Zıkkımın Kökü (1993)

Nisantasi is a classy Istanbul residential district. Its inhabitants may be rich and beautiful but they are not necessarily happy. This is the case for 52-year-old architect Can and his wife Ela, an artist who is already past her creative prime. Their daughter Nil has left home to study in Ankara. Left to their own devices, the couple realise that their passion for each other is not what it once was. Nonetheless they both feel secure in the safe harbour of a marriage which places no demands for critical questions or complex explanations. One day, Ela happens to overhear her husband talking on the phone. (Berlinale.de)

The friendship of Gokhan and Omer is challenged when Omer falls in love with beautiful Yasemin. Gokhan frames his best friend Omer for a murder, subsequently Omer must leave the country.

Gülcan and her husband İbrahim dream of a happy future together in their village. However, they are subjected to the cruelty of the Agha, the local landowner who lords over the entire village. İbrahim is fed up and moves to Germany to find work. On the other hand, Gülcan has to deal with Agha's evils alone.

Having just entered puberty, bride (Dilan Aksüt) had been forced to marry with groom (Ilyas Salman) whom returned to his hometown after doing many years of jail time and more than fifty years older than her. At first she was afraid, she cries, even resists, having equipped with patchy and second hand sayings, she did not know what is going to happen to her. Sitting in the nuptial chamber with horror, she will start to face with realities after grandfather-aged groom steps into the room.

During the period of the Wealth Tax, where many non-Muslims in Turkey were forced to pay higher taxes, often in an arbitrary and unrealistic way. Nimet and Durmuş migrate from Niğde to Istanbul and take shelter with Durmuş's friend Bekir, who finds Durmuş a job at the inn. However, making a living by serving as a porter is not in line with Durmuş's ambitions. He wants everything Halit Bey has, the inn owner. Halit Bey begins to dispose of his property in order to pay the tax stipulated to his beloved wife Nora, who was treated in a nursing home. Wealth Tax has begun to affect everyone's destiny.

Ismail (Aytac Arman) is the educated Turk who travels to Asia from Istanbul to escape crushing unemployment in this somber social drama. With an ailing mother-in-law, a bitter wife, and a pretty young daughter to support, he takes a job as a dog killer. Ismail is saddened to see young women his daughter's age forced into prostitution. When he returns home to ask his father and brother for an advance on his inheritance, his wife leaves him. The enemy in question refers to unemployment.

Aysel, while working for the strong Satilmiszade family, is seduced by her boss and becomes pregnant. Giving birth to the child, she applies to the court for alimony, but the father rejects the child. Ali, from another village is concerned with her situation, and he offers her a job: to accompany his disabled mother.

Riza is a truck driver. When his truck breaks down, Riza can’t work and his livelihood is threatened. Using every possible means, he desparately tries to drum up the money for the repairs. And this includes being prepared to commit a brutal crime.

Üftade is a young woman who lives with her parents and is constantly subjected to pressure from her stepfather. Her sister Azade, who had left the house many years ago, comes to visit the family one night with her husband and son Umur. Üftade and Umur start to spend most of their time together. However, as Umur gets to know his aunt, he will also become a partner in her secrets.

Reşat, a withdrawn and asocial young man who works at a pirate DVD shop, represses his feelings for the girl next door, and adds excitement to his life with petty theft. The film turns into a thriller when the shadowy Celal, a friend of Reşat's boss, gets shot just after he leaves a package in the shop and Reşat has to make sense of the photo and the gun it contains.

The film tells the tragic story of an Iraqi-Turkish girl, Cennet, who loses her entire family during a US-led operation against insurgents in her village in US-occupied Iraq. She makes a distressing journey through the border between Turkey and Iraq to find her brother who had been sent to Turkey for treatment.

Ayhan Hanim tells the dramatic story of a family during the 1980 Coup that sadly marks Turkey’s recent history. Ayhan Hanım is a housewife who is not involved with politics. She has four sons. Her husband, Ahmet Bey is a retired sergeant. Ayhan Hanım, her husband and their youngest son stay out of the political turbulences, however, their three other sons are personally involved with the incidents in the chaotic days of 1977. After the coup in 1980, the family’s disintegration begins.

At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries including Georges Danton.

A filmmaker returns to Normandy thirty years after a working on a movie based on a local homicide and tries to find the actors who worked on the project.

The taboo relationship between young Nadav and his Aunt Nina transcends definition on its way to odd highs and lows.

Лос-Анджелес, конец XX века, страна неограниченных возможностей для всех… Ленни и Элоиза любили друг друга и боролись за свою любовь. Элоиза работала секретаршей у богатой актрисы, а вот Ленни был типичным неудачником, причем с амбициями. Он не мог удержаться ни на одной работе, поэтому жил за счёт Элоизы. Но он пытался исправить положение — и попал в полицию за участие в незаконных съёмках порнофильма. Все сбережения ушли на уплату залога. Из квартиры их выгнали. И тогда Ленни и Элоиза пошли на грабёж.

Сессия была сдана и Дениз не виделась со своими друзьями в течении всего лета. За лето накопилось много впечатлений и планов на будущее, и было чем поделиться при встрече с друзьями. В сравнении с взрослой размеренной и монодневной жизнью, у ребят всегда найдется о чем помечтать. Они ставят себе непростые, а очень обременительные задачи. В отличие от остальных ребят, у Дениз совсем заоблачные планы. Ей видится непонятная, безнадежная любовь, одиночество. Она мечтает увидеть и попасть в Другой мир.

В краю привольном жил богатырь Котигорошко. Была у него сестричка Аленка. Но случилось несчастье — украл Аленку страшный Змей и унес в свое подземное царство. Решил Котигорошко освободить сестру и отправился на летающем корабле в дальний путь.

Юго-Запад 9 — больше нигде в Британии нет такого разнообразия людей и уличной культуры. Бесчинства, оружие, наркотики — составляющие части старого Брикстона. Тусовщики, пьяницы плюс самые непотребные клубы Британии и перед вами предстает новый Брикстон.

Mehmet is a man living with his family in a mountain village in the Black Sea region. He earns his living by breeding a few animals, while passionately looking for a mineral reserve on the mountains, but his pursuit is seen useless by his family. Devastated by vain efforts, his hope is renewed with a competition. Mehmet will attend the bull fight held in Artvin, but he returns from Artvin completely lost, once again. This simple story pictures the naive portrait of a touching life, a life struggle in hardship and the relationship between nature, animals and human beings.