Nefes Polat

Movies

Game, Interrupted
Producer
In winter 1979, during their semester break in Ankara, Turkey, two siblings aged 7 and 8 find their way out of boredom by playing games in their apartment. However, something goes wrong that day. Their grandmother falls over the tent that they were playing in and interrupts their game. While trying to figure out what happened, they notice a strange intruder waiting at their door. They have to find a solution before their mother returns from work.
Not Today
Producer
Handling two homes, three kids and her mother with Alzheimer's; Meryem, a single mother nanny, gets hooked on middle class' discourse of self-help. Going over her priorities, she decides to step up for herself on the worst day possible.
Snow and the Bear
Producer
A young nurse starts a new assignment in a small isolated village in the farthest reaches of Turkey, a place that seems asleep in an endless winter. A thick layer of snow covers the souls as well as the lands. But under the snow, unspeakable secrets hibernate.
Penny Bank
Producer
Orhan is a quiet family man. On the one hand, he takes care of her mother, who is in a coma due to a house accident, and on the other hand, he deals with the debt he has left because his friend disappears. In this process, he gets out of tune with his family and gradually loses his father's role. Orhan, who goes into additional job trials such as interviewer and taxi driver to cover the debt, increasingly becomes another man.
The Adventures of Sukran the Lame
Associate Producer
A none dialogue film about a young woman called Sukran, who has an accident when she is 10 years old and stays crippled for the rest of her life. Throughout the film, she seeks to create a common ground with other people. Despite her hunger to do so, she fails with people of the opposite sex, and so turns to her own gender. Again, she meets with failure; and again, she is knocked sideways. Just like all of us, Şükran keeps looking helplessly for ways to communicate with other people until the bitter end. Her helplessness may not be the exact same to our own helplessness as spectators, but they are indeed in very close proximity.
Sibel
Producer
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 she communicates by using the ancestral whistled language of the area.
As Life Goes On
Producer
How does it feel when we realize we have no more in common with the people who made us who we are? Önder goes to visit Mehmet, the cousin he has always looked up to and loved like a brother, but not seen for some time. Although the evening begins brightly, Önder realizes by the end that the brother-like bond between them is a thing of the past.