TUFAN TASTAN | TURKEY | 2017

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"They flourished from books..." 

CANBERT YERGUZ | TURKEY | 2017

Besim, who set out on a long interprovincial journey with the truck escrowed  to him, is stuck in the middle of a deserted road in the heart of Anatolia because of an engine breakdown. His efforts to find a mechanic for the truck, fearing that it will catch on fire, becomes more and more complicated with the arrival of kids, a flock of stray sheep, a peasant with a scooter, other peasants with cars, and even more peasants with a tractor, women and the gendarme one after the other.  The quarrel between the two enemy villages inflames because of the missing shepherd of the rambling flock; they scuffle and accuse each other of murdering the shepherd. Stuck with a truck which is about to start burning down, Besim is now struggling to stay out of the fight that pulls him in insistently, where no one listens to one another, and also to find someone with a  good sense who will help him with his problem. 

FERHAT OZMEN | TURKEY | 2017

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Serhat and Yunus are street children who are collecting and selling the empty beer bottles. One day, they see a poster of a movie named Ice Age while passing by Beyoğlu Sineması (The Cinema of Beyoğlu). Serhat admires the movie poster. He thinks about movie that night so he cannot sleep. The next day, he goes to see the movie poster again. He starts to find a way to see the movie...

TUNAHAN KURT | TURKEY | 2017

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Solmaz is a 15 years old girl who lives in a village out of the way in Kars with her family. She is mentally retarded. She lives with innocent smile on her face and she imitates what happens around her without query. Her only friend is her father’s horse, Fırat. Solmaz’s father Ali is a bulky, superstitious man who wants a male child passionately. For his male child passion he made his second marriage and he lives with his two wives. In tough winter conditions the family’s only transportation vehicle is a horse and a sled. One of the tough winter day, Ali’s second wife Emine who is seven months pregnant gets labor suddenly. Ali prepares the horse and sled quickly for go to city hospital in time. Ali’s first wife gets in a paddy and she doesn’t take Solmaz in the house. Ali is constrained includes Solmaz to the journey. Ali tries to go on short-cut. But snow is too rigid and weather is too cold. That’s why the horse’s leg has broken. Because of the tradition Ali shots the horse because of it’s broken leg. Solmaz innocent smile disappears because of her best friend Fırat is shot and killed by her father. The other tradition is pregnant woman gives birth to a male child who eats snow cherry before the birth. Ali sees a snow cherry tree when he tries to pull the sledge. He leaves the sledge and go to snow cherry tree. At the exact moment he takes a snow cherry on the tree his foot get caught in a pig trap. Solmaz imitates what she saw while Ali groan with pain.

YAVUZ PULLUKCU | TURKEY | 2014

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Central Marshes were a large complex of wetlands in Iraq that were part of the Tigris. The Ilısu Dam is a project of Turkey. But when it was finished it will destroy the marshes. Film is about how their lives and culture would change when it would finished. This situation violates human rights. The film tells the current water-related issues of the water Bedouins, who live in the swamp area at the point where the rivers Tigres and Euphrates flow into the sea, in the Persian Gulf, Iraq, and the dangers that one of the ancient settlements in Anatolia, Hasankeyf, is facing.

CENK KOKSAL/OZGUL GURBUZ | 2017

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A little girl is playing house by herself. She makes food out of toys and sets the table. Then a little boy comes in, and she greets him with joy. But things are getting darker while they pretending...

MEHMET MICIK | TURKEY | 2017

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An old man enters a supermarket and start looking for a special biscuit for his son.

VURAL UZUNDAG | TURKEY | 2017

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A family with three kids, in Istanbul, living in the opposite shore of modern city life. Though, their daily routines have similarities with the ones of city dwellers, the values they question and the consequences they undergo are the same. The lies that we tell ourselves to exist, conscience, the pain of coexistence, obligations developing out of habits, regret and the mutual destiny of humanity; bereavement!

AYRIS ALPTEKIN | TURKEY | 2017

Is it beyond ethical boundaries or a legitimate right to demand one's wage during a funeral?  The old lady that Sevim nursed is dead. She has to demand her wage which is already belated for a few days. This wage issue that Sevim tried to figure out without overstating during all day becomes a huge incident for this upper middle class family due to the uncertainty of the payer of this month among the family members.

DENIZ OZDEN | TURKEY | 2017

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Cemile (59) who lives in a flat with her husband, cooks a full plate of dolma - a Turkish traditional food- for their new neighboors as part of a Turkish tradition. The unfamiliar names of the young new neighboors, Ari and Lorin, and the uncertain meatballs they bring to thank back Cemile for her kindness, make her start investigate about them.

MELISA UNERI | TURKEY | 2016

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“No Fries, Please” is a black comedy following a man’s futile attempts of trying to control his life in an urban society.  The film is a tragicomic story about modern-day social phobia, loneliness and revenge.