Pelin
Esmer
Turkey, France, Germany
An elderly man clashes with his neighbours as they try to remove him -- and his elaborate collections of ephemera -- from his apartment.
Emre
Sahin
Turkey, USA
Capturing the dazzling intensity of Istanbul's twelve million souls, Sahin's groundbreaking feature crisscrosses the lives of a petty crook, an ambitious nurse and an African migrant as they seek money, luck or just a way out.
Yoel
Meranda
Turkey
An abstract, impish spot of light leads the camera onto Istanbul's streets.
Zeki
Demirkubuz
Turkey
Zeki Demirkubuz's career-launching feature debut dissects the melancholy and repression inherent in bourgeois life in dreary apartment blocks.
Theron
Patterson
Turkey
A black comedy with the style of a lucid dream, Dark Cloud looks at a middle-aged man who can't move on from the death of his wife, and the teenaged son who needs him to wake up.
Nuri
Bilge Ceylan
Turkey
Distant maps Nuri Bilge Ceylan's signature exploration of existential heartache onto the wintry shores of Istanbul.
Tayfun
Pirselimoglu
Turkey, Greece
An ailing Istanbul wig-maker becomes obsessed with a woman who enters his shop one day.
Seren
Yüce
Turkey
A middle class young man rebels against his father's brutish authority and seeks a rough romance with a woman of ethnic minority. Yuce's moral tale draws from the example of today's Turkish youth and the timeless shadow of father...
Reha
Erdem
Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria
A potent, widescreen portrait of an Istanbul wild child. Hayat lives in a shack beside the Bosphorus sea with her criminal father and wheezing grandfather. Life is harsh, but Hayat watches and learns.
Yoel
Meranda
Turkey
This whiplash montage of Istanbul's urban imagery conveys a pure sense of speed and disorientation.
Burçak
Kaygun
Turkey
A painterly composition explores movement and sound in the abstract as skaters on a winter ice rink swirl round and round.
Yoel
Meranda
Turkey
A politician's televised speech is utterly transformed into stunning abstraction.
Eytan
Ipeker
Turkey
This short is a visual compedium of experimental techniques, all uncannily mined from footage of the filmmaker's piano keys.
Özlem
Sulak
Turkey, Germany
In this meditative and monumental examination of the legacy of Turkey’s 1980 military coup, individual narrations of the tumultuous event are juxtaposed with quotidian routines, thirty years on.
Dervis
Zaim
Turkey
A thief with bizarre compulsions -- and possibly good reasons -- tries to get by in this essential Istanbul film.
Yoel
Meranda
Turkey
Yoel Meranda completely transforms brief footage of a ferry trip across the Bosphorus.
Belmin
Söylemez
Turkey
This striking short film focuses on the boys and young men who jump into the Bosphorus's to escape the city and the heat.