Sawdust Tales

Five short stories based on 'Love' and 'Tolerance' themes. Each of the short films moves along their own lines and ultimately converges in the concepts of love and tolerance.

Summer Love is a 2001 Turkish drama film directed and written by Barış Pirhasan with Gül Dirican.

From defecting to the Olympics, an underdog weightlifter powers through adversity to raise up his community in this biopic of Naim Süleymanoğlu.

Serap is a successful theater actress. Although she rejects the traditional roles assigned to women in her personal life, she agrees to play the role of a traditional housewife in a shampoo commercial. However, she is unaware that this commercial will turn into her worst nightmare.

In the last years of the Ottoman Empire, a poor little Anatolian town named Saripinar is hit by a minor earthquake which has neither destroyed nor left it with many casualties. However, a telegraph sent to the central government exaggerates the situation and mentions that the governor of the town has been severely wounded, making the event a nationwide matter.

The story of a provincial woman named Vasfiye, whose life passed changing hands and drifting between men in Aegean towns, is told by different narrators. The story changes every time the narrator changes. However, it is not known which story is the truth.

Nine stories of resistance against solitary confinement of political prisoners in Turkey.

Işık visits a friend's summer home to spend some time alone after growing up under the strain of her surroundings and family. Here, she reflects on her prior issues and the challenges she has encountered as a woman.

After receiving a letter from a woman named Asiye asking for help to save her, the President of the Associations Against Prostitution visits the brothel to save Asiye. However, she finds herself in a strange musical show.

Meral is a divorced mother living with her six-year-old daughter Elif. One day, Elif disappears. Despite all efforts to search for her, she in not found. Meral’s former husband and lawyer Turgay take part in the search. During their investigation, Meral and Turgay become clo ser. A love relationship starts between these two loners.

Meet Vartanus who has devoted her life to her bedridden father; Goncagul who realizes that her Mafioso lover will never marry her. Gulnur who's resigned herself to daily beatings as long as her husband doesn't touch the kids, Tulay who's shattered every time her mother gets beaten; hairdresser Fusun who tends to see things on the bright side. These are the women who transport Eylem, each other and perhaps every woman in the country to Last Stop: Kurtulus. The heroines adopt one unwavering principle: to oppose all forms of violence! A dark comedy that's rose-tinted, provocative and fantastic...

Imam Hasan, his wife Hacer and his daughter Fatma arrive at Karaağaçlı, a small railway town in the middle of the Anatolian wilderness. Besides carrying out the duties of the imam, Hasan will be teaching religion to the children of the town during the holy month of Ramadan. His unusual behavior towards his wife and little daughter arrests the attention of the townsfolk. Meanwhile Adem, the son of the stationmaster who is crazy for trains begins to learn about and get into a world he has never heard of before in the lessons given by Hasan: trains, sin, good deeds, heaven and hell.. everything gets jumbled. Condemned of being harsh and merciless towards his family, Hasan one day finds himself obliged to reveal the "secret" about himself and his family and this changes everything in the eyes of people. Yet there has remained another secret of which anyone, even Hasan is hardly aware. The people of the town, including Adem, will remember this Ramadan throughout their lives.

The film tells the story of Hasan, a truck driver. Hasan returns to Turkey from Germany after many years. On his return, he finds out that his ex-girlfriend Sabahat and his best friend Yavuz are married. Yavuz is involved in illegal business causing his family to get mixed up.

Feryal and her husband Sinan have one rule in their relationship. They can have any relationship they want, but they must be honest about it. In a way, this is much more difficult than simply being faithful in marriage.

An alien is stranded on earth and eventually befriends a young boy during his quest to return to his home planet. Badi is a Turkish remake of Steven Spielberg's E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial.