Aylin

Between the unexpected death of her closest friend in Paris and a shattered, sibylline Ottoman painting in Istanbul; a young fine art conservator tries to navigate through her mid-twenties.

Instead of enjoying her vacations in a peaceful peninsula of Turkey, Anna feels stuck in a strange torpor, while her boyfriend, Thomas, doesn't seem to notice it at all. Later in the afternoon, when a little girl suddenly disappears on the beach, Anna awakens and decides to go and find her, despite the unknown and the nightfall.

A murder investigation is flipped inside out in Burak Çevik's second feature, a spellbinding and surprising work that questions whether we can ever truly understand criminal motives. We begin in the present as an unseen narrator recounts the assassination of his lover's disapproving mother, accompanied by hauntingly vacant images of urban alienation and garish city lights; we then flash back to witness the first encounter between the lovers-turned-accomplices, their mutual attraction and world-weariness emerging across a sleepless night and morning after. Çevik imbues the proceedings with a stylistic confidence and willingness to bend the conventions of cinematic form to arrive at a complex, gripping double meditation on love and death.

A coming storm after dog days dawns during a road trip to an island for a funeral. The deceased is buried in haste and a man makes a detour through Aegean Turkey. The funeral is eclipsed by a last wish.

Hit me Baby chronicles a week in the life of Hatice, a female boxer, right before she attends the national tryouts. As a lower class woman without a college degree and any qualifications Hatice has only two options: either succeed in sports or get married. However, all her efforts and drive take a big hit after she loses her match-up. Even though Hatice tries to climb up to success, there comes a point where she can no longer resist the people around her who are always trying to bring her down and slowly starts turning into the woman they always expected her to be.