2 Weddings 3 Stories is about the changing perception of "marriage" and society of a Jewish family living in Istanbul over three generations. This family, in which each generation is influenced by the previous one and is trying to break the tradition…

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  • Director Seren Kaspi
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During the quarantine process, we watch the monogs performed by a woman alone at home. When these monogs are combined with her inner voice, she gets lost in both sounds and images. Audio and image segments that occur between only a few seconds long s…

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  • Director Çağıl Saydam
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While people are consuming the natural resources on Earth as if there was no tomorrow. Nature, who wants to renew itself despite all obstacles, leaks Mythological Gods and Goddesses, which have four elements, into people with all the trendy details l…

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  • Director Nur Ural
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A filmmaker’s 21-day homage to capture the ethereal essence of her unique ancient homeland soon to be submerged by a hydroelectric dam, AETHER is instinctively carried and driven by emotions, feelings and observations. It reveals the place’s truths f…

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  • Director Rûken Tekeş
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Amina is a 29-year-old Senegalese woman who works as a dress model in a textile company in Istanbul. Leaving her daughter behind, she immigrated to Turkey 7 years ago to earn money and to take care of her daughter’s needs. Amina faces many challenges…

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  • Director Kıvılcım Akay
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A woman, released from prison, drifts between nightmare and reality

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  • Director Ceylan Özgün Özçelik
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The story of what is seen when looking from the opposite window… The short animated film "Rear Window" tells the importance of Gender Equality through the stories of three women caught in gender roles. Neşe, Canan and Rana are three women exposed to …

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  • Director Çiğdem Akdoğan
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Bahar Doğru, who lives in Urla Barbaros Village, starts to run a coffee shop for men at the age of 45. They get a reaction first. He overcomes the difficulties he has faced, sets an example for his village and pioneers change.

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  • Director Hande Yelke
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Sibel, who tries to earn a living by cleaning the ladder of buildings with her baby in the stroller, is in danger of being expelled from the house due to her accumulated rents. While trying to reach her husband Yılmaz, who works in the garbage dump, …

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  • Director Büşra Bülbül
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The documentary begins with the story of the Muslim feminist Konca Kuriş, who was kidnapped and killed by Hizbullah in the '90s. A brief history of Muslim women struggle for equality in Turkey since the killing Konca Kuriş, Why the concept of Islamic…

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  • Director Nebiye Arı
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Zeliha, is a poor laborer who works in a steel soucepan factory. While she is attempting to find new job, she also searchs for solution in order to prevent children noticing this situation. A solution created by her, shows deadlock condition as a res…

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  • Director Öykü Orhan
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Cemile and Sezgin have been carving their love on the walls and streets of Izmir for 5 years. The writers on Dominik Street residents have a wide variety of theories about who these mysterious characters are. This short documentary is about the use o…

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  • Directors Aylin Kuryel, Raşel Meseri
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İklim moves from İstanbul to London in hopes of a better future, but starts having adaptation issues.

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  • Director Yasemin Demirci
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One day , women workers who have always done things right, made a mistake and a story which has to be told was born ... Based on a true story, the movie discusses the problems, which belongs to those women who work in a lingerie workshop, feature the…

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  • Director Gülten Taranç
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Meltem is a 40-year-old woman who lives alone. She remained isolated at home for a long time due to the Covid-19 virus outbreak. A typical middle class, white-collar, Meltem plans a dinner party. She cannot even apply her nail polish without looking …

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  • Director Meltem Cemiloğlu
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Alex is a 3-year-old pekingese dog. His family leaves him alone at home as they go to work every day. But after a while, the situation changes. He tries to get used to a new life with his family, who cannot go out due to a virus that has emerged and …

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  • Director Nisan Uğur
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In the days of Covid-19, women's lives got more difficult under the shadow of the slogan "Life fits into the home". Measures taken to protect against the virus have created an obstacle to protecting women from violence. The quarantine "measures", whi…

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  • Director Çiğdem Mazlum
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In the days of Covid-19, women's lives got more difficult under the shadow of the slogan "Life fits into the home". Measures taken to protect against the virus have created an obstacle to protecting women from violence. The quarantine "measures", whi…

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  • Director Çiğdem Mazlum
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In the days of Covid-19, women's lives got more difficult under the shadow of the slogan "Life fits into the home". Measures taken to protect against the virus have created an obstacle to protecting women from violence. The quarantine "measures", whi…

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  • Director Çiğdem Mazlum
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The story of Zeynep who lives in a small town that starts with her childhood, then her teenage years and then her adulthood…

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  • Directors Elif Akarsu Polat, Çiğdem Bozali
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We learn that a woman who always tries to do something for someone else in life, especially a dwarf, actually does nothing for herself. All that sacrifice, so much good, and the result is zero. Briefly, the life story of a dwarf who continues her lif…

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  • Director Hatice Ersöz
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Merve was born to a Muslim family wheras Rachel was born to a Jewish family, and they are close friends. Merve has some childish naive feelings for black Christian Kevy, and she feels sad when she hears that he is going away. A friendly consolation c…

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  • Directors Olcay Seda Özaltan
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The film focuses on undocumented male Afghan migrants, who are living in illegal housing (gecekondu) in the holiday paradise of Turkey, Antalya. The characters are aged between 15 to 25 and they all are working on recycling of paper and plastics. Whi…

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  • Director Zehra Yiğit
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Ali learns that Derya, the girl he has been talking to at school for a while, is a "easy" girl and, taking advantage of the absence of her family, decides to invite Derya home. However, the relationship between these two adolescents will end the day …

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  • Director Ayris Alptekin
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IN OUT is about a Turkish filmmaker participated in a documentary project organized in Europe and her story of probation and deportation at the landborders of Serbia and Bulgaria. This animated documentary film, consisting of three main parts visuali…

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“Intersectionality or Velhasılıkelam” is an attempt to talk through the overlapping experiences of migrants from Turkey to Germany from different generations through a gender perspective. A 'guest-worker', Hatice, who came to Germany alone in 1973 wh…

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  • Director Özlem Arıyıldız
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“Kam", meaning "Shaman" in old Turkish, is a long exposure pixilation/2D animation film expressing the primal, potent energy of the female body. The film transforms dancer Sevinc Baltali's improvisation into a fierce and exuberant dance flow to the f…

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  • Director Zeynep Akçay
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A woman who has her own camera and channel shares moments of her beautiful life. She broadcasts contentedly as she has the right to be heard by the public. But will she be able to make her voice heard when her life, which she introduces as beautiful …

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  • Director Nisanur Karakuzu
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Intersections change our lives. Mostly in our relationships we affect each other and we begin to have same way of thinking, same habits; like in this movie, same colors...

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  • Director Sevinç İslamoğulları
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The rowing women carry us from Dalyan town to the Kaunos Tombs and Çandır village located on both sides of the canal joining the Aegean Sea. Homes and boats for these women, who have been making a living from rowing for many years without destructing…

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  • Directors Özlem Arıyıldız, Bilge Demirtaş
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A woman tries to remember her forgotten memories by looking at old photos. The deeper she goes into hermemories, the more she gets more confused about the past.

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  • Director Elif Turan
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Nesrin, an urban upper-middle class woman, goes back to her parents’ old village in Anatolia to finish a novel and live out her dream of being a writer. When her conservative mother turns up uninvited and refuses to leave, Nesrin’s writing stalls and…

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  • Director Senem Tüzen
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On one hand, a campaign by a group of women in Newcastle trying to save their historic Turkish Baths from closure. On the other hand, kindled by her childhood memories, a town planner embarks on a journey to find out more about the historic baths in …

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  • Director Şule Takmaz Nişancıoğlu
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In the city life or in the countryside, families want their children to live in good conditions and receive a good education. The METE family, which wants their children to study and have a profession and not to deal with the difficulties in the prov…

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  • Director Merve TULAY
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Mother Selma is a medical doctor at the public hospital. Baba Sinan is a mid-level manager in a private company. An unhappy couple who have lost their tolerance for each other. The only common point between the two is Umut, their 17-year-old water po…

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  • Director Leyla Yılmaz
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While the life of an obese girl continues with the intervention of the people around her, she decides to call it a stop and from now on to make life beautiful for herself.

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  • Director Gülten Taranç
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Fatih Mehmet Macoglu is the first mayor ever in Turkey elected from the Turkish Communist Party. He is the mayor of Ovacik, Tunceli, a small Kurdish-Alevi town in the heart of Eastern Turkey. Unknown to the rest of the world, it is an area where cult…

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  • Directors Ayşegül Selenga Taşkent
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Leyla, who is 18 and deaf, lives with her parents and sick grandma. One day a visitor will come and leave them with an unexpected question forever.

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  • Director Ayşe Nur Gençalp
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The tale of two kids who decide to leave their village without informing their father, in search of their mother who lives in Istanbul.

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  • Directors Farnoosh Samadi, Ali Asgari
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Dinara, who lives in a city that carries the traces of the war, lost her brother in the war. The podium she encounters on her way back from school begins to make her feel hopeful

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  • Directors Asuman Yüksel
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The story of a neighborhood where urban transformation projects are planned to be implemented…

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  • Director Selin Aktaş
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Substance is self-caused. It is being permanent against everlasting changes, ıt is being self-created. As woman we have multiple identities. Tuba is a mother, artist and victim of violence against women. Tuba is neither sum of those nor product of th…

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  • Director Neşe Uğur Nohutcu
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An experimental commentary on Denise Levertov’s poem The Secret “The Secret”.

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A transgender sex worker watches the day go by as she does almost every day, through the small window of her apartment...

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Sabahattin Parlar (90), an electrician born in Istanbul in the 1930s, makes old Ottoman figures from electrical cables in his house on Avşa island. Even though he worked in the electrical business for a long time due to the livelihoods of his time, h…

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  • Director Yağmur Kartal
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A fourteen-year old girl, communicates with a spider in a dark basement, without knowing the time and place.

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  • Director Ceylan Özgün Özçelik
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How does a signature change a person's life? How many people's lives affect by the signature of a persons' individual will? How far back is it necessary to start life again? The schools you studied; high schools, universities… Is it possible to leave…

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  • Directors Çiğdem Mazlum
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Fazilet remained all alone after the death of her young daughter who was ill since a long time. While trying to cope with with the feeling of death, she will find herself in a difficult pursuit after finding a package left from her daughter. With eac…

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  • Director Yeşim Tonbaz
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Suna Kalaycı, who lives in Seferihisar Ulamış neighborhood, makes bread from Karakılçık wheat that is not genetically modified and produces natural soap without additives using traditional methods. The film, in which Sevcan Adakuşu, who lives in the …

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  • Director Hande Yelke
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Remziye (63), who lives in Yardibi village of Saimbeyli district of Adana, reflects her daily activities and her struggle against the harsh conditions in the village. In the photographs of Yardibi Village in 1993, it is seen that mudbrick houses, whi…

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  • Director Çiğdem Akdoğan
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The pandemic process is over. 8-year-old Bade noticed the disturbing abundance in her life. Her mind is on a child she says is out there.

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