Films

Winner, Best Feature Film, Achievement in Cinematography, Young Cinema Award, 2016 A celebration of the irrepressibility of the human spirit in the face of hardship…

After suffering a breakdown, Emine’s husband, Ce- mal, travels to Romania in search of work. When he is detained there, Emine finds herself on her…

Winner, Jury Grand Prize, 2015 Istanbul is in the grip of political violence. The state uses new underground techniques in the hunt for terrorists in shantytowns.…

Winner, Best Screenplay, 2015 Nesrin is a young, urban middle class woman in modern day Istanbul who decides to abandon her city life to recover…

In a sunny Turkish village by the Black Sea, five spirited and adolescent sisters find themselves confronted with the restrictions of becoming a woman in…

Winner, Achievement in Directing, 2014 Set in remote Cappadocia, Central Anatolia, Winter Sleep focuses on a half-empty small village in the wintry off-season. The film…

Winner, Best Youth Feature Film, 2014 Set in a bleak village in rural eastern Anatolia, Sivas tells the story of Aslan, an eleven-year-old boy, and…

A barber in the small town of Yozgat in the middle of Anatolia has an emotional breakdown over singers who come to town to perform.

Winner, Best Feature Film, 2012 It’s a summer’s day and retired forester Faik is receiving visitors at the family’s rural property in Anatolia. Faik’s son…

Winner, Achievement in Cinematography, 2012

Winner, Best Screenplay, 2012 In a remote Turkish village, an ancient blood feud between two families has finally been put to rest, and a marriage…

Winner, Achievement in Cinematography, Achievement in Directing, Jury Grand Prize, 2011 Life in a small town is akin to journeying in the middle of the steppes:…

Winner, Cultural Diversity Award under the patronage of UNESCO, 2010 Yusuf is an only child who lives with his parents in an isolated mountain area.…

The Bogeyman is the story of two siblings, Ayse and Ahmet, who live in a village near the central Anatolian city of Konya. After their…

Winner, Achievement in Directing, 2008 A family dislocated when small failings blow up into extravagant lies, battles against the odds to stay together by covering…

The film Dot shows a man who is being hunted by a crime from the past and who tries to redeem himself for his fault.

Winner, Best Performance by an Actor, 2007 Humble introvert, Muharrem lives a solitary and meager existence of prayer and sexual abstinence, adhering strictly to the most…

Teenagers Ali and Zuhal grew up together in an orphanage with a bond as strong as siblings. When Ali moves out on account of his…

Chehnaz, an attractive woman, working as a psychiatrist, and her handsome husband, Cem live in a hip neighbourhood in Istanbul when Chehnaz has been assigned…

Told through the director’s alter ego, Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman (ES) escapes from Palestine seeking an alternative homeland. On his travels, however, he finds parallels…

25-year-old Sibel lives with her father and sister in a secluded village in the mountains of Turkey’s Black Sea region. Sibel is a mute, but…

Winner – Best Youth Feature Film, 2018 Yusuf is quiet and reserved, keeping to himself and preferring to be left alone with his pet pigeons…

Young Memo is a boarder at a secluded and repressive boys’ school in the Turkish mountains who falls mysteriously ill. Yusuf, his twelve-year-old classmate, tackles…

In a Himalayan polyandrous village, pregnant Pema faces scrutiny when her husband vanishes. With her monk brother-in-law, her de facto spouse, she seeks the husband…

In Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) in 1978, three French journalists are invited by the Khmer Rouge to conduct an exclusive interview of the regime’s leader, Pol…