In Istanbul, the Kurdish immigrants are constantly hassled by the cops. Mehmet is arrested for something he hasn’t done and beaten up in prison. Later, his new friend, Berzan, who scrapes a living selling music tapes from a barrow, is killed in police custody. Mehmet is determined to take Berzan’s body back to his village in the south. That is the coffin bit, which becomes a genuine adventure. A silent cry for freedom and peace, a movie that expresses the wish of people living peacefully together.
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Released from jail on serious health issues after being sentenced 10 years earlier as a university student activist, Yusuf returns to his village in the eastern Black Sea region. In the modest house tucked in the beautiful mountains, he reunites with his longing elderly mother. She lovingly takes care of him while he spends idle days resting and occasionally meeting his childhood friend Mikail in the village. One day Yusuf meets Eka, a beautiful young Georgian prostitute. With time and circumstances against them, the two misfits desperately try to connect.
An intellectual is exiled to a small, isolated mountain village in southeastern Turkey to work as a schoolteacher. The inhabitants have to fight a perpetual battle against hostile nature, and the teacher tries to combat the inhuman reality of this place where misery, indifference and the impossibility of communication reign. In this village, tragedy is trivialized by repetition and habit. But the children who remain have a marvelous will to survive…
The first film by Tayfun Pirselimoğlu. An autobiographical film based on Pirselimoglu’s childhood memories about his uncle, an overvoice narrates his uncle’s struggles to achieve flying alone.
In this remake of the 1973 horror hit The Exorcist, a 12 year old girl named Gul, living with her mother in a cozy, high society life in Istambul becomes possessed by the Satan himself through a Ouija board and a troubled psychiatrist and an experienced exorcist become the girl’s only hope for salvation.
In Istanbul, American writer James Baldwin muses about race, the American fascination with sexuality, insights into his interrupted writing decade in the country, the generosity of the Turks, and how being in another country, in another place, forces one to re-examine well-established attitudes about modern society.
Told from the perspective of two children, The Small Town describes the relationship between members of an extended family in a small Turkish town. Told in four parts which unfold with the seasons, the film is a touching and bittersweet portrait of childhood and fears. Intimately observed and beautifully shot, Ceylan’s feature debut won the Caligari Prize at the 1998 Berlin Film Festival.
Yusuf, released from prison after having served a ten-year sentence, goes to Izmir to visit his sister. Facing past family troubles and having no other place to go, he settles down in a cheap, run-down hotel. Soon, his path crosses with that of a strange family. In Yusuf’s struggle to survive, Bekir, Ugur and their daughter, Cilem, are initially a glimpse of hope, which, later on, turns into a devastating destiny.