Nazım Hikmet Ran

Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over the past thirty years. The participating filmmakers have each created a short film for the project, all shot on iPhones.

A beautiful young woman named Aishe tends a fragile oasis, the sole source of life amid the surrounding barrenness. An evil desert spirit, embodying destruction and greed, seeks to annihilate the oasis. As danger looms, a wandering cloud falls in love with Aishe and chooses to protect the oasis. The film features mixed techniques —puppets, marionettes, and hand-drawn animation— & based on a script by a Turkish poet Nâzım Hikmet Ran, who lived in exile in Soviet Union.

The events taking place around an illegitimate child named Tosun.

It tells the story of the funny situations that occur when the advertisements placed in an advertising agency are mixed up due to the carelessness of the staff working in the office.

A spring is hidden in the Iron Mountain but the people of Arzen cannot get to it and they are suffering from thirst.

The Eastern Kingdom. Princess Shirin is ill with a fatal disease. A mysterious stranger appears in the palace and offers to heal the princess, but in return, her sister, Queen Mehmené-Banu, must sacrifice her beauty and become ugly... The queen agrees, and Shirin recovers. As time passes, the sisters meet the handsome artist Ferhad...

A parable of man going through war & peace and finding unity in the end.

The railway station in a small town in Western Anatolia where no birds or caravans pass, during the most active and critical days of the National War of Independence in 1921. One is the station chief, who lost his eye and the other foot on the front, and the other was left with caries, and the other was the wife of the station chief.

A young lawyer named Vakil Ahmed earned the nickname "The Oddball" for his honest and truthful words, as well as the purity of his soul. Many people in society give and receive bribes, including Vakil Ahmed, which causes him to lose his faith. Thanks to the worker Salim, Vakil Ahmed is released from prison.

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.

All the cavalry on horseback. Then one of them fell off his horse. The army did not turn to look at the fallen soldier. The horsemen marched in all their splendor to the setting sun. That's when the soldier, left alone, remembered the past. A free adaptation of Nazim Hikmet Ran's poem "Weeping Willow".

Shepherd Hayret Efendi suddenly rises to the position of Grand Vizier. After becoming Grand Vizier, Hayret Efendi makes many wrong decisions. Following these decisions, the Janissaries and Sipahis revolt and decide to execute the Grand Vizier. To escape this situation, the Grand Vizier consults his father-in-law.

Childhood friends Ahmet and Nuri, the sons of poor farmers, grew up together, studied together, and worked together in a factory. Together, they publish the magazine Light, which opposes the colonial policies of foreign capital and military pacts. After their first imprisonment, the friends' paths diverge: Nuri betrays his convictions and joins a reactionary newspaper. His life is now safe, but he finds no joy or peace. Meanwhile, Ahmet, having become one of the main enemies of the reactionaries, attracts more and more patriots to his side.

The daughter of the lord of the village and a poor herdsman cannot get married for traditional reasons, but the village elders find a way out of this dilemma: if the herdsman manages to make his thirsty sheep cross the river without drinking from the water then the marriage will be allowed.

The story of composer Sadullah Aga who fell in love with the Sultan's concubine and fell into the dungeons.

The legendary love story of Ferhat and Sirin.

The film is about turkish poet Nazim Hikmat's autobiography.

A documentary film about Bursa city.

23 Cents Soldier is shaped around the memories of four Turkish and three Korean war veterans. The interviews begin with the lives of the veterans before the beginning of the war and continue with memories of the war and post-war era.

A young hapless couple's devotion for each other is tested through harsh times of war as they are forced to negate patriotism and dependability to their families and nations, for a length of a lifetime before during and after the war. This movie is not a colorfull. About 5 years later, this movie was shot again wtih same actors and actresses (except for Selda Alkor).