Hakan Karsak

Butterflies

Three strangers with one thing in common — the same father — come to a Turkish village to bury him, and learn about him and each other.

Wolves

District Governor Behçet and his screenwriter wife Ilgın settle in a village where the villagers are pressuring them to drain a water canal into which their children have fallen and drowned. Behçet denies his responsibility for the incident and blames the villagers for the deaths of the children, while Ilgın stays out of everything and sees what happened as the material for a screenplay. The villagers are determined to avenge their children.

Before Your Eyes

After their parents are murdered, two young Kurdish children are forced to live on the street.

Keeping the Bees

Ayşe returns to her hometown in northeastern Turkey to nurse her gravely ill mother. Before she dies, Ayse’s mother tells her that she will leave Ayse her much loved bee hives to manage. Ayse’s modern life has moved her away from the mountains of her childhood – a life in which the bees and their honey were central. But she puts her city life on hold to manage the bees, which provide a distraction from her grief. Ayse slowly starts to work with the local bee keeper to manage the hives but finds the lessons of her childhood are buried deep and the hives are more difficult to manage than she remembers. Ayse’s failure to pay needful attention to local advice sees her mothers bee hives seriously damaged, if not lost forever. What’s more a Caucasian bear becomes a real threat to her hives and her life.

Personal Opinion

Working together for many years, two policemen decide to steal by taking a tip from a thief. In the house they enter to rob, they become the prisoners of the power struggle that develops with wrong ideas. The struggle for supremacy, which completely takes them under control, continues with various lies. Telling the biggest lie will commit the biggest crime.

Ay Lav Yu

Mukhtar Yusuf Ağa’s unregistered village in eastern Anatolia has been championed through letters to government officials, and his lost son İbrahim, rescued and registered by Father Hana, is finally returning at age 30 with his American love Jessica; the question is whether Tinne can become their true homeland.

My Brother 2

Two famous brothers, Hakan and Ozan's friends Tato died. Two days later, Hakan's wedding was held, but they went to a friend's house to fulfill their last duties. Hakan will marry Didem, the daughter of Muzaffer, one of Rize's leading tea merchants. Muzaffer is a reaction to this marriage because Hakan is a famous singer. They find themselves in the Black Sea from the Aegean to Central Anatolia, beyond the borders as if they are not enough, and at the end of the journey filled with surprises.

Muska

Celal, 30ish year old writer at a magazine. He is fond of beautiful girls. After getting busted by his girlfriend with another girl,he kicked out from their apartment. He searches for a place to stay and searches a place to stay. He stops by an old, ruined house for a room for rent. He checks the room, he revolts from the mess. While leaving the house, he sees a beautiful girl is living next door... He changes his mind and hires the room. Unaware of strange things will happen in the house.

Butterflies

Three strangers with one thing in common — the same father — come to a Turkish village to bury him, and learn about him and each other.

Wolves

District Governor Behçet and his screenwriter wife Ilgın settle in a village where the villagers are pressuring them to drain a water canal into which their children have fallen and drowned. Behçet denies his responsibility for the incident and blames the villagers for the deaths of the children, while Ilgın stays out of everything and sees what happened as the material for a screenplay. The villagers are determined to avenge their children.

Before Your Eyes

After their parents are murdered, two young Kurdish children are forced to live on the street.

Keeping the Bees

Ayşe returns to her hometown in northeastern Turkey to nurse her gravely ill mother. Before she dies, Ayse’s mother tells her that she will leave Ayse her much loved bee hives to manage. Ayse’s modern life has moved her away from the mountains of her childhood – a life in which the bees and their honey were central. But she puts her city life on hold to manage the bees, which provide a distraction from her grief. Ayse slowly starts to work with the local bee keeper to manage the hives but finds the lessons of her childhood are buried deep and the hives are more difficult to manage than she remembers. Ayse’s failure to pay needful attention to local advice sees her mothers bee hives seriously damaged, if not lost forever. What’s more a Caucasian bear becomes a real threat to her hives and her life.

Personal Opinion

Working together for many years, two policemen decide to steal by taking a tip from a thief. In the house they enter to rob, they become the prisoners of the power struggle that develops with wrong ideas. The struggle for supremacy, which completely takes them under control, continues with various lies. Telling the biggest lie will commit the biggest crime.

Ay Lav Yu

Mukhtar Yusuf Ağa’s unregistered village in eastern Anatolia has been championed through letters to government officials, and his lost son İbrahim, rescued and registered by Father Hana, is finally returning at age 30 with his American love Jessica; the question is whether Tinne can become their true homeland.

My Brother 2

Two famous brothers, Hakan and Ozan's friends Tato died. Two days later, Hakan's wedding was held, but they went to a friend's house to fulfill their last duties. Hakan will marry Didem, the daughter of Muzaffer, one of Rize's leading tea merchants. Muzaffer is a reaction to this marriage because Hakan is a famous singer. They find themselves in the Black Sea from the Aegean to Central Anatolia, beyond the borders as if they are not enough, and at the end of the journey filled with surprises.

Muska

Celal, 30ish year old writer at a magazine. He is fond of beautiful girls. After getting busted by his girlfriend with another girl,he kicked out from their apartment. He searches for a place to stay and searches a place to stay. He stops by an old, ruined house for a room for rent. He checks the room, he revolts from the mess. While leaving the house, he sees a beautiful girl is living next door... He changes his mind and hires the room. Unaware of strange things will happen in the house.

Bimba

Sixteen-year-old Sara, on a blue voyage with her family, suddenly notices the presence of a stranger on the deck of the boat.

Why Can't I Be Tarkovsky?

Bahadır, an aspiring 35-year-old director, spends his life making cheap television films inspired by the stories of folk songs. On the other hand, he has a great ambition to make films like his idol, Tarkovsky. He stands between his dreams and the real, tragicomic conditions.

Across the Sea

Damla reluctantly returns to her Turkish summer town with her American husband. Her bitter past is soon to be unveiled.

The Lamb

In a small village, young Mert is about to get traditionally circumcised, but the family does not have the money to follow up with the circumcision celebration. The family wants to be able to serve lamb meat to the guests at the celebration. Mert’s older sister scares him that if they cannot afford a lamb the father will slaughter him instead.

Eyyvah Eyvah 3

Life is tough for Geyikli clarinetist Huseyin Badem after marrying his true love, Mujgan. He must grab every opportunity that comes his way to take care of his expanding family, even if it means playing clarinet by night for dingy clubs in the area.

Ivy

When the crew of a bankrupt cargo ship gets stuck on board for months, isolation breeds pressures that sink the men into a sea of madness and terror.

Keep a Lid on It

Chaos erupts when members of two notorious Istanbul mobs arrive at a seaside town for family vacations.

Dog

An ordinary day in the megacity of Istanbul: Ten-year-old Cemo sells paper tissues in the streets, Hayat is controlled by her husband and transsexual Ebru sells her body. All three have a secret love and they do everything that satisfies their longing, if only for a moment. An authentic, delicate and unsettling story about love and death and the Turkish society at the beginning of the 21st century.

Press

The story of a Kurdish newspaper whose journalists are under the constant threat of being abducted and killed by the state security forces.

Consequences

Cenk has just arrived back to Istanbul from the United States. Suppressed love slowly begins to resurface after he encounters Ece, a woman whom he had a romantic relationship with in the past. Suddenly, there is a robbery attempt in a quiet and gloomy house, which results in a crime being committed.

Hilal, Feza and Other Planets

After Turkey’s february 1997 military intervention, Hilal and Fatma left their town to study at university in Istanbul. Feza lives downstairs in their lodgings, has fled as village where was cruelly bullied for being a transgender woman. Hilal chooses to help Feza and Fatma.

As We Breathe

When a chemical fire spreads smoke across her village, young Esma must help her father manage new and old troubles in this brutal and powerful look at a rural Anatolian family.

Bandits Cannot Rule The World

The series tells the life of Hizir Çakırbeyli. A mob boss who entered the realm of the mafia at a young age.

Farewell Letter

Alanur, a modern and strong businesswoman, and Ziya, a businessman from Antakya, who is close to his traditions, had a great love in the past. Because their families were against this love, they unintentionally separated and started other lives. Mehmet, the pupil of his mother Seher, is Ziya's eldest son, who plans to quit his job in the future. A dance enthusiast full of life, Aslı is Alanur's 19-year-old girl studying in the last year of French high school, where she has carefully designed every move of her future. Alanur and Ziya's paths cross once again after many years with Aslı and Mehmet's love.

Mahkum

Firat is a successful prosecutor convicted of murdering his wife and child. He wakes up one day with amnesia and doesn't know why he's in prison. He is seeking to regain his memory and clear his name. He has to escape from prison to reveal the truth.

Tears of a Bride

Making plans for the future of her children, Yeşil's path crosses with the famous football player Yasin Bıçakçı. However, life has other plans for Yeşil, who has been trying to implement the plan she has designed for years.

Vicdan

Cezailer

In the Rosenhan Experiment, one of the most shocking experiments in the history of science, psychiatrist David Rosenhan and seven of his sane friends are admitted to different psychiatric hospitals around the country, waiting for doctors to distinguish themselves from the truly sick.

Family Joy

The story tells the story of three related families who do not know each other and are forced to live together.