Miray Akay

A fisherman, his wife and young daughter who is unable to speak lives in a village on the shores of a lake. Their story starts with a myth of a fish, trying to find a cure for their daughter.

On the border of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and the Greek village of Limya lies the frontier hamlet of Akıncılar, where the call to prayer mingles with church bells and Turkish music blends with Greek melodies, and people from Diyarbakır and Cyprus live side by side. In this village there are three children, each thirteen years old, bound together by fate and traveling a shared path. Their story unfolds amid a ritual that becomes ever more tangled: the drama of “child brides.”

In a small Turkish town, two young tuberculous poets try to survive while publishing their poems. As they both fall in love, their life would never be the same.

Inhospitable at the best of times, the snow-covered mountainscapes of Eastern Anatolia constituted a fatal frontier for many war exiles after the battle of Sarikamish in 1915, and provides a canvas laced with beauty and threat for this bone-chilling survival yarn, the superb debut feature of Alphan Eşeli. Starting out with three characters – a refugee mother and daughter and their grizzled guide – the film traces their daunting trek across this barren terrain to safety, with the Russians encroaching and other stragglers, including a pair of wounded, frostbitten Ottoman soldiers, all orbiting the same burnt-out village they find in their path. Puncturing its aura of ghostly impasse with some shocking narrative reversals, and constantly prickling with the mutual dread of strangers in gruelling extremes, the movie stakes out hugely credible ground next to established Eastern Front war classics (In the Fog, Come and See) while remaining thoroughly its own beast. (Source: LFF programme)

A well-located but poor district in Istanbul, surrounded by gardens, flowers, and trees, is to be leveled by a construction company in order to be able to build higher-quality real estate there. There is resistance to these plans, especially among young people in the neighborhood.

The epic continuation of Diriliş Ertuğrul, Kuruluş Osman follows Osman Bey — son of Ertuğrul and destined founder of the Ottoman Empire — as he transforms a small Turkic tribe into a sovereign state. Battling the Byzantine Empire, Mongol forces and treachery from within, Osman must prove himself as both a warrior and a leader. A sweeping historical action drama built on faith, honour and the birth of one of history's greatest empires.

Güneş finds her prince charming at the age of 35, after raising 3 daughters and completely giving up hope on love. When she accepts the marriage proposal of Istanbul businessman Haluk Mertoğlu, Güneş and her troublesome daughters fall like a bomb into the middle of the Mertoğlu family's life. All of them have different wishes and expectations from their new lives, but the life of the Mertoğlu family is not as perfect as it seems. With the arrival of Güneş and her daughters, the secrets of the past will begin to be revealed one by one.

Our Story / Bizim Hikaye (2017) is a Turkish FOX drama (70 episodes, 2 seasons) starring Hazal Kaya and Burak Deniz, adapted from Shameless. Twenty-year-old Filiz has sacrificed everything — school, dreams, youth — to raise her five younger siblings after their mother abandoned them and their alcoholic father Fikri proves useless. When mysterious Barış enters her life and falls hard for her, Filiz must decide if love has any place in her impossible world.