Erol Afşin

Turkish director Ali Vatansever weighs the human cost of politically motivated urban renewal in his achingly resonant second feature, about a young couple forced to compromise their ideals and work for the very industry encroaching on their Istanbul neighbourhood, in order to keep up with the rent.

Murat, Juri and Cornelia are among the so-called “working poor” – as click workers, in a cardboard factory and as freelance parcel deliverers, they are only linked by their low wages. Each one fights on his or her own.

Lena is in love with her brother Noah. In the desperate attempt to conquer her feelings, she retreats into a world of her own.

Green, an undocumented Turkish pedicab driver, unwittingly draws police attention, endangering his brother, his community, and himself.

Bahar é a comandante das Filhas do Sol, um batalhão composto apenas por mulheres curdas que atua ofensivamente na guerra do país. Ela e as suas soldadas estão prestes a entrar na cidade de Gordyene, local onde Bahar foi capturada uma vez no passado. Mathilde é uma jornalista francesa que está acompanhando o batalhão durante o ataque. O encontro entre as duas mulheres, dentro do cenário caótico que as cercam, irá mudar a vida de ambas permanentemente.

A young man is searching for his place in the world. He finds his way, religion and his "brothers" in the radical Islam. What begins with the wish of helping people in Syria leads Jan through religious murder as an ISIS-soldier and back to his home county Germany.

Day in, day out, Niklas ‘Nick’ Tschiller and his partner Yalcin Gümer investigate crimes that are happening in Hamburg. But at some point even the policeman needs a break to spend time with his daughter Lenny. Then it says: Tschiller a.D. - out of service - goodbye to Hamburg. However, simply relaxing is easier said than done, because crime never sleeps and a new, very personal case throws a spanner in the works for Nick's plans for a well-deserved break. Even on vacation, the criminal investigator is not sure about his job and so a wild journey soon takes him across Europe, including to Istanbul and Moscow.

No início do verão em um vilarejo turco, Lale e suas 4 irmãs brincam de forma debochada com os meninos, o que acarreta em um escândalo de consequências muito fortes: a casa delas se torna praticamente uma prisão, elas aprendem a limpar ao invés de ir para a escola e seus casamentos começam a ser arranjados. As cinco não deixam de desejar a liberdade, e tentam resistir aos limites que lhes são impostos.

Four Muslim friends meet in the forest to pray together and to talk in peace. The harmony gets broken by the coming out of Seydi and the circle gets in an endless spiral of contention; about Islam, sin and belief, forgiveness and punishment. Because Seydi wants the just punishment for his sin, so he is sinless before Allah.

Cyprus 1974. A Cypriot family flees advancing Turkish forces and takes refuge in an abandoned Ottoman-era palace. When a young Turkish Cypriot conscript comes face to face with the family in hiding, he is forced to confront the harsh reality of war and his role in it.