Gardens Petrified

In the early morning following a night shaken by citywide protests, Ali, a man in his twenties, is awakened by police sirens and forced to act as a “Hazirun” during a search of a neighboring apartment. Drawn into the process with no ability to intervene-valued only for his presence, signature, and silence-Ali becomes trapped in a gray zone between law, authority, and conscience, as events spiral out of control and irreversibly fracture his everyday life.

Sema and Uğur’s wedding organization will be handled by their closest friends and also their maid of honor and best man, Ela and Doruk. Although there is an immediate attraction between them when they first meet, Ela refuses to work with Doruk. Doruk takes this personally, and a fierce rivalry begins between the two. While Doruk tries to sabotage the plans Ela prepares for the bride, Ela does not hesitate to undermine the arrangements Doruk makes for the groom.

A year after his father’s death, Bahadir, a struggling artist living in Istanbul returns to the small village he grew up in to oversee the weeklong grape harvest. But what he finds is a region at grips with climate change, on the brink of abandonment, and a looming decision to make: part with his family’s heritage or fight to salvage it.