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The night long journey of the 4 soldiers discharged from the army.

In a Turkish village, three siblings who neither know each other nor anything about their late father, wait to bury his body. As they start to find out more about their father and each other, they also start to learn more about themselves.

Ilyas Bazna works as a butler in the British Embassy in Turkey during World War II. After Bazna starts working as a German spy he experiences a series of unexpected events.

Gaza is a 14-year-old boy who lives on the Aegean coast of Turkey. Together with his domineering father, he helps smuggle refugees from war-torn countries to Europe, giving them temporary lodgings and scant food until they attempt the crossing.

Salim, a homicide detective, is a 30-year-old man in the world of his own. Salim, divorced and with a 3-year-old daughter, finds out that his ongoing eye treatment is not successful, and he will eventually become completely blind.

Post-apocalyptic world divided between city remnants and agricultural zones, both ruled by corporations and elites. Survivors navigate stratified society after an unspecified cataclysmic event, inspired by a chapter from the Noble Quran.

Three young girls are sent back to their father in a poor village in central Anatolia, one after another, after failing in more affluent foster families.

The tragic story of three farm worker who migrates from their village to the cotton land Çukurova.

Sabure and Murtaza live in a village up in the mountains of Malatya. Sabure lost her sight years ago, and Murtaza takes care of her. Their children live in Istanbul. One day, Murtaza calls Istanbul from the grocer in a nearby town and hears that their daughter is ill. He returns to the village, but doesn't tell Sabure about their daughter.

Feramus, member of a philosophy faculty in a university, returns to hometown for his father's funeral. There, he and two other locals whom he interacts face dramatic changes in their lives.

Newly divorced Nilgün is assigned to a small town. One day, she meets her long-lost childhood friend Havva while examining sex workers in a brothel. Two women get closer, but their relationship is tested by social and cultural conflicts.

Nesrin and Hatun are two Kurdish cleaning women living in Istanbul. While Nesrin tries to survive with her little daughter, trying to understand why her husband left her, Hatun dreams of buying a house in the district where they clean.

Mustafa is a hard-working and ambitious agricultural merchant who is cold and austere towards his family. One day he has a brain hemorrhage on a business trip and goes into a coma after the operation. Guler is suspicious of her husband having an affair. Veysel, their teenage son, wants to leave the military academy and study business administration.

In an apartment building where neighbors, friends, and family are living in close quarters, three male protagonists encounter three phases of manhood in Turkish society. Directors Reha Erdem's light touch and slyly amusing style do not miss the opportunity to illuminate some serious points in a strictly patriarchal society.

Only on the roof of his parents' house, above the alleys of a slum in Adana, with his beloved pigeons, can Yusuf find peace, and himself. Finding a foothold in the dystopian world outside is more difficult.

A serial killer keeps creating crime scenes that are ridiculously decorated with paints, markings and poems everywhere. The team begin solving the most mysterious murder case of the country, using the most wrong methods.

Eight-year old girl Lena who has lost her family members in a war wends her way with her little sister and their neighbor Meryem and other immigrants.

Upon losing his wife and son, Ahmet has to struggle with the feeling of loneliness.

Why would someone like Leyla go to a high school reunion dinner? And take an overnight train to get there. After all, she hasn't been to a single one for the last 25 years - What is Canan, a student nurse, doing on the train? Reluctantly going to an interview for a nursing job when she would like to be an actress instead.

Mithat is a retired civil servant. Ali is doorman of his apartment. The two men belong to different worlds, unless they live in same apartment.

A female architect who wants to preserve her utopias realizes the only probable way to experience this in today's Istanbul is through dreams and parallel lives. Indeed, her dreams help her to continue, build new hopes and lives.

A print shop worker, Tufan, takes in a neighbor with emphysema and helps his daughter take care of a wounded bird, but tensions develop at his economically struggling business and strains develop because of his house guest with his marriage.

The musician Mahir Bey has a relationship with his daughter's friend, Duru. Ali Bey goes into a disarray mode when finds out what her friend and father have done behind her back.

Metin Arici who has been working as a staff for a ferry in Istanbul for a long time, also has been living in the same vehicle for 6 years. An interviewer visits them one day to evaluate how the staff in the ferry works. Ayzek, as Metin's friends call him, finds himself in a complicated situation in the fear of something he has never thought of.

"Cold of Kalandar" pictures within a unique pastoral atmosphere the realist, passionate and emotional story of Mehmet and his family living far from modern life, in a mountain village.