Hasan is a taxi driver working the night shift. On the early-morning drive home, he sees a woman passing in high heels. Fascinated by her appearance, he does something that leads to disaster in a world where the boundaries of masculinity are clearly drawn.Read More »
Another fantastic Süha Arın documentary, lovingly in-depth, about various types of ancient craftsmanship that are dying out in the modern world. It’s an episode from the series Old Houses, Old Masters. As the title indicates, this is all about wood, from construction to grave markers to prayer beads to violins.Read More »
Belma’s self-confidence gets damaged when the doctor she went to for her skin rash problem tells her that she should get botox. She becomes a woman who is uncomfortable with her skin and gets botox but things do not go as she expected.Read More »
In a high-crime area of Istanbul called Laleli, a pimp and his two friends try to sell a blond Russian prostitute as a “virgin” to a rich businessman. However, they lose both the down payment and the girl to four thugs who appear from nowhere. – MUBIRead More »
Hakan and Nihal seems to have a perfect marriage. The problems of the young architect couple are started to emerge when Nihal suddenly disappears. While looking for his wife with the police, Hakan faces the facts of their relationship.Read More »
Vural’s life is the epitome of mundanity. He performs his duties as a father to a young boy, a husband, and a caring son to his sick father, with whom he runs a photography shop across the American Consulate in Istanbul. Yet, Vural has a secret, a minor transgression of his faith: an affair with Sonay, a young woman who visits his shop for passport pictures she needs in order to apply for a visa to the US. In her emotional distress, she confronts Vural, putting a threat on his uncomplicated living. Vural is faced with a hard choice between to deal with the consequences of this relationship or go down the dark path of dealing with his complete loss of morality.Read More »
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Can witnesses a murder in a small town. The police don’t allow him to leave after his testimony. On the other hand, a quarantine is declared due to rabid dogs. The whole town turns into purgatory with no exit is almost at the edge of insanity.Read More »
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Award-winning director Fatih Akin takes us on a journey through Istanbul, the city that bridges Europe and Asia, and challenges familiar notions of east and west. He looks at the vibrant musical scene which includes traditional Turkish music plus rock and hip-hop.Read More »
The Wedding, which is the second part of Akad’s trilogy, depicts the struggles of a migrant Anatolian family to adapt to and survive in the very different conditions of urban Istanbul, is one of the best presentations of internal migration in Turkish cinema. Akad uses the experiences of a provincial family as his medium for drawing attention to a period of disintegrating feudal relationships and burgeoning proletarianism. And this strikes the kind of political chord that is rarely encountered now in Turkish cinema; an approach that is borne out by the film’s ‘happy ending’. The Wedding is profoundly impressive as a film that explores and comments on the painful period of change sweeping Turkey at the time, but also for its standpoint, a combination of social realism and socialist reality.Read More »