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- DirectorNesli ÇölgeçenStarsSener SenErdal ÖzyagcilarNilgün NazliThe landlord of a village in eastern Turkey decides to sell his land after a severe drought and migrates to Istanbul with his family. However the struggle for survival in the 'big city' will not be easier for them.
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsMuhammet UzunerYilmaz ErdoganTaner BirselA group of men set out in search of a dead body in the Anatolian steppes.
- DirectorZeki DemirkubuzStarsUfuk BayraktarVildan AtaseverEngin AkyürekBekir loves Ugur, who loves Zagor, who is about to get out of jail. An already tense love triangle is thrown into turmoil on a hot summer night, when Zagor kills someone, and Ugur disappears.
- DirectorYavuz TurgulStarsSener SenUgur YücelSermin HürmeriçIngenuous countryman Ali Nazik migrates to Istanbul and meets producer Muhsin Kanadikirik to have his first album.
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsMuzaffer ÖzdemirMehmet Emin ToprakZuhal GencerAfter his wife leaves him, a photographer has an existential crisis and tries to cope with his cousin's visit.
- DirectorErtem EgilmezStarsKemal SunalMünir ÖzkulHalit AkçatepeLazy, uneducated students share a very close bond. They live together in the dormitory, where they plan their latest pranks. When a new headmaster arrives, the students naturally try to overthrow him. A comic war of nitwits follows.
- DirectorZeki ÖktenStarsTarik AkanMelike DemiragTuncel KurtizBecause of a local blood feud, a peasant family in eastern Turkey decides to sell its sheep in far away Ankara.
- DirectorSerif GörenYilmaz GüneyStarsTarik AkanSerif SezerHalil ErgünWhen five Kurdish prisoners are granted one week's home leave, they find to their dismay that they face continued oppression outside of prison from their families, the culture, and the government.
- DirectorYavuz TurgulStarsSener SenPitircik AkermanAytaç YörükaslanHasmet, director of love stories, wants to make a film with a "social content". With great difficulties he finally succeeds, but the response is not the one he hoped for.
- DirectorAtif YilmazStarsKemal SunalMüjde ArAdile NasitA poor peasant, Feyzo returns from military service dreaming about getting married to Gülo, the love of his life. However, he has to face many obstacles. According to tradition, a man has to pay a lot of money to the bride's father in order to get the bride's hand.
- DirectorMetin ErksanStarsZerrin ArbasAhmet ArkanAn adaptation of the story of Sait Faik Abasiyanik, remarkably portraying the character's story-line, presenting his past and people he knew, who passed away in the past, inside the compartments of a train.
- DirectorDervis ZaimStarsAhmet UgurluTuncel KurtizAysen AydemirMahsun is homeless and unemployed. He lives in Rumelihisari (one of the most picturesque and oldest quarters of Istanbul), and tries to stay alive with the help of local fishermen. Mahsun loves cars, he steals at nights and in the mornings he drives them back clean and well kept.
- DirectorÖzer KiziltanStarsErkan CanMeray ÜlgenGüven KiraçA promotion brings a Muslim's relationship with God into question.
- DirectorZeki DemirkubuzStarsSerdar OrçinZeynep TokusEngin GünaydinMusa, who works as a bookkeeper in the customs office, believes in the emptiness and absurdity of life. He doesn't struggle to change his life; he lets himself flow along with events because he thinks that it all leads to the same end. The death of his mother doesn't affect him. Although he loves her, her death makes him joyful.
- DirectorYavuz TurgulStarsSener SenSevket AltugLarissa LitichevskayaMahmut and Abidin work as comedians at a night club, Mahmut is honest yet Abidin is sly. Sulo brings a deaf and dumb girl named Kumru, to working the night club, but the club owner sends her away, she in he sees that Kumru is deaf and dumb.
- DirectorErtem EgilmezStarsSener SenMüjde ArUgur YücelThis is the tragicomic story of two lovers who cannot ever get together. Sener is the son of a simple family in the village and he is in love with the village headman's daughter Mujde. Kaya is also in love with Mujde. With Kaya's misleading, Mujde's father is against her marriage with Sener and does everything to prevent it.
- DirectorKartal TibetStarsKemal SunalNevra SerezliMetin SerezliZübük gets expelled from the political party that he is a member of, due to corruption. The journalist Yasar wants to make a news story about his case and investigates Zübük's doings. Yasar gets baffled at the sly tricks Zübük played on his village people.
- DirectorMert BaykalStarsFerhan SensoyRasim ÖztekinAli ÇatalbasBased on a true event, the film tells the tragicomic story of three friends who end up in prison when they are mistaken as members of a terrorist organization.
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsEmin CeylanMuzaffer ÖzdemirFatma CeylanMuzaffer goes to the house where his parents live for the movie he will shoot. He is thinking of starring his relatives in the movie he will shoot. But his father struggles with the forest administration for the oaks he grows. His mother, on the other hand, does not feel well because of the diseases brought by old age.
- DirectorErtem EgilmezStarsTarik AkanKahraman KiralHalit AkçatepeTwo poor men try to find a television as a last wish for the terminally ill brother of one of them.
- DirectorUgur YücelStarsKenan ImirzaliogluOlgun SimsekBahri BeyatYazi Tura is the film of two stories taking place in 1999. Stories of two young men... One is "Ridvan the Devil", a young football player from Central Anatolia, Cappadocia / Goreme, and the "Cevher the Ghost", a young man who is living with his father in Istanbul. Both went to the army together, and fought in the Eastern Anatolia.
- DirectorSinan ÇetinStarsIlyas SalmanSener SenAysen GrudaAbbas is the assistant of Sakir who is a rogue guy, and Abbas has a dream which is to buy a minibus for his own.
- DirectorSerif GörenStarsKadir InanirFatma GirikSerpil ÇakmakliKara Bayram is a poor farmer living in a village with his wife, 3 kids and his mother Irazca. They live on their own until another villager, Haceli who is backed up by the Mukhtar starts to build a new house right in front of their's. Kara Bayram and Irazca do not accept these uninvited neighbors from the first day and unwanted events start right away.
- DirectorMustafa AltioklarStarsOkan BayülgenMüjde ArSavas DinçelA young car mechanic, while in the middle of an unlikely love affair, tries to protect the people in his poor gypsy neighborhood from a gangster who terrorizes the locals.
- DirectorZeki DemirkubuzStarsEngin GünaydinSerhat TutumluerNihal YalçinA man's life, thoughts, feelings and his very own darkness... Adapted from Dostoevsky's novel "Notes from Undergroud", Demirkubuz follows Muharrem as he gets himself invited to a party where he is not welcome, just to find himself disgusted.
- DirectorYüksel AksuStarsNejat AltinsoyMehmet AmcaLevent ArasAli, who is ice cream salesman in Mugla, tries to survive in the face of fierce competition from the big ice cream brands. While trying to promote his ice cream, he tours the village with his brand new yellow ice cream motorbike. However the naughty boys of the town who are chasing him to have free ice cream, steal the motorbike while he is away.
- DirectorBay OkanStarsIlyas SalmanValérie LemoineMicky SébastianThe film is based on 'Fikrimin Ince Gulu', a novel by Adalet Agaoglu, which depicts a first generation guest-worker returning home. It covers his land journey in short bursts from Germany to the Turkey's west border and extensively from thereon to his village close to Ankara.
- DirectorYavuz ÖzkanStarsCüneyt ArkinTarik AkanHalil ErgünMine workers in Turkey struggling for better working conditions.
- DirectorYilmaz GüneyStarsTuncel KurtizAyse Emel Mesci KurayMalik BerrichiTeens in a Turkish prison struggle to survive under hideous conditions.
- DirectorSerdar AkarStarsErkan CanHaldun BoysanYildiray SahinlerSailors want to remain in their small world, warm and cozy and full of lies, but they kidnap a prostitute from some pimps.
- DirectorYilmaz GüneyStarsYilmaz GüneyKerim AfsarMelike DemiragAfter betraying his social class, denying his peasant roots and fleeing his native village, Cemil has become a successful businessman and has found a place in the sun among the bourgeoisie. Azem, his childhood friend, has followed a quite different way. refusing the rat race, he has remained close to people of humble origin.
- DirectorMetin ErksanStarsErol TasHülya KoçyigitUlvi DoganA farmer has a violent dispute with his fellow villagers by claiming ownership of the water that comes out of his land. He is as sexually frustrated as greedy.
- DirectorTunç BasaranStarsOzan BilenNur SürerFüsun DemirelBaris, a 5 year-old little boy, has to stay in a prison with her mother during her detention period. Baris develops a special relationship with Inci, a young woman who also stays in prison. She promises him that the kite will fly someday.
- DirectorZeki ÖktenStarsKemal SunalSehnaz DilanYaman OkayYoksul is a well-meaning man who works as a tea maker. The owner of tea house takes advantage of his good intentions. At same office block a girl whom Yoksul love, plays with Yoksul's good intentions and takes money from him. One day a man advises Yoksul how to behave. The events which Yoksul lives, looks like ordinary but they have power to change all roles.
- DirectorZeki DemirkubuzStarsZeki DemirkubuzSebnem HassanisoughiÖykü KarayelUpon losing his wife and son, Ahmet has to struggle with the feeling of loneliness.