Majid Panahi

Dog days of summer in a Kurdish city in Turkey, two unruly bright twins from a poor neighborhood are distracted by their daily routine and school duties, having an only goal in life: to dive into a proper swimming pool, one in particular, in the luxury site on their way to school. Between them and their dream, a boundary wall and behind it the stubborn and irreproachable watchmen who​‘​s​ everyday their laughing stock. They will start their little own class warfare.

In the middle of a fire alarm at an art school, a staff member receives devastating news and finds an unexpected moment of connection with a student inside a weird costume.

Two years after escaping from an ISIS prison in Mosul, a once successful Turkish war photographer is still a mess. He can’t sleep or forgive his wife for what happened to their daughter while he was away. When Hazar visits a hammam, he is confronted by the man who destroyed his life. But discovering that his former torturer is hiding a secret much greater and more dangerous than any terrorist plot, Hazar realizes his plan for revenge has led him back into the war where people are just game birds forced to fight for pleasure and profit. This time he has brought the cockfight home.

The life of Nazan, who runs the small town bakery "Tatlı Maya" (Bread of Hope) all on her own, changes when a young Syrian woman named Rana walks through her door. Already in labor, Rana gives birth to her baby inside the bakery. Having lost her husband, been evicted from her home, and left with nowhere else to go, Rana is taken in by Nazan—first into her own home, and later into the bakery. As a quiet bond forms between the two women amidst the rhythms of daily life, rumors begin to spread and intensify throughout the town. Fueled in part by Sami—a man who has long harbored an interest in Nazan—these prejudices lead customers to abandon the bakery, eventually resulting in the authorities sealing off "Tatlı Maya" on the grounds that Rana was being employed there illegally. Nazan begins to pay a heavy price for the decision she made.

The story follows a tragic sequence of events that begins when Yusuf, a successful lawyer, loses his infant child due to a mistake. In the aftermath, Yusuf experiences an internal collapse, burdened by profound remorse and guilt, while his wife, Ayşe, falls into a deep depression—pushing their marriage to the brink of a major crisis. The film explores the weight of conscience by drawing a metaphorical parallel between the tragic fate of the deceased infant and a "dead bee," which serves as a symbol for lost innocence and inner suffering. Centered on themes of tragedy, loss, and guilt, the narrative unfolds as a journey of internal transformation; the characters must confront their own inner worlds, seek to forgive one another, and attempt to rebuild their lives in the wake of their pain, ultimately searching for the possibility of absolution.