Movies: Emrullah Çakay

Three strangers with one thing in common — the same father — come to a Turkish village to bury him, and learn about him and each other....

Turkish director Ali Vatansever weighs the human cost of politically motivated urban renewal in his achingly resonant second feature, about a young couple forced to compromise their ideals and work for the very industry encroaching on their Istanbul ...

It is near future story in Anatolia. There is no indication of time and place, an post-apocalyptic world that ruled over by primitive technology. Zait, a loyal mine worker who works for a mine factory which is managed by unknowns, declares war agains...

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The story of her grandmother’s old suitcase moves Hazal to understand her kurdish families past and carry on the legacy...

A magical realist, inner drama about a soldier who, when negotiating a minefield steps on a landmine and in his inner turmoil, he imagines he encounters a mirror that is a gateway into one very specific memory....

Arif has to take care of his father, who is bedridden and has diabetes. The change of his lover's ideas about life, forces Arif to make a choice between the life of his father, who had left him, and his journey to freedom....

Sait, a man committed to his faith, has turned his back on the material world. This peaceful existence is shattered by a news story he sees on television and a municipal worker who comes knocking on his door in the middle of the night....

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