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Featuring seven different yet intertwined stories of modern life in Istanbul, 7 Faces is a thought-provoking drama centering on seven characters living in the same city apartment building. Each of them faces a major change in their lives, which requires them to confront their biggest fear or weakness.

An unexpected reunion between a traveling musician and his son opens old wounds as the two set out on a long journey to a troubadour festival.

Saffet(32), a veteran supermarket employee, lives in constant fear of losing his job as rumors circulate about an audit. The audit, aided by Mystery Shoppers, targets declining sales of the Supermarket. Saffet's paranoia grows, perceiving every customer as a potential threat. Saffet spirals deeper into a whirlpool of anxiety and uncertainty.

An eternal landscape from the Yesilcam.

Cevat is a 28-year-old professional chef from Mengen. He works as a chef at a famous Italian restaurant in Istanbul. One night, Cevat dreams of his deceased father, Ekrem. It is the first time he has seen his father in a dream since his death. Ekrem tells Cevat that Galatasaray will win the championship if Cevat takes his two closest friends, Hakkı and Yılmaz, to Bolu for a barbecue.

Kara works in the «Goldfish» eatery all day long washing dishes. Her life has become a closed circle of grey days far from the colors of the big city. Every day she walks home alone at night. She saves money for family. But one night an unexpected incident changes her daily routine.

Having recently returned from compulsory military service, Emrah, who lives with his mother, refuses to socialise, and strolls alone on highways. He hides two letters in a drawer: one that he has written when he was in the army to his former lover, Sevgi, and another that he has found by the side of the dead body of a guerrilla whose life he has taken. Following the address on the letter, Emrah reaches the house of Zeynep, the guerrilla’s lover, and leaves the letter there. But this will not relieve his nightmares. With the help of his uncle, he finds a job as a night watch. Forced to spend the whole night in a small room, Emrah will go through troubled times and the nightmares will become all the worse leading into ever more confusion.

A lot of words have been said on women-men equality for many centuries. However there is a situation people don’t realize even though they know it very well.

While fathers usually guide their sons through life crises, things go the other way around in this independent comedy-drama from Turkey. Adnan (Reha Özcan) has been a widower for nearly five years, but he acts as if his wife passed only a few weeks ago; he's been trapped in a deep funk for years and has become emotionally unavailable to his teenage son Burak (Kamer Celenk). Adnan doesn't fare much better with the rest of the world, and a long series of screw-ups leads to him losing his job as a parking lot attendant and being named in a lawsuit. While Burak has already moved out of the house and is living with sympathetic relatives, he decides he needs his father back and sets out to free Adnan from his doldrums, though that's more easily said than done