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- DirectorÖmer KavurStarsCem DavranTamer ÇelikerHakan TanferWhen their father is killed in blood feud, Yusuf and Kenan, two shepherd boys, flee to Istanbul in search of their uncle. They become involved with the street boys, and Yusuf turns to crime while Kenan wants to learn a trade.
- DirectorAli ÖzgentürkStarsBektas AltinokIlhami BekirErol DemirözThe tragedy of a father and son who came from the village to the city for the sake of his ideals and struggled to live in the city.
- DirectorJürgen HaaseStarsEjder AkisikOrhan AydinNursim DemirAbout the six-year-old Ali, who lives in a village in Central Anatolia, and his best friend, a young rooster named Gülibik, with whom he feels deeply connected and shares joys and sorrows with him.
- DirectorMetin ErksanStarsNil GöncüHayati HamzaogluAliye RonaIn an atmosphere getting darker, and darker and almost without any dialogue, a young woman is kidnapped over and over by an obsessed man.
- DirectorZeki ÖktenStarsGenco ErkalAsuman ArsanAhmet SezerelPeople run to bankers with the dream of living in prosperity. Kamil also sells his retirement bonus, three months' salary and his house, giving all his money to the bankers. One day they receive the news that the bankers have escaped.
- DirectorBay OkanStarsBay OkanBjörn GeddaTuncel KurtizA group of illegal immigrants are brought to Stockholm in a bus by a smuggler who takes all their money and passports, and then runs away.
- DirectorÖmer KavurStarsMacit KoperSahika TekandSerra YilmazThe lonely proprietor of a small hotel in a provincial Turkish town develops a passion for a departed guest and the reality of routine everyday-life starts crumbling into pieces.
- DirectorErden KiralStarsAytaç ArmanSerif SezerZihni KüçümenA writer who lost his friend as a result of assassination leaves everything and returns to the island where he grew up. One day he witnesses a murder. This event will cause him to face the political conflicts he thought he had left behind.
- DirectorAli ÖzgentürkStarsTürkan SorayTalat BulutHarun YesilyurtHazal is married off to her late husband's brother in his early teens. As she develops a motherly affection for the child groom, she falls in love with mason Emin.
- DirectorAtif YilmazStarsTürkan SorayOguz TunçMüsfik KenterCoskun, who grew up in an orphanage, has been in love with the very famous film star Derya Altinay all of his life. His only purpose in life is to meet her one day and write a film script for her. He is so much in love with her that he believes that he lives with the two film characters which she performed in her old movies.
- DirectorNesli ÇölgeçenStarsSener SenErdal ÖzyagcilarNilgün NazliThe landlord of a village in eastern Turkey decides to sell his land after a severe drought and migrates to Istanbul with his family. However the struggle for survival in the 'big city' will not be easier for them.
- DirectorYusuf KurçenliStarsTarik AkanBülent BilgiçNurseli IdizThe story of a teacher who is also a writer, trying to hide from the police during WWII in Turkey. He is wanted because of his leftist articles and books.
- DirectorZülfü LivaneliStarsRutkay AzizYavuzer ÇetinkayaMacide TanirDespite the hostility of the mayor, the villagers of Anatolia regard as a saint the man who defends them against a creditor of the city.
- DirectorIrfan TözümStarsHülya AvsarHakan UralGüzin ÖzipekThe love story of a Turkish girl and a Greek man who grew up together.
- DirectorTürkan SorayStarsTürkan SorayTalat BulutMahmut CevherEsme, the most beautiful of the village she lives in, is in love with Abbas, the valiant young man of the village, but she was married to Halim, the village lord.
- DirectorHark BohmStarsAyse RomeyUwe BohmSener Sen20-year-old Casanova Jan falls in love with 17-year-old Turkish girl Yasemin, who lives in Germany with her family. She's well-protected by her father, who believes in the Turkish traditions. She must struggle for every little freedom that her German friends might take for granted, but she still respects and loves her father and keeps the appearance of an honorable Turkish girl, but her love for Jan disturbs this fine balance. So it's not hate or quarrel that interferes with their love, but the differences of their cultures.
- DirectorÖmer KavurStarsMacit KoperSahika TekandSerra YilmazThe lonely proprietor of a small hotel in a provincial Turkish town develops a passion for a departed guest and the reality of routine everyday-life starts crumbling into pieces.
- DirectorSahin KaygunStarsAsli AltanMacit KoperKenan Bal
- DirectorOrhan OguzStarsTalat BulutSerif SezerBülent OranAfter serving a jail sentence, Hasan gets a job driving a hearse for the protestant church, and becomes involved with a widow, Ayse, and her son.
- DirectorSahin KaygunKemal UzunStarsMüjde ArTarik TarcanMacit KoperBiography of Turkish stage actress and the first Muslim theatre actress in Turkey.
- DirectorMerlyn SolakhanStarsAyse Siir ÖkeMustafa IrgatZümrüt PekinFollows a thirtyish woman returning home to Istanbul from Germany.
- DirectorZülfü LivaneliStarsRutkay AzizSevtap ParmanAsli AltanIt's brother against brother in a turbulent period in Turkey. Former judge Ali Firat is dragged into the turmoil when his son Murat is killed. Is it his brother with the opposite view that killed him in this political turmoil environment?
- DirectorSuha ArinStarsSureyya ArinAlain LaurenceauSacit OnanThe "Until Eternity" documentary, which was prepared in commemoration of the 1988 International Mimar Sinan Year, reflects the life and works of the great architect. It is composed of six parts, each lasting half an hour. Many experts in Arabic, Persian and Ottoman languages, architects, art historians and social anthropologists worked for The Mimar Sinan Research Center which was founded within MTV for the preparation of the documentary. The Center mainly dealt with the life and structural activities of Mimar Sinan and held comparative studies on Ottoman administrators who lived in the same era while analyzing the political, social, economical and cultural events in Europe and Asia. More than ten thousand information tags were prepared for this purpose. The "Until Eternity" documentary was completed in a year and a half with shootings held in more than thirty provinces covering a total distance of 40,000 km within the Turkish borders. Shootings were also held in Greece, Hungary, Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union and Syria. "Until Eternity" received the "Jury Special Award" at the 1989 Lausanne International Film Festival on Architecture and Urbanization, the "Architecture Award" at the 1990 UNESCO International Art Films Competition and the "Council of Europe Special Award" at the 1990 Bordeaux Festival of Films on Architecture and Urban Planning.
- DirectorSuha ArinStarsIan ShearsDuring the researches of Suha Arin and his team on Sinan the Architect which was intensified in 1988, a booklet called "Tezkiret-ül Bünyan" in which the memories of Sinan took place was translated to modern Turkish. Meanwhile, a painting of Sinan which was made while he was alive was discovered by chance in one of the miniatures brought from a library found in Ireland. Consequently, new details on Sinan was acquired. How did Hüseyin Anka interpret Sinan in his mental image with the limited data of that time as a sculptor, who had the responsibility to make a sculpture of Sinan, by winning a competition arranged upon the order of Atatürk to "make a sculpture of Sinan". After reading the memories of Sinan and seeing the miniature of him, how did Hüseyin Anka interpret and do it after 45 years old? "Re-evaluation of Sinan Through Hüseyin Anka" is the outcome of the searches of the director to find an answer for these questions. In this documentary, Hüseyin Anka, by working on a mud bust, reinterprets step by step the fifty-year period in which Sinan was a chief designer. This film is a phenomenon in which two artists, who came from a village and achieved a carrier with the state support, share their sorrow and question yesterday, today and tomorrow after 450 years by coming together in a workshop as the "real" artists who still perform their skills even in their 80s.
- DirectorFehmi YasarStarsGenco ErkalDeniz GökçerSerif SezerA scenario writer who struggles to have any of them filmed, delves into problems of his housemaid.
- DirectorXavier KollerStarsNecmettin ÇobanogluNur SürerEmin SivasThe story of a poor Turkish family who try to emigrate illegally to Switzerland.
- DirectorReha ErdemStarsYesim TozanGülsen TuncerNurinisa YildirimA young girl with a vivid imagination exasperates her grandparents when she begins communicating with the ghost of her mother.
- DirectorSergei ParajanovDodo AbashidzeStarsYuri MgoyanSofiko ChiaureliRamaz ChkhikvadzeA talented but poor minstrel is forced to wander throughout the world because of impossibility to be with his true love - a rich merchant's daughter.
- DirectorAtif YilmazStarsMüjde ArMacit KoperYilmaz ZaferAfter Serap, the theatre actress, acts in an advertisement, she loses her identity and become a housewife with two children. The movie is about dilemma of Serap and Naciye.
- DirectorErtem EgilmezStarsSener SenMüjde ArUgur YücelIll fated lovers, Sener and Mujde, who can never come together because of endless obstacles and misunderstandings, slowly drift into the plaintive world of arabesque music.
- DirectorNesli ÇölgeçenStarsSevket AltugÜstün AsutayZarife, a trained bear and Imdat, her Gipsy master, earn their living on the streets by performing their traditional show. After getting caught and taken to forest by the city police one day, Zarife's natural instincts start to awake, making her restless to return back home, back to the forests.
- DirectorSuha ArinStarsSureyya ArinAlain LaurenceauSacit OnanThe "Until Eternity" documentary, which was prepared in commemoration of the 1988 International Mimar Sinan Year, reflects the life and works of the great architect. It is composed of six parts, each lasting half an hour. Many experts in Arabic, Persian and Ottoman languages, architects, art historians and social anthropologists worked for The Mimar Sinan Research Center which was founded within MTV for the preparation of the documentary. The Center mainly dealt with the life and structural activities of Mimar Sinan and held comparative studies on Ottoman administrators who lived in the same era while analyzing the political, social, economical and cultural events in Europe and Asia. More than ten thousand information tags were prepared for this purpose. The "Until Eternity" documentary was completed in a year and a half with shootings held in more than thirty provinces covering a total distance of 40,000 km within the Turkish borders. Shootings were also held in Greece, Hungary, Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union and Syria. "Until Eternity" received the "Jury Special Award" at the 1989 Lausanne International Film Festival on Architecture and Urbanization, the "Architecture Award" at the 1990 UNESCO International Art Films Competition and the "Council of Europe Special Award" at the 1990 Bordeaux Festival of Films on Architecture and Urban Planning.
- DirectorSuha ArinStarsIan ShearsDuring the researches of Suha Arin and his team on Sinan the Architect which was intensified in 1988, a booklet called "Tezkiret-ül Bünyan" in which the memories of Sinan took place was translated to modern Turkish. Meanwhile, a painting of Sinan which was made while he was alive was discovered by chance in one of the miniatures brought from a library found in Ireland. Consequently, new details on Sinan was acquired. How did Hüseyin Anka interpret Sinan in his mental image with the limited data of that time as a sculptor, who had the responsibility to make a sculpture of Sinan, by winning a competition arranged upon the order of Atatürk to "make a sculpture of Sinan". After reading the memories of Sinan and seeing the miniature of him, how did Hüseyin Anka interpret and do it after 45 years old? "Re-evaluation of Sinan Through Hüseyin Anka" is the outcome of the searches of the director to find an answer for these questions. In this documentary, Hüseyin Anka, by working on a mud bust, reinterprets step by step the fifty-year period in which Sinan was a chief designer. This film is a phenomenon in which two artists, who came from a village and achieved a carrier with the state support, share their sorrow and question yesterday, today and tomorrow after 450 years by coming together in a workshop as the "real" artists who still perform their skills even in their 80s.
- StarsNajiba HuseynovaThe animation about Stalin's Great Purge and repression victims.
- DirectorOguzhan TercanStarsHalil ErgünAyfer GürSalih KalyonThe film, which tells about the assassination of the famous Turkish journalist Abdi Ipekçi, who was killed in 1979, also describes the political climate and high tension environment in the country before the military coup on September 12, 1980.
- DirectorHans Andreas Guttner
- DirectorAndreas DresenStarsJana MattukatYüksel Yolcu
- DirectorXavier KollerStarsNecmettin ÇobanogluNur SürerEmin SivasThe story of a poor Turkish family who try to emigrate illegally to Switzerland.
- DirectorTevfik BaserStarsÖzay FechtYaman OkayDemir GökgölA Turk has brought a young Turk woman from Turkey to his flat in Germany. The woman does not know much about Germany nor can she speak German.
- DirectorTevfik BaserStarsGrazyna SzapolowskaMüsfik KenterGustav-Peter WöhlerI don't know, but when I saw this beautiful in the Cannes Festival in 1991, there was French subtitles. If we can find them, it's possible to translate them in English. I search them since many years, but I have not find.
- DirectorYusuf KurçenliStarsKamran UsluerOguz TunçYasemin ÖymenAli, who comes to his uncle's house, who lives in a coastal area to stay out of sight for a while due to political reasons, meets and falls in love with Vedia, his uncle's stepdaughter.
- DirectorÖmer KavurStarsKadir InanirZuhal OlcayYavuzer ÇetinkayaHasan, a little girl named Ayse and Sabahat begins a journey and they are being followed by their foes.
- DirectorIsil ÖzgentürkStarsAyla AlganMehmet AtakIsmet AyStory of daydreaming rebellious Rosa searching for love from her teenage years to her deathbed.
- DirectorReha ErdemStarsYesim TozanGülsen TuncerNurinisa YildirimA young girl with a vivid imagination exasperates her grandparents when she begins communicating with the ghost of her mother.
- DirectorIrfan TözümStarsTarik AkanHümeyraÜlkü ÜlkerAbout a director who fights for making a different film about relationships between the sexes..
- DirectorYusuf KurçenliStarsTarik AkanBülent BilgiçNurseli IdizThe story of a teacher who is also a writer, trying to hide from the police during WWII in Turkey. He is wanted because of his leftist articles and books.
- DirectorÖmer KavurStarsZuhal OlcayFikret KuskanSevda FerdagA young man, who came to Istanbul to study despite his father's objection, started photography when he was out of money. He takes souvenir photos for people in taverns. One day, a mysterious woman says she wants to see all the photos she took. The young photographer takes the photos he takes every morning to the woman.
- DirectorIsil ÖzgentürkStarsAyla AlganMehmet AtakIsmet AyStory of daydreaming rebellious Rosa searching for love from her teenage years to her deathbed.
- DirectorEngin AyçaStarsTürkan SorayEkrem BoraGülsen TuncerLeyla is a Turkish Classical Music artist. The death of Cemal, a conductor, is a great devastation for Leyla. She started to talk with Cemal Bey's relatives in order to better understand his feelings and thoughts.
- DirectorZeki ÖktenStarsTarik AkanMelike DemiragTuncel KurtizBecause of a local blood feud, a peasant family in eastern Turkey decides to sell its sheep in far away Ankara.
- DirectorZeki ÖktenStarsAytaç ArmanGüngör BayrakGüven SengilIsmail is out of work despite am obvious willingness to do almost anything to earn enough to provide for his family. He is too well educated for the jobs he hopes to find, but not well enough connected to find the work he is capable of doing.
- DirectorSerif GörenYilmaz GüneyStarsTarik AkanSerif SezerHalil ErgünWhen five Kurdish prisoners are granted one week's home leave, they find to their dismay that they face continued oppression outside of prison from their families, the culture, and the government.
- DirectorYilmaz GüneyStarsYilmaz GüneyGülsen AlniaçikTuncel KurtizWhen one of his horses is killed by an automobile, and when it is clear that neither justice nor charity will prevail, the man begins a slow slide into despair. On the advice of a local holy man, and fuelled by an indefatigable optimism, he sets out into the desert in quest of a mythical lost treasure, slipping further and further into that final, ineluctable moment.
- DirectorYilmaz GüneyStarsTuncel KurtizAyse Emel Mesci KurayMalik BerrichiTeens in a Turkish prison struggle to survive under hideous conditions.
- DirectorYilmaz GüneyStarsYilmaz GüneyKerim AfsarMelike DemiragAfter betraying his social class, denying his peasant roots and fleeing his native village, Cemil has become a successful businessman and has found a place in the sun among the bourgeoisie. Azem, his childhood friend, has followed a quite different way. refusing the rat race, he has remained close to people of humble origin.
- DirectorYilmaz GüneyStarsYilmaz GüneyHayati HamzaogluBilal InciCoban and his four comrades are smugglers who live in the bleak, inaccesable mountains. They are hard, pitiless men like the county they live in, whose daily commerce is in greed, danger, betrayal and murder.
- DirectorClaude WeiszStarsYilmaz GüneyFatos GüneyKerim Afsar"We Called Him the Ugly King" is a mockumentary about Turkey-based Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist, and actor Yilmaz Güney, shot three years after the filmmaker's death. It's also a political portrait of 20th century Turkey.
- DirectorBay OkanStarsIlyas SalmanValérie LemoineMicky SébastianThe film is based on 'Fikrimin Ince Gulu', a novel by Adalet Agaoglu, which depicts a first generation guest-worker returning home. It covers his land journey in short bursts from Germany to the Turkey's west border and extensively from thereon to his village close to Ankara.
- DirectorZeki DemirkubuzStarsSerap AksoyFikret KuskanZuhal GencerTulay, a restless woman whose marriage is slowly disintegrating sets out to come to terms with various traumas while continually being watched by Halit, a resident in her apartment complex.
- DirectorMahinur ErgunStarsMüsfik KenterZuhal OlcayFüsun DemirelAgâh, torn between his wife and mistress, whom he left years ago.
- DirectorErden KiralStarsKürsat AlniaçikMevlüt DemiryaySuavi ErenCevat Sakir is an exile punished for publishing an article regarding that government executed deserters from army, subsequently he was sent to Bodrum where he realized Bodrum is a heavenly place and decided to stay as he found a new family and a new life.
- DirectorZülfü LivaneliStarsTürkan SorayMehmet BalkizRana CabbarInspired by the treasure stories his grandfather told, one day, Yusuf and his friend started looking for treasures. Meanwhile, the Sultan, who is in charge of the smugglers, tries to escape from her husband.
- DirectorMustafa AltioklarStarsYasemin AlkayaLevent CanZühtü Erkan
- DirectorYesim UstaogluStarsDerya AlaboraAytaç ArmanMustafa ArslanPolice Kemal, who is nearing retirement, faces a suicide case. Was the incident a murder or a suicide?
- DirectorÜmit ElçiStarsMünir AkçaMustafa Suphi BaltaciSaime Bekbay
- DirectorSeyhan DerinStarsIlknur BahadirSevgi Özdamar
- DirectorKadir SözenStarsRahim CakmakLevent ElmasVolkan PinardagTomix, Tam-Tam and Mützen-Jacky are children of the street earning their living with music. They travel from one town to the other with their instruments to perform in the streets and in restaurants. Making music is the only thing they have ever learned. They are led by old Mahmud, an alcoholic. He is the one who concludes the business and takes in the money.
- DirectorHandan IpekçiStarsYasemin AlkayaMehmet AtakFüsun DemirelThe story of children from different backgrounds whose parents were arrested during the September 12 period.
- DirectorKutlug AtamanStarsGönen AykaçMetin UygunDaniel ChaceRichie Hunter is an American who lives in Istanbul. He meets a stranger, Haldun, who gives him a note with directions. These lead him to visit an aristocrat called Lamia living in a small palace on the Bosphorus and Richie finds himself caught up in the intrigues of Lamia's household.
- DirectorSinan ÇetinStarsMehmet Ali ErbilNatalie HerouxIzzet GünayA television news anchorman, ?smet Berkan goes on a journey with his wife. Along the journey, out of the blue they start fighting. When he confesses that he cheated on her, she gets mad. Enraged, Leyla gets out of the car, enters a gas station and takes off with a man in a red sports car.
- DirectorSerap BerrekkarasuWomen from Turkey and Mecklenburg are working together side-by-side at a fish-processing factory in Lübeck. As they work, they share stories about their lives, including their sorrows, griefs, hopes, and dreams, while expressing their longing for home and feelings of being lost in a foreign place.
- DirectorYavuz TurgulStarsSener SenUgur YücelSermin HürmeriçIngenuous countryman Ali Nazik moves to Istanbul, expecting help to become a famous singer, he finds Muhsin Kanadikirik, a fading music producer.
- DirectorMustafa AltioklarStarsEge AydanOkan BayülgenBeatriz RicoThe story takes us back to the 17th century Istanbul, and the powerful times of the Ottoman Empire under the rule of Sultan Murad IV. Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi, Logari Celebi, Bekri Mustafa and Evliya Celebi are four good friends who do research to enable human beings to fly.
- DirectorNesli ÇölgeçenStarsÖzcan ÖzgürNazan AyasBaykal KentThe story of an ex-actor who has lost his reputation and is suffering from depression, and a bar girl he falls in love with.
- DirectorMohsen MakhmalbafStarsShiva GeredAbdurrahman PalayMenderes SamancilarPart one: A brown-haired man finds out that his wife cheats on him with a blonde-haired man. He kills his rival and is condemned to the capital punishment. Gazale takes her own life. Part two: Same story. Same denouement, the only variant being that it is the blond-haired man who is the husband and the brown-haired one who is the lover. Part three: The story starts over again and is the same until the two men come into conflict. But from then on it changes dramatically : the brown-haired man decides not to kill his rival. The latter marries Gazale and nobody dies.
- DirectorMustafa AltioklarStarsEge AydanOkan BayülgenBeatriz RicoThe story takes us back to the 17th century Istanbul, and the powerful times of the Ottoman Empire under the rule of Sultan Murad IV. Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi, Logari Celebi, Bekri Mustafa and Evliya Celebi are four good friends who do research to enable human beings to fly.
- DirectorDervis ZaimStarsAhmet UgurluTuncel KurtizAysen AydemirMahsun is homeless and unemployed. He lives in Rumelihisari (one of the most picturesque and oldest quarters of Istanbul), and tries to stay alive with the help of local fishermen. Mahsun loves cars, he steals at nights and in the mornings he drives them back clean and well kept.
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsMehmet Emin ToprakHavva SaglamCihat BütünThe story of a family living in a small godforsaken town in Turkey seen through the eyes of children and dealing with the growing complexity when one becomes an adult.
- DirectorMuammer ÖzerStarsBülent KayabasFüsun DemirelHalil ErgünThe two friends Tuna and Fedai, who lead their lives with various mischief, decide to escape to Hollywood to fulfill their dreams.
- DirectorReis ÇelikStarsBerhan SimsekTarik TarcanSermin KaraaliThe struggle of Seydo, whom he was assigned to go with lieutenant Murat, in the tough geography of the Southeast Anatolia.
- DirectorGani MüjdeStarsMehmet Ali ErbilDemet SenerCem DavranThe story of Yetis Bey (Cem Davran) and his struggle with Byzantian Emperor (Illetyus) is presented in a humorous way.
- DirectorAtif YilmazStarsIlyas SalmanHümeyraMetin SerezliA construction worker named Mehmet Ali finds himself in a feud between two fraudulent media corporations as a commercials star. While the feud simmers, the sticks will turn to Mehmet Ali to defend his freehold.
- DirectorÖmer VargiStarsCem YilmazMazhar AlansonCeyda DüvenciWhen Altan swipes prescription drugs from his brother Nuri's pharmacy, they soon find themselves on a dangerous but funny road trip to get rid of the stuff and escape the mafiosi Altan tried to double-cross. Along the way, the brother who are compete opposites finally bond.
- DirectorAtif YilmazStarsTarik AkanZara YilmazKutay ÖzcanMetin, a five-year-old boy, looks forward to his mother, who vanishes by singing songs with hope. Ayten, the mother of Metin, was arrested by the police with a pretext for a revolutionary case. The text is taken to her mother who is in prison because she is without a mother.
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsEmin CeylanMuzaffer ÖzdemirFatma CeylanMuzaffer goes to the house where his parents live for the movie he will shoot. He is thinking of starring his relatives in the movie he will shoot. But his father struggles with the forest administration for the oaks he grows. His mother, on the other hand, does not feel well because of the diseases brought by old age.
- DirectorSinan ÇetinStarsMetin AkpinarKemal SunalMeltem CumbulBased on a true story set in 1948, customs officer Mehdi is faced with the duty of formally setting up the border between Turkey and Syria, dividing his hometown. He is unaware of the pain that will eminently unfold, as families, languages, cultures and lovers are both ripped apart and clash head on in a village once united.
- DirectorZeki ÖktenStarsEsref KolçakZeki AlasyaMetin AkpinarIn a western island of Turkey four old timers help their friend to plan a voyage to his long lost love in Cuba.
- DirectorYesim UstaogluStarsNazmi KirikNewroz BazMizgin KapazanMehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from the village Tire, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. Due to a strange set of events, he is mistaken for a Kurd, imprisoned, and brutally beaten.
- DirectorBora TekayStarsSelim ErdoganElvin BesikciogluBülent KayabasThe duty of taking the tax return forms of the villagers to the big city is assigned to a naive young guy. The villagers trust him, and hand their tax return forms to him. Taking the forms along with the lunchbox full of beans his mother cooked for him, he's underway.
- DirectorReha ErdemStarsTaner BirselBennu YildirimlarZuhal GencerThe monotonous life of Selim,a shirt store owner changes when he finds a suitcase full of American dollars in a taxi.
- DirectorYilmaz ErdoganÖmer Faruk SorakStarsYilmaz ErdoganDemet AkbagAltan ErkekliLives of residents in a small, Anatolian village change when television is introduced to them.
- DirectorSemih KaplanogluStarsTolga ÇevikErol KeskinAnna BielskaAfter several years of numbly mourning his parents death, 26 year old Selim takes a chance on the US lottery for passports and wins. He decides to sell the family olive grove to raise enough money to live in Manhattan and to break all roots to Turkey, leaving his girlfriend behind.
- DirectorSerdar AkarStarsMüjde ArSavas DinçelRafet El RomanThirtysomething Suat still lives with his parents and works at his father's store when not practicing as goalie for the local football team, Esnaf Spor. The neighborhood's greatest wish is for Esnaf Spor to win the amateur league championship.