In the Shadows

Selin travels back in time at a summer house and finds herself in her mother's youth, changing her family's fate and rebuilding her own life.

How much space does Zeynep take up in this vast universe? This is a city brimming with the struggling and the unemployed; aren’t their lives a bit like the infinite, tiny particles flying through the air? Zeynep is already trying hard to make ends meet when she gets fired from her job at a textile mill. The Particle follows her as she searches for a job. We follow her in and out of workspaces. Zeynep’s world – the streets and homes in Tarlabaşı – are dark and suffocating.

From an intoxicating fantasy to a dangerous affair, a wealthy married woman finds her life irreversibly shattered after picking up an unpublished novel.

Coastliners puts the theme of “human rights” together with different stories, and consists of five short fiction films made by internationally acclaimed different directors. We accompany the personal effects of refugees washed ashore, the peculiar story of an assaulted young man, a mother and daughter who take refuge in a house when bombs sound on the Syrian border, a hero stuck in the hurly burly of Istanbul, trying to overcome obstacles; and the her spiritual journey of a pregnant woman trying to return to her village from where she was cast away.

Consequent to her rape, Demet (Gassal) gives birth to a baby girl. After all she has been through, she is alienated from everything on the material world. She builds herself a world between her child and her duties against God.

Composer Erdem Helvacıoğlu recorded sounds at three different locations around İstanbul and turned them into compositions. This film documents a journey in pursuit of sounds.