Winter Sleep

Winter Sleep 2014

7.57

Aydın is a hotel owner and a retired actor in rural Turkey. As winter emerges he begins navigating the conflicts within the relationships with his wife, sister and existence.

2014

10 to 11

10 to 11 2009

6.84

Mithat passionately collects newspapers in his Istanbul flat. The other tenants ridicule him and he lives a lonely life. As the building is to be renovated, Mithat develops a friendship with concierge Ali, another loner, who helps him save his collection. They involuntarily change each other’s fate.

2009

Watchtower

Watchtower 2012

7.40

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.

2012

Singing Women

Singing Women 2013

5.10

An island off the coast of Turkey is about to be evacuated due to a possible earthquake but its inhabitants have been stricken with a mysterious illness, consigning them to an uncertain fate.

2013

Germany Songs - Almanya Türküleri

Germany Songs - Almanya Türküleri 2023

1

The 60-year story of Turks and Kurds in Germany through their songs, performed together between 2021 and 2022 on renowned stages in Germany and in Istanbul, by an 85-year-old folk singer to a young feminist rapper.

2023

Yearning

Yearning 2015

7.30

A European director is commissioned to make a documentary about Istanbul. He starts to film its everyday life - but soon becomes drawn to the darker, more mysterious side of the city - its past, its secrets, its ghosts. Gradually he succumbs to obsession.

2015

The Flying Meatball Maker

The Flying Meatball Maker 1970

1

Meatball-maker Kadir dreams of taking flight but his in-laws vehemently disapprove. However, with a little help he may actually make good on this obsession, but as the old saying goes – best not fly too close to the sun.

1970