film underlines the importance of being true to oneself, even if life's circumstances turn against you. Zekeriya, a doctor (Çetin Tekindor) who visits a village and begins to tell mysterious stories of the past, present and future to a group of children and adults. The stories focus on the power of God, the importance of remaining true to oneself and the need to overcome tyranny. The center of his...
2) Crossroads
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Language
Türkçe
Description
When they were kids, Bunyamin and his brother Yusuf fell in love with the same girl, Zeliha, but a childish game leads to Zeliha's death. Bunyamin can never forgive himself and face up to his brother, instead he keeps running away from home with excuses. After his graduation, he drifts to Bosnia to help with the discovery of victims' bodies from the mass graves. The emotional pressure of his job brings his past back to him in his dreams, however instead...
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Türkçe
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The story is set in 1978 on the Istranca Mountains of Thracia. Known as a healer by the villagers, Cennet's humble and quiet life is changed when she runs into a stranger, Ertan, covered in blood in the garden which she calls "Secret Garden". Killing several people in a skirmish with law enforcement, Ertan has been shot while escaping. While Cennet heals the wounded stranger day by day, love that they cannot prevent begins to emerge despite their...
4) Upper Floors
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Türkçe
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Selahattin is a math teacher in his 40s. He has a passion for poetry, lives alone on the lower floor of an apartment building, and is in platonic love with Ms. Alev, a doctor who lives on the top floor. He writes poems on scraps of paper and deposits them secretly in Alev's mailbox. His life soon spins out of control when duplicitous family members try to extort money from him for their business and he hastily ends up in a loveless marriage of convenience....
5) The Cut
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Language
Türkçe
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THE CUT follows the journey of one father's search through the Ottoman Empire for his two daughters after they are separated during the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
6) Inflame
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Language
Türkçe
Description
Hasret has a recurring nightmare from which she disengages every morning. But what she experiences is not a dream – it's memories. As she returns from her job to a flat left to her after her parents' death twenty years earlier, questions from her dreams slowly begin to emerge: did her parents really die in a car crash?
7) Lost Birds
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Language
Türkçe
Description
It is 1915 in an Armenian village. Bedo and Maryam return from their secret dovecote only to find an empty house and a ghost village. The children embark on a journey to search for their mother, along with their bird Bacik.
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Language
Türkçe
Description
FEHMI, a 19-year-old aspiring rapper from a rough neighborhood of Istanbul, is addicted to bonzai, a cheap and deadly drug, jeopardizing his dreams of becoming a successful rapper. When Fehmi crosses paths with DEVIN, a 25-year-old affluent DJ, they fall hard for each other and find the inspiration they were lacking. But the flaming and troubled love of this unlikely duo soon becomes toxic.
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Türkçe
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A film of the intersecting stories of seven people on the edge of society as narrated by a fly - yes, a FLY called Milica. The intertwining quirky tales of love, friendship and commitment involve a gynecologist trying to keep the junkie son of a dead friend out of trouble; three buddies who hang out at a video store with hopes and dreams of a brighter future; and a radio host with Asperger's who falls for a young woman who makes clothes for trees....
10) More
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Language
Türkçe
Description
Gaza and his domineering father smuggle refugees from war-torn countries to Europe, giving them temporary lodgings and scant food until they attempt the crossing. Gaza dreams of escaping this life, but can't help being drawn into a dark world of immorality, exploitation and human suffering. Adapted from the award-winning novel, More is one of the first to show the refugee crisis; a gripping story of a boy that gets to grow up in a world where there's...
11) Saf
Publisher
Doc & Film International
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (101 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Türkçe
Description
Istanbul. In the area of Fikirtepe. Urban transformation is sweeping away the poor communities and Syrian refugees take shelter in deserted buildings. Kamil and his wife Remziye are threatened to lose their house. Being unemployed for a while, Kamil has no other choice than to secretly accept a job at the construction site. He is not only taking away the job from a Syrian refugee, but also working for the company that destroys his own area. Oppression...
12) Sibel
Publisher
Synergetic Distribution
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Türkçe
Description
SIBEL lives with her dad and sister in a mountain village. She’s mute, but can “talk” by whistling. Estranged, she tries to gain respect by capturing a feared wolf no one has seen. Then she runs into a fugitive, the first who sees her as an equal.
13) Times and winds
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 111 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Türkçe
Description
Winner of the Best Film and Fipresci prizes at the Istanbul International Film Festival, Reha Erdem's Times and winds is a film "bewitched by the rhythms of everyday life" (The village voice). "Magnificent ... A humanist epic!" - LA Weekly.
14) The Announcement
Publisher
Synergetic Distribution
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Türkçe
Description
During a tumultuous revolution, a group of military officers plan a coup to take down the government, by taking over the National Radio station and making a formal announcement. But nothing goes to plan. Faced with countless obstacles, the conspirators scramble to keep their plan on track. A wry commentary on Turkey’s uneasy political past and present. Biting political satire meets subtle comedy in a film that highlights absurdity without ever being...
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (157 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Türkçe
Description
In the dead of night, a group of men—among them, a police commissioner, a prosecutor, a doctor and a murder suspect—drive through the Anatolian countryside, the serpentine roads and rolling hills lit only by the headlights of their cars. They are searching for a corpse, the victim of a brutal murder. The suspect, who claims he was drunk, can't remember where he buried the body. As night wears on, details about the murder emerge and the investigators'...
16) Winter Sleep
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (196 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Türkçe
Description
A hotel owner and landlord in a remote Turkish village deals with conflicts within his family and a tenant behind on his rent. Winner of the Palme d'Or and the FIPRESCI Prize at the **Cannes Film Festival.** Nominated for Best Foreign Film at the **César Awards**. *"...feels very much like an epic novel, mirroring the pacing and themes of Chekov, whose work was its inspiration." - Betsy Sharkey, **The Los Angeles Times*** *"...impeccably acted morality...
17) Bliss
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 106 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Türkçe
Description
Based on the acclaimed novel by Zülfü Livaneli and set amidst Turkey’s natural wonders, Bliss is a riveting tale about love, honor, freedom and redemption. When a 17-year-old girl, Meryem, is found unconscious and disheveled by the side of a lake, her family believes the worst – that her chastity has been lost. To uphold the family honor they turn to an ancient moral code that condemns Meryem to death. A distant cousin, Cemal, is ordered to...
18) Watchtower
Series
Film Movement volume 11, film 10
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Türkçe
Description
Haunted by a tragic incident, Nihat isolated himself by becoming a fire warden in a remote observation tower far out in the wilderness. Seher lives in a makeshift room at a rural bus station, and she has taken a job as a bus hostess to escape her own traumatic past. Destined to come to a crossroads, they go about their solitary lives until their fates collide. Beginning at first as muted antagonism, their relationship quickly turns into tender domesticity...
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (189 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Türkçe
Description
Sinan, an aspiring writer, returns home after university hoping to scrape together enough money to publish his first novel. He wanders the town encountering old flames and obstinate gatekeepers and finds his youthful ambition increasingly at odds with the deferred dreams of his gambling-addict father. As his own fantasies mingle with reality, Sinan grapples with the people and the place that have made him who he is. Following in the great tradition...
20) A Regular Woman
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Türkçe
Description
Based on the tragic “honor killing” of Hatun Aynur Sürücü in 2005, the film A REGULAR WOMAN portrays a glimpse of life for a free spirited young woman living with an ultra-conservative Turkish Muslim family in Berlin. After escaping a forced marriage in Turkey with her abusive cousin, Hatun provokes the ire of her family by embracing a westernized lifestyle. After enduring endless harassment, she finally leaves the family and attempts to survive...
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