Deceptive Depths

When a renowned film director, clashes with the young son of a house she's using as a filming location, a power struggle ensues, forcing the director to confront her own arrogance.

Tuncel Kurtiz is an international actor who has worked in various countries such as Turkey, Germany, and Sweden throughout his fifty-year career. He has starred in countless works in cinema, stage and television and has received many awards, including the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. He has directed two documentaries and a feature-length fiction film. Kurtiz's acting performance ranges from popular melodramas to major plays such as Mahabharata (Peter Brook), encompassing many different genres and styles. As an actor, Kurtiz believes in the creative power of chaos: 'Chaos is the most difficult to create / Not a false chaos / Many things come out of chaos'. Through testimonies, film excerpts, and archive footage, this documentary reflects Tuncel Kurtiz's diverse body of artistic work in all its dimensions for the first time. In the background of this detailed portrait are Turkey's turbulent years and the reality of exile.

Cansu and Oguz, a couple in their mid-twenties, deeply love each other for many years. Oguz is a strong person who always supports and motivates his partner whereas Cansu’s love is inspiring for everyone around but she is always afraid about becoming distanced from Oguz. However, this fear unexpectedly turns into different feelings when her concerns become real in the most extreme way.

Alis, an Armenian woman in Turkey, returns to her summerhouse to find her surroundings gone. Urban change threatens her home. Haunted by childhood traumas, she resists, planting her plastic umbrella as a quiet yet firm defiance.

Murat is a dedicated construction worker building a gargantuan wall for a boss whom none of the workers has ever seen. After the departure of his colleague, Ali, and his relocation on the other side of the wall imposed by Yavuz, the boss' right-hand, Murat sinks into a whirlwind of tension that leads him to struggle to meet the man he works for.

Sabri (72) dreams of taking a photo with a politician. With his nephew Ahmet’s (38) help, it happens but the photo never arrives. When the meeting video goes viral, Ahmet’s quiet life unravels under political rumors.