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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.

It is 1416, 13 years after Timur's victory over the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Ankara. Çelebi Mehmed emerged victorious from the struggle for the Ottoman throne. Although the dispute for the throne is now over, the rural population is overwhelmed by a high tax burden, making them increasingly poor.

One day waves bring a wooden statue of Lenin to a small town by the Black Sea. The statue is erected in the town square by the Municipality with the hope that it would attract tourists to the town. As an official opening ceremony is planned with the participation of the Prime Minister and a Russian delegation, the statue gets stolen. Two police investigators from Ankara are assigned to find Lenin in twelve hours. Townspeople give an unexpected answer to the question «Where is Lenin?».

Tas (Rock) is a film that presents a cross-section of the life of a family living a hard life in the countryside. It is a touch of sadness in the life of people living in nature- even as a part of it. And that life is nothing more than the waiting of a woman and man who lost their son. After waiting for many years, the family tries to get rid of the uncertainty by believing that the wounded man they found at the door is Selim (Ahmet Varli), their son.

Hasret has been seeing the same nightmare for some time, but she keeps living unaware that what she sees is actually remembering. A 30-year-old woman who works in a News Channel, living alone in the flat left by her musician parents who died in a car crash twenty years ago. Is it? The question creeps into her mind, and then (or maybe even before) her life through recurring nightmares: Is it possible that her parents did not die in a car crash?

Ali e Zuhal tomam o primeiro passo para sair do orfanato para este grande mundo ao cometer um crime. Torna-se impossível para eles agora viver entre as pessoas, e a floresta que os abriga torna-se uma ilha deserta para os dois. Um menino e uma menina que foram expulsos do mundo civilizado, eles se vêem de volta ao longo de toda a história do homem, começando do zero.

Um amargo conflito se desencadeou entre os guerrilheiros eo Exército em regiões curdas da Turquia há mais de 30 anos. Grandes extensões já se tornaram zonas de guerra. Inúmeros jovens perderam suas vidas no conflito. Este país montanhoso perigoso, mas incrivelmente bela é a casa de 17 anos de idade, Jin. Mas ela não é mais seguro desde que ela secretamente roubou longe de um grupo de rebeldes com quem ela estava lutando. Agora ela vagueia a paisagem pitoresca sozinho, preso entre duas frentes. De repente, o som de tiros e explosões rasgar o ar acima da paisagem natural intocada. Desesperada por encontrar a paz, Jin decide fugir para outra parte do país - um plano impossível, uma vez que os militares são omnipresentes e há bloqueios de estradas em toda parte. Sendo curda, sem documentos de identidade, ela corre o risco de detenção em cada turno. Além disso, como uma mulher sem família para protegê-la, muitos homens irão vê-la como uma presa fácil. Mas a coragem dela é inquebrável.

This is the directorial debut of Muzaffer Ozdemir, Palme d'Or awarded actor of Uzak / Distant (2002) by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, and also an actor in the Ceylan films Kasaba / The Small Town (1997) and Clouds of May (1999). Dogan, a pessimistic and neurotic architect, falls ill while camping with his friends nearby Istanbul. His doctor advises traveling. Longing for his homeland, Dogan sets off on a short break to the town of his childhood, whence he did not have the opportunity to visit since years. But not even the countryside has escaped the homogenizing concrete web cast by the modern technological age and liberal mentality inimical to the Earth.

Kosmos is a thief and a miracle-worker. He appears one morning in a tiny, snowbound border village where he is welcomed with open arms – on account of arriving just in time to resuscitate a small boy who would otherwise have drowned.