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- DirectorHouman SeyyediStarsMohsen TanabandehMahsa HejaziNeda JebraeiliAfter being cast in a movie, a day laborer has to secretly shelter his lover on the set or else risk losing her and all that movie stardom has promised him.
- DirectorFiliz KukaStarsMehmet Bilge AslanTülay BursaAsiye DinçsoyHizir loses his wife Halime, who has been in intensive care for a long time. Her daughter, Hatice, learns from the nurse Evren, who had been devotedly helping her ailing mother, that he caused her mother's death. Hatice tries to be compassionate to her father, who comes to her house. She refrains from revealing the truth to him, but after a while, she can't keep this secret anymore and shares it with her sister, Kader. While thinking that they should tell Evren's confession to their father, Kader thinks they should go to the police. Kader's persistence on her sister creates an existential problem for Hatice, who is crushed under the weight of Evren's confession. All family members have to face the truth at a family dinner.
- DirectorFikret ReyhanStarsSelen KurtaranUgur KarabulutAlper ÇankayaNesrin who lives with her four-year-old son, struggles with her ex-husband Ömer's oppressive behavior and bureaucratic hardships while she is on the brink of making a critical decision regarding her relationship with her boyfriend Selim.
- DirectorTayfun PirselimogluStarsErdem SenocakJale ArikanRiza AkinCAN witnesses a murder in a small town.The police don't allow him to leave after his testimony.On the other hand,a quarantine is declared due to rabid dogs.The whole town turns into purgatory with no exit is almost at the edge of insanity.
- DirectorEmre ErdogduStarsHalil BabürHayal KöseogluSermet YesilThis film is about the gravity of the desire for being loved.
- DirectorÜmit ÜnalStarsSelen UçerEce DizdarAysenil SamliogluAfter not having seen each other for 20 years, two women are reunited on the small Turkish island where, as teenagers, they first fell in love. What is the mysterious force that binds them together after all this time? And what can they do about it?
- DirectorLeyla YilmazStarsSenan KaraYurdaer OkurEmir ÖzdenWater polo player Young Umut lives in a family that is not satisfied with their lives. His parents Selma and Sinan find it difficult to endure each other, and Umut is after to prove himself. Then rumors start circulating that Umut is gay.
- DirectorBora KimStarsPark Ji-huKim Sae-byeokJeong In-giSeoul 1994, in the year the Seongsu Bridge collapsed, 14-year-old Eunhee wanders the city searching for love.
- DirectorEmin AlperStarsCemre EbuzziyaEce YükselHelin KandemirThree young girls are sent back to their father in a poor village in central Anatolia, one after another, after failing in more affluent foster families.
- DirectorOsman Nail DoganStarsSeyit Nizam YilmazMert Bugra TatarogluKutay SandikçiA rogue teenager who is a pigeon thief aids an 8-year-old child who is trying to complete the house foundation from his father by doing the job he knows best.
- DirectorVuslat SaraçogluStarsBeyti EnginFeridun KoçSerdar OrçinA print shop worker, Tufan, takes in a neighbor with emphysema and helps his daughter take care of a wounded bird, but tensions develop at his economically struggling business and strains develop because of his house guest with his marriage.
- DirectorMurat DüzgünogluStarsMuhammet UzunerBaran Sükrü BabacanGüler ÖktenReturning home to Adana to help his mother with the orange harvest, Mahir meets an unexpected guest: Halef, who believes he is the reincarnation of Mahir's long-dead older brother.
- DirectorYesim UstaogluStarsFunda EryigitEcem UzunMehmet KurtulusTwo Turkish women, one oppressed by sexist traditions and one liberated by modern mores, have more in common than it would seem.
- DirectorFikret ReyhanStarsUmut AlagülAkan AtakanErsin BuyarIn a field surrounded and squeezed by increasing industrialization, an immigrant family, deep in financial debt, struggles to survive through traditional farming. Their son, Ibrahim, dreams of a different future for himself.
- DirectorJoão Pedro RodriguesStarsPaul HamyJoão Pedro RodriguesXelo CagiaoFernando, a solitary ornithologist, is looking for black storks when he is swept away by the rapids. Rescued by a couple of Chinese pilgrims, he plunges into an eerie and dark forest, trying to get back on his track.
- DirectorRodrigo PláStarsJana RaluySebastián AguirreHugo AlboresWhen her insurance company refuses to approve the care her husband needs to survive, Sonia Bonet (Jan Raluy) takes things into her own hands. Up against an unyielding bureaucracy and disinterested workers, she is pushed to her breaking point: with her son in tow, she attempts to fight the system.
- DirectorAhu ÖztürkStarsAsiye DinçsoyNazan KesalDidem InselelNesrin and Hatun are two Kurdish cleaning women living in Istanbul. While Nesrin tries to survive with her little daughter, trying to understand why her husband left her, Hatun dreams of buying a house in the district where they clean.
- DirectorÜmit KörekenStarsSelim KayaEray KilicarslanKatya Shenkova12-year-old Ali lives an austere life in the Anatolian countryside. He's saving up his hard-earned money for his big dream: a brand-new, blue bicycle. When Elif, the girl he is secretly in love with, becomes the victim of a great injustice at school, Ali takes up the passionate fight for democracy and against a system stuck in its ways.
- DirectorEskil VogtStarsEllen Dorrit PetersenHenrik RafaelsenVera VitaliForsaken in a new Oslo apartment, a frail blind woman battles to come to terms with her condition, as she slowly retracts into an elaborate fantasy bubble. Are her stories fanning her suspicions, or is this what total blindness looks like?
- DirectorTayfun PirselimogluStarsErcan KesalMaryam ZareeRiza AkinHe works in a kitchen in Istanbul. She is working with him. Her husband goes to jail.
- DirectorKazim ÖzStarsSaim CalarGamze CalarIsmehan CalarEvery year, a Kurdish family leaves Gaziantep (Anatolia) to work on the land near Ankara. This thankless life of seasonal labor turns upside down when the eldest son falls in love.
- 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.
- DirectorEmin AlperStarsTamer LeventReha ÖzcanMehmet ÖzgürWhen some people from the other side of the mountain invade the territory of a farming family, the family head tries to unite the family and fight back. But then problems within the family start to appear as well.