Samim Meriç

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A triptych of literary adaptations explores past, present and future in rural Turkey. “Düne Özlem” (from Hulki Aktunç’s Bir Yergöstericinin Hayatı): A once-famed traveling critic returns after years to the cinema that launched his career—and finds it unrecognizably transformed. “Bugüne Özlem” (from Kemal Tahir’s Arabacı): A horse-drawn cart driver picks up two stranger women en route to a village—unaware they intend to marry him off to their spinster relative. “Yarına Özlem” (from Zeyyat Selimoğlu’s Bıldırcınlar): An old captain haunted by a fatal shipwreck readies quail-hunting with his grandson, even as his daughter-in-law waits in vain for her migrant husband to return from Germany. Each segment poignantly probes longing— for what was, what is, and what might yet come.

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A dwarf and a transvestite, both are excluded from the society and doomed to exist at night. Their lives overlap in a strange encounter and this becomes the start of their friendship.

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The story of two female theater actors, Deniz and İpek. The events that take place during the rehearsals and staging of Jean Genet's play "The Balcony" are intertwined with love, indifference, passion, sexuality, and the lust for power, just like in the play itself.

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In 1942 during the time of war, Tatar Ramazan goes to jail because murder after argument on lands. When he gets out, he finds out that the life outside is much harder.

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While he was just an ordinary imam, his sister was raped and murdered by bullies. Everything was destroyed, but later he became a skilled swordsman and made his enemies bleed.

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The film is about two gangsters facing each other. Yalçın is the most notorious gangster in the city. He plans to leave the city with Figen and give up gangsterism. Ali Duran, on the other hand, is a gangster whose reputation has spread throughout the country. As a result of his nine-year prison sentence, he has been exiled to the city for six months. Rumors that spread upon the news of Ali Duran's arrival provoke Yalçın against him. Ali Duran is waiting for the day he will reunite with his mother, whom he has longed for over the years, and remains silent about the actions taken against him. However, someone is doing everything in their power to pit the two gangsters against each other.

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