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- DirectorBurak CevikStarsZinnure TüreDila YumurtaciEsme MadraA reclusive woman in her thirties leads a life frozen in time in a cave-like room. She searches for her twin sister in unfrequented corners of the city.
- DirectorEmre ErdogduStarsHazar ErgüçlüOzan UygunHalil BabürMüzeyyen is a young woman who lives a drug-fuelled, chaotic life outside the norms of society. Her brother Ali interrupts his own successful, bourgeois life in Bolu, and goes to Antalya to meet with his recently- discovered sister.
- DirectorMustafa KaraStarsHaydar SismanNuray YesilarazHanife Kara"Cold of Kalandar" pictures within a unique pastoral atmosphere the realist, passionate and emotional story of Mehmet and his family living far from modern life, in a mountain village.
- DirectorReha ErdemStarsBerke KaraerEcem UzunMelisa AkmanAli and Zuhal take their first step into this big world committing a crime and it becomes impossible for them to live among people. A boy and a girl that were thrown out of the civilized world would live the entire human story from scratch.
- DirectorReha ErdemStarsBinnur KayaPhilip ArdittiDeniz HasgülerAn island is evacuated because of a possible earthquake, but some people don't comply this order and decide to stay the island.
- DirectorReha ErdemStarsYesim TozanGülsen TuncerNurinisa YildirimA young girl with a vivid imagination exasperates her grandparents when she begins communicating with the ghost of her mother.
- DirectorReha ErdemStarsTurgay AydinArzu BazmanEsra Bezen BilginIn an apartment building where neighbors, friends, and family are living in close quarters, three male protagonists encounter three phases of manhood in Turkish society. Directors Reha Erdem's light touch and slyly amusing style do not miss the opportunity to illuminate some serious points in a strictly patriarchal society.
- DirectorÜmit KörekenStarsSelim KayaEray KilicarslanKatya Shenkova12-year-old Ali lives an austere life in the Anatolian countryside. He's saving up his hard-earned money for his big dream: a brand-new, blue bicycle. When Elif, the girl he is secretly in love with, becomes the victim of a great injustice at school, Ali takes up the passionate fight for democracy and against a system stuck in its ways.
- DirectorMu TuncStarsBurak DenizBüsra DeveliEris AkmanA young punk rocker in Istanbul tracks down a cruise ticket to California on the night of his birthday gig. Based on the director's personal family story. Film sets during the 90's unrest Turkey.
- DirectorTarik AktasStarsSerkan AydinBaris BilgiÖmer BoraStep by step, Hay goes down an inevitable and spiritual path where he confronts the relationship between human and nature, the unity of matter and the living.
- DirectorEmre YeksanStarsKutay SandikçiEray CezayirliogluImren SengelVeysel's wild solitary life in the woods is disrupted when the land he inhabits is sold to investors. One day, his younger brother Hasan comes from the city to convince him to leave. As the imminent threat of the eviction rapidly grows, the belated confrontation of the two brothers leads to the discovery of a magical home: A hidden universe in the heart of the forest.
- DirectorGozde KuralStarsÖykü KarayelBeran SoysalErkan AkbulutAzra, Emir, Ahmet are three siblings who were born and raised in Istanbul, their family originally from Afghanistan. After their mother's death, Azra who regrets about her weakness of family bounds, doesn't hesitate about making her mother's last wish come true and she decides to take a dangerous journey to bury her mother in Afghanistan.
- DirectorAli AydinStarsErcan KesalMuhammet UzunerTansu BiçerBasri, a widower little out of retirement, walks every day along the railroad tracks to check the status. Aside from his work, his only thought is to have news of his son, who's been missing for many years, after he was arrested during student demonstrations in Istanbul.
- DirectorDervis ZaimStarsHazar ErgüçlüOsman AlkasPopi AvraamShadows and Faces tells the story of a young girl who is separated from his shadow puppetry performer father during the ethnic conflict between Cypriot Greeks and Cypriot Turks in 1963.
- DirectorDervis ZaimStarsSerhat TutumluerMelisa SözenMesut AkustaEflatun is a master miniature artist who's living in 17th century Istanbul. One day, he's taken to the vizier's mansion by force. There he learns that Danyal, one of the Ottoman princes who has ignited an insurrection, is arrested in a far off state and to be executed soon.
- DirectorGörkem YeltanStarsKaan ÇakirPinar TuncegilAlin YeltanTwo sisters, who lost their parents, have to stay temporarily with their uncle in Bodrum, upon their grandma's leaving. An intimacy develops between their uncle and the nanny, a pilates teacher hired to look after them during their stay. The kids want to live with them in Bodrum and are reluctant about moving to Canada.
- DirectorMehmet GüreliStarsCemil AgacikogluEmre AltugCem BazaTriangle with four corners.
- DirectorSelim GunesStarsCansu FirinciLila GürmenBugra Koctepe'The Disenchanted' is an emotional contemplation of love, remorse, friendship, moralities, and humanity. The elegy of solitude... A film based on the dilemma between losing one's heart and a genuine love...
- DirectorSalih Demir
- DirectorDilek ÇolakStarsEvren DuyalSermet YesilAytaç ÖztunaLeyla is an unhappy nurse being beaten by her husband. One day she meets Kerem who is a lively political prisoner on hunger strike. Leyla's vision of life would change with her new friend.
- DirectorSelman KiliçaslanStarsKemal UçarArif Erkin GüzelbeyogluNilay ErdönmezAli is an engineering student and he dreams to go abroad with Erasmus project, leaving behind the town that he lives in. At the same time he goes through a searching period that he tries to know himself, asking questions about life. His quiet life is stirred up upon his crash to Gülce who is singing in a folk music cafe.
- DirectorErkan TunçStarsIrem SakLevent ArasAhmet BacinogluThe boring lives of a small chicken farm's caretaker and his younger wife intersect with the seemingly fun lives of the new farmhand and his wife.
- DirectorFikret ReyhanStarsUmut AlagülAkan AtakanErsin BuyarIn a field surrounded and squeezed by increasing industrialization, an immigrant family, deep in financial debt, struggles to survive through traditional farming. Their son, Ibrahim, dreams of a different future for himself.
- DirectorAli Kemal ÇinarStarsSalih DemirTeymûr EvdikêIhsan SakarThe film is about a limited-superhero who wants to change the world with daily, weird and funny works.
- DirectorUfuk BayraktarStarsUfuk BayraktarPinar BoyerMehmet DereThe peaceful life of a mountain village family shatters when they find out the mother has tuberculosis. Considering this, the mother decides her husband should marry an infertile woman for her children's future, though she survives the disease, forcing herself to live with the other wife.