Menderes Samancılar

A star-crossed romance seals the fate of two families when a woman trying to save her family restaurant falls for the surly heir of a debt collector.

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While working as a hairdresser in an Istanbul suburb, Aydan finds herself the owner of a luxury beauty salon. Her shadowy new boss is Emir, a mysterious businessman about whom no one knows anything. As Aydan struggles to adapt to Emir's world, she's also forced to contend with the troubles caused by her reluctant partner, Çiğdem, a vagrant who grew up in an orphanage. Efe, the reckless police officer who follows Emir, inevitably crosses paths with Çiğdem and the hairdresser. Amidst all this chaos, Aydan seeks solace in her dear friend, manicurist Fiko, while her ex-husband, talented hairdresser Tarık, who can't stomach Aydan's new world of luxury, finds himself facing a new problem every day.

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Songül is about to finish her shift at the hospital where she works as a nurse. Upon learning that her husband Hakkı, whom she is about to leave, is coming home to collect his belongings, she decides to go home later to avoid seeing him.

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Tuncel Kurtiz is an international actor who has worked in various countries such as Turkey, Germany, and Sweden throughout his fifty-year career. He has starred in countless works in cinema, stage and television and has received many awards, including the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. He has directed two documentaries and a feature-length fiction film. Kurtiz's acting performance ranges from popular melodramas to major plays such as Mahabharata (Peter Brook), encompassing many different genres and styles. As an actor, Kurtiz believes in the creative power of chaos: 'Chaos is the most difficult to create / Not a false chaos / Many things come out of chaos'. Through testimonies, film excerpts, and archive footage, this documentary reflects Tuncel Kurtiz's diverse body of artistic work in all its dimensions for the first time. In the background of this detailed portrait are Turkey's turbulent years and the reality of exile.

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Ayşe (47) lives with her brother Rıdvan (38), who has down syndrome, on the outer edge of the ever-growing Istanbul, where the face has begun to change. Their father has been waiting for death in a hospital for a long time. When Ayşe receives a marriage proposal from an international truck driver who stops by the gas station where she works, she makes a choice between her destiny and her dreams.

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Struggling with existential angst and longing for his past life in an orange, a man navigates his quirky family in this decades-spanning drama.

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The brutal murder of Hamdi Atilbay in the forest crosses the paths of young prosecutor Leyla, who wants to leave her messy past behind and now establish her new order, and Kenan, an ambitious journalist who has a regular and famous life. However, this murder heralds the destruction of not only their love, but also the truth they know about their lives.

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Follow the struggle of the Kurak family, who traded in citrus fruits in Sarıbahçe, both with each other and with foreign powers who want to dominate the region.

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When Istanbul playboy Ferit Korhan's exasperated grandfather arranges his marriage to a girl from Gaziantep, fate intervenes — Ferit falls for Seyran, the younger sister of his intended bride, upending both families.

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Esma is a beautiful, ambitious and strong woman who is the second boss of her father's law firm. Filiz is a stubborn but fragile lawyer candidate. One murder will cross the paths of these two different women. But how?

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During his military service in 1990's Southeast Turkey, Ahmet experiences something that will haunt him for the rest of his life. In 2013, when the chaotic days of Gezi Park protests in Istanbul start, Ahmet learns he has a brain tumor. Just as the lines between truth and fiction, the dream and the reality start to get blurred for him, he meets Serap; the love of his life. But time is ticking and his painful past weighs down on him every day, suffocating him with the same question: Who is the child that plays hide and seek with him?

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The series tells the story of Zulf, who was thrown into a well in a deserted place where there are not even birds flying .. While she was waiting for her death, she was rescued by a young man named Kinan who appeared in front of her as a miracle, but when she discovers who Kanan is, she will be shocked by the shock of her life .. Kinan who saw Zalf The one who talks about her beauty being thrown into the well will turn his world ... The crime that was committed fifteen years ago will return, and the blood that was shed with her will affect the two families until love comes and all that is erased ..

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Ismet is a Turkish soldier, who was on duty at the border as a Commander of the Coast Guard and recently got retired. Now as a civilian, he struggles to communicate with his family and people surrounding him. His only son abandoned him and left to the U.S.

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Yakup and Şemsa are Assyrians living in Berlin with their three children and grandchildren. Twenty-five years ago they migrated from Mardin to Berlin. One day they receive a phone call from Mardin. This unexpected call deals with their son Mikhael, whom they lost twenty-five years ago. All the suffering of the family is refreshed. Yakup and Şemsa go to Mardin with their grandchildren, Nardin, who do not want to leave them alone. This trip will be the beginning of all their personal journeys. When the craftsman Yakup, who had not come for years, abandoned his village and saw his house looted; He will go after his house door. On his journey of finding the door, he will be accompanied by her granddaughter Nardin and the smuggler Remzi.

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A special team of four is established by the Istanbul Police Department. The team has all kinds of different talents. These four people, who have experienced many things in their past, start working together to solve grisly murders.

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Fikret Karakaya is a very powerful and feared man, coming from very wealthy family. Being and old man, he has a serious desire to marry young beautiful girl named Zühre. Zuhrs father unfortunately sells her to Fikret and she is forced to marry him. Zuhre has no support from her family or anyone else until she bumps into a young man Seyit. Seyit comes from honorable and respected family. He witnesses the struggle and torture Zuhre is going through and is helpless not to be able to help her properly...

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Lisa is a young designer from Paris. She is starting to work as an independent designer and she wants to make a fashion show. A friend of her, a girl named Hêlin persuades Lisa to make the show in Diyarbakir, telling her that in there you can find the most beautiful girls to parade as models.

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Set against the backdrop of construction activity promising to fill in the empty spaces of the urban landscape with entirely new neighborhoods, a story unfolds of an aging construction worker who, unlike his peers, has to drop all plans for the future after being diagnosed with a malignant tumor. This self-assured debut contemplates the dignity of the individual within the context of modern Turkish society.

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When Nejdet learns that the other mafia bosses he works with are plotting behind his back, he decides to teach them a lesson. The biggest surprise he has in store is his son, whom he has kept hidden from everyone for many years. However, Berk, a conservatory graduate, is a ballet dancer. The young man, who knows nothing about any of this, dreams of becoming a principal ballet dancer. Berk, who lives a modest life with his ballerina girlfriend, suddenly finds himself caught up in a showdown between the mafia bosses. Moreover, the most powerful and feared among them is his own father.

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At the times of World War II, accomplished painter and translator Aram flees Istanbul due to political offenses. When he is trapped at the USSR-Georgia borders, his flight turns into a remembrance of things past...

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Nuri, whose sole aim is to return to Istanbul by selling a garden left to him by his father, has an interesting encounter with his old friend Sabri in the city. Sabri, however, has just smashed his boss's head in due to sudden psychological trauma he suffered at the government office where he works, and things start to get even more complicated. As Nuri prepares to return to Istanbul, he receives news that his friend Sabri has committed suicide in prison. Now Nuri has a purpose. He decides to uncover the reasons behind his old friend Sabri's mysterious murder and suicide.

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Bahadır, an aspiring 35-year-old director, spends his life making cheap television films inspired by the stories of folk songs. On the other hand, he has a great ambition to make films like his idol, Tarkovsky. He stands between his dreams and the real, tragicomic conditions.

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Laborers of the film industry have decided to march against the new censorship act in 1977. 60 years of silence in cinema was going to be interrupted for good. From actor/actresses to set workers, 400 women and men have started a 5-day-long walk to Ankara. A walk that was conceived with supportive but surprised looks of the public. The documentary tries to picture this forgotten but historical event in the light of the 100th year of cinema.

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A young boy Karim suddenly gets kidnapped by falko his dad's unknown enemy in order to get even with his dad for snatching his girlfriend away from him.

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Haunted by his dark past, a man takes a job as a fire warden in a remote tower in the wilderness, and is inexorably drawn towards a young woman with a terrible secret of her own.

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In Paris' cosmopolitan and colorful 10th arrondissement, Philippe, who's fresh out of prison, crosses paths with Avdal, a Kurd who is trying to track down an Iraqi war criminal. Avdal, who dreams of staying in France, plans to bring his fiancee Siba to Paris. She's due to arrive in the next few days. The two men strike up a friendship and when Avdal dies suddenly and unexpectedly, Philippe finds himself left to organize the funeral arrangements. What should he do with the body? Siba arrives in Paris, and soon learns that Avdal has died. She is taken in by a group of Kurdish men and before long she also meets Philippe - all of whom are quite smitten by her beauty. Meanwhile, Avdal's father Cheto, a devout Muslim, comes to Paris to grieve for his son. He intends to force Siba to return to her homeland, but the young woman has now had a taste of freedom.

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In the southeast region of Turkey, the Kurdish family of Altun lives in a small mountainside village plagued by a 25-year war that makes their daily lives a hellish struggle. As the war intensifies, the family is forced to migrate west to the city of Istanbul.

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Riza is a truck driver. When his truck breaks down, Riza can’t work and his livelihood is threatened. Using every possible means, he desparately tries to drum up the money for the repairs. And this includes being prepared to commit a brutal crime.

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A young woman's forced marriage to the agha of a tribe in Southeastern Turkey leads to tragedy and social change.

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