Mehmet Güreli

A Warm Gaze: Mehmet Güreli explores the multifaceted body of work of Mehmet Güreli, one of Türkiye’s leading artists and a master of music, cinema, painting, and literature. Through the lens of Gamze Terra, the documentary offers an intimate journey into Güreli’s profound and multilayered artistic universe.

With no previous film experience, the master director finds herself in the magical world of film sets, embarking on an artistic journey that began with coincidences that changed the course of her life. Inspired by the work of established filmmakers, Biket İlhan developed her skills as if she were attending a school. Despite facing many challenges, including the difficulty of finding producers for her films, she persevered and built her extraordinary legacy brick by brick. She took bold steps to achieve this, always maintaining her commitment to art and his independent stance in the world of cinema. Are you ready to witness her determination to realise her dreams, her resilience in the face of challenges and the intricacies of the filmmaking process — all without worrying about box-office success, but simply following her heart?

Boats... Boats side by side. Boats waiting for the hour of anchoring away into blue. Soon they will be on the way to the wharfs awaiting them. Desolate, lonely piers... Boats whistles declaring to the world that it is time to set out. Boats rejoicing their encounters. Boats hugging each other, boats that sing parting songs. Tired boats at the end of the day. Boats that are ready to go to sleep in the darkness of night. Boats...

Quiet and introverted toll booth clerk Kenan's life, a humdrum routine between the Tavsancik toll booth plaza and his home, will change the day the new operations chief comes to inspect Tavsancik.

Adapted from Peyami Safa’s novel Selma and Her Shadow, the movie tells the story of Selma. Selma (Görkem Yeltan) is the ultimate femme fatale whose alluring and seductive nature and irresistible charms exude an aura of death for men.

Necip Sarıcı is one of the shining lights of our cinema. Sound engineer, photographer, writer, producer, collector, who felt as if he entered the treasure room of Topkapı Palace when he entered the sound room at Lale Film Studio...He is one of the most important building blocks of our cinema. The history of cinema in our country is carried to the present day thanks to his enormous collection.

Abdurrahman Keskiner is one of the big guns of Turkish cinema. In Türkiye's national productions' history, his working method distinguishes him as a producer from the rest. Even though it may seem contradictory at first glance, he never gives up on investing in subtlety. Other producers have not pursued the same hope over and over and invested all of their earnings in shooting films ambitiously after making a loss. Yet, Abdurrahman Keskiner was an exception to this. He took great strides in promoting Türkiye's cinema to the world.