Festival Films
Special Screening
Natura Urbana
The Brachen of Berlin are unique. Emerging from war-time destruction, economic malaise, and geo-political division, these ostensibly empty sites evolved into laboratories for botanists, artist
Nimic
A professional cellist has an encounter with a stranger on the subway which has unexpected and far-reaching ramifications on his life.
International Short Film Competition
About The Fire On Rabbi Nissim Street
Yehuda's house burned down. An absurd ticket demanding to pay the fire service, sends the boy to the fire station to fight it.
Armstrong
Mel builds sculptures of her crisps-obsessed crush. When the moon vanishes before her eyes, she must find a way to save the world before it crumbles into tiny pieces.
Battlefield
Inspired by the quote of Austrian Expressionist, Oskar Kokoschka: „ Weeds are nature ́s opposition to the governance of gardeners“, BATTLEFIELD shows the inner life of a military base as
Bear With Me
A short animated documentary on immigrants who left their home and crossed borders for love.
Bitten
Zofia is spending summer holidays in a holistic centre. It is supposed to be a purifying week. Suddenly, a man from her past appears in the hotel. Zofia recognizes his face, but he acts like h
Broccoli
Maurice & Julienne are expecting their first child. But the day of the delivery, Julienne gives birth to a broccoli.
Cell 364
A former Stasi prisoner revisits his cell.
Da Yie
A foreigner in Ghana gets an assignment from his gang to find kids for a risky job that will take place later that evening. While spending the day with two energetic children, Prince and Matil
Delphine
Delphine, a caustic portrait of power dynamics in our society, describes the journey of a young Lebanese girl who, in her own way, rises up against the intimidation she was subjected to as a c
Die Waschmaschine
“No guarantee. No delivery.” Simon and Lea, a young couple, need to get rid of their broken washing machine. Instead of bringing it to the dump, they decide to sell it online. Hassan repli
Do You Want to Break the Egg?
If we phrase the flesh or the body we depends on, that make all the contact to the world, as egg white; then how would we be able to form our soul inside, profoundly, to represent the egg yolk
Dogwatch
After losing his lifelong position at an industrial corporation, Raphael is forced by the Austrian Unemployment Office to take an underwhelming job as a night-time security guard. He recently
Eeny Meeny
It all starts with an accident. Little Paula pushes her sister Annas hamster out of the window while trying to feed it. She desperately wants to bring it back to life with spells and magic. Me
Emerge
Mother and daughter are immersed in an absurd and animal everyday. She is altered by another body awakening the drive of desire never before found, charged with eroticism, it will take its lim
Emma
Ethereality
Stranded in space for thirty years. How does it feel to finally come home? A reflection about migration and the sense of belonging.
It will be released at 22:00 on Saturday night,
Everything Bagel
Following a devastating breakup and subsequent musical stagnation, a record store employee searches for a path forward in the days leading up to one of her band Everything Bagel's shows.
Ferine
Ferine is a contemporary horror drama about borders of human nature which reflects how willing we are to compromise and to accept our inner monster. Starring Anna Della Rosa (The Great Beauty)
Freed
Issa, 20 years old, is about to get out from jail, when he meets Gaetan a young inmate who has not served his sentence yet...
It will be released at 22:00 on Thursday night, Decemb
Gaïa
Daphné, her dog and the whole family are gathered together to spend Christmas in the countryside.
Give It Back!
Olivia just moved to Israel from New York. Throughout her first day of school in the 6th grade she tries to survive, navigating through the new country she just landed in, her new school and n
Henet Ward
Halima, a Sudanese henna painter goes to Basma's, a young Egyptian bride to prepare her for her wedding: under the eyes of her daughter Ward, the encounter between the two women grows from com
How to Disappear
Is it possible to desert in a shooter game? Along this question, "How to Disappear" reflects on war and game, discipline and disobedience. For the history of defiance is as old as the history
I'll End Up in Jail
A stay-at-home mom gets into a murderous car crash where nobody wants to take the blame.
I'm Calling Your Father
When 16-year-old Damjan gets jumped by neighborhood hooligans, his hardheaded mother comes up with a plan to protect him. Partly a satire on privilege, and part family melodrama, "I'm Calling
It's Nothing
Recent graduate, Robin, returns to her parents’ house and obsessively starts to dig a hole, encouraged by an impossibly perfect girl; but as she digs, she heads further down a path of self-d
Jarvik
As the summer is coming to an end, Léa needs to breath but her brother's mechanical heart constantly reminds her that life hangs by a thread.
La Vendedora de Lirios
Jacinta and her granddaughter Indira are Bolivian migrants. During the spring they work collecting flowers on the coast of the river, which they then sell in the cemetery of the town of Magdal
Life Between the Exit Signs
A young man is standing in a hospital room inhabited by his mentally ill mother. She is asleep and instead of waking her, he leaves the room. In search for distraction he drifts through day an
Mahi, Angel Of Waters
"MAHI" is the name of a girl who works in a fish farming complex and has been called a fish for many years because she suffers from hyperhidrosis and her hands are constantly wet. One day, MAH
Nina
A 13-year-old Nina is feeling trapped in her relation with the bossy Vassil, who is preparing her to be a skilled pickpocket in Spain. There are days when she is almost ready to run away from
Noa
Noa is a lonely single mother looking for a job. She hopes Yair, a family man and the vice president of a successful company, could help. But sometimes Interests turn into feelings.
November 1st
Traveling to witness the execution of her son’s murder, a mother is torn between retaliation and reconnecting with her estranged daughter.
Of The Wild Black Dog
Of the wild black dog is a self-portrait based on several dreams, filmed in Syria and Germany with a super 8mm camera.
Paola Makes a Wish
On an ordinary day at work, Paola starts to feel that she is missing out something exciting in her life.
Pearl Diver
Three couples are facing different challenges: A middle aged hedgehog falls in love with a balloon, but finds it difficult to maintain his grooming routine. A couple of arctic lovers are exper
Q: Ghostly Remote Effect
In the future. A hi-tech-lab. Scientist P is testing quantum-gynoid Q and sets off on a mission to an undiscovered nature. On the journey she discovers a ghostly remote effect between herself
Raya
The nine-year old Raya and her family are supposed to evacuate their home. However, Raya believes there always exists a solution for anything.
Shiny Happy People
Manu lives in a dictatorship of happiness, a world of constant well-being, where sadness is strictly prohibited. But his heart has been broken, and acting happy is becoming increasingly compli
Sin Cielo
Young boy in a Mexican border town hustles any way he can to help his family but learns some very cruel realities when the girl he likes gets 'disappeared'. Based on trues stories from La Fron
So We Live
A family living in a war torn country spends what seems to be a normal evening together. Their conversations shift between casual matters of daily life and survival. This ambiguous situation h
Sororal
Three sisters are facing an impending disaster: the imminent flooding by the Sea of the lands where they live. In the midst of such chaos, the sisterly union is shaken up and each of the siste
Sprinkles
Julianne, a 17-year-old girl, decides to take a pregnancy test while she’s babysitting Charlotte. The 7-year-old child interrupts Julianne before she can see the result and draws her into he
Sticker
After an unsuccessful attempt to renew his car registration, Dejan falls in a bureaucratic trap that tests his determination to be a responsible father.
Streets of Lagos
Shot on location in West Africa, 'Streets of Lagos' provides a rare insight into the lives of Nigeria’s first generation of rollerbladers. What was once a niche sport that saw widespread par
Stuff
When there is a break-in in her home, interior buyer Helen is in shock. She secretly mourns for her lost belongings with which she had intimate relationships. With this theft, she discovers th
Take
Young director Timmu wants the scene shot exactly like he envisions, but it seems that nobody can understand him. His unusual measures and weirdly personal comments to the lead actor results i
The Fantastic
The Fantastic is a film about imagination and encountering the unknown.
North Korean exiles describe their experiences of watching forbidden foreign films. What did they imagine the worl
Up At Night
Three separate screens make us discover the resilience of a population that reinvents light, in front of an invisible government.
Staging period has ended
Visceral
Josefina lives trapped in a relationship, hiding her true wishes from her husband. However, an afternoon, in the company of a couple of strangers, the monster inside her will come to light in
National Short Film Competition
Ablam
Elif is ten years old, her sister Ayşe is 13. It’s a sticky summer in mid-1980’s, Istanbul. They live in a neighbourhood of lower middle class families. Elif freely plays on the street wi
Anı
This film is about an old woman Türkan, meeting with one of her oldest friends years later. Türkan comes to the hospital with her daughter and she meets Nermin by chance. While they were hav
Anı
A woman tries to remember her forgotten memories by going through old photographs. As she goes deep into her memories, she gets even more confused about her past.
Anoush
Anush, a little girl, goes to borrow a wedding dress from a distant relative for her brother's wedding. Leyla, a teacher, comes home as a second intruder. Leyla has just been appointed to the
Binbir Gece
Seyithan (12) living in a Kurdish Village in Eastern Turkey meets the tales of The Thousand and One Nights and seeks a way to find missing parts given by the school teacher to his classmates.<
Bir Nehir Kıyısında
While a civilian group with a woman who is about to give birth were running away from Serbian genocide to the safe zone with a sizzling radio in their bag, with the dog barking they heard, the
Boğulmanın Adabı
One morning seven apartment residents crowd into a four-person elevator due to different reasons. While they were complaining about the building manager Miss Bahtiyar, suddenly the elevator br
Çamaşır Suyu
Sibel (30), a lady with her baby in the stroller tries to earn money with stair cleaning, faces eviction for rent arrears. She tries to reach her husband Yılmaz, who working at a landfill, to
Çerçeve
In a modern art museum, a painting brought for display is mistakenly hanged by the museum staff. End of day, museum staff notices her mistake and corrects the frame. But the visitors who come
Donuk Bakışlar
Twin brothers, Tayfun and Taykan, live at a retirement home although they are in their early forties. They are both passionately committed to music. Having named their music band “Glassy Sta
Düğün Fotoğrafı
Reyhan's dream is to take a photo with her wedding dress. She goes to the photography studio, her wedding dress is taken in a hurry, but Reyhan does not make her voice for her dream. Her fathe
Dur Bak Dinle Geç
One driver (Bekir) and two inspectors (Selim and Cagri) are driving to a firm to inspect. Bekir’s charger is half-working and he asks Cagri to get one from the firm they’re ahead. Selim he
En İyi Kadın Oyuncu
Melis, a post-graduate student meets with a 70’s erotic movie star to write a thesis on her career and the period. As Melis keeps interviewing her, she realizes this former star Alev Hanzade
Esinti
Eşi ve dört kızı ile köyde yaşayan Mehmet, hamile olan eşi düşük yaptıktan sonra aile bağlarında bir sarsıntı yaşar ve bu da bir farkındalık ile sonuçlanır.
Göremediğimiz Tüm Işıklar
The story of a father who becomes his own son’s prey on a hunting trip out of the city.
HAD
Ufuk and Omer are 10-11 years old brothers who is living in a territory near to the border with their mother and father. One day, they see a TV show about fishing and Omer wanted to go fishing
HEADSHOT
The man is a murderer who kills people in exchange for The Water Of Life given to him. He takes photos of the certain people, at certain place and time, and steals the people’s lives he phot
İklim Değişimi
Iklim moves from İstanbul to London in hopes of a better future, but starts having adaptation issues.
İyi Yemek Öldürür
Chef Arthur, who is very sensitive to nature, is entertaining an important jury for dinner. Arthur who does yoga and kisses his flowers every morning turns into another character when he puts
Kara Kutu
Selin (11) is a young violinist who is preparing for her final exams as she tries to survive in İstanbul's chaotic atmosphere by herself. The burden of keeping her secret at home gets harder
Kara Kutu Masalı
Aslı is an actress who is working hard for her next role Iphigenia. One day she goes for a “shoe commercial” audition but agency workers won’t let her finish the act. She steals the sho
Madun
Serhad works with a man who illegally makes black people selling watches. He falls in love with a black woman who has come to the country illegally, but it is not becoming well as expected...<
Münhasır
Fazilet remained all alone after the death of her young daughter who was ill since a long time. While trying to cope with the feeling of death, she will find herself in a difficult pursuit aft
Paydos
Zeliha, mother of two children, is a poor laborer who works in a steel saucepan factory. One day, she is fired as an unexpected moment. While she is attempting to find new job, she also search
Şahsi Kanaat
Two policemen who have been working together for many years decide to steal by taking a tip from a thief. They become prisoners of the power struggle that develops with wrong opinions in the h
Sarı, Siyam, Kanocular ve Ev Sahibi
The Host is a woman living alone in the middle of a vast land. The visitors that she has long waited for finally arrive in the small hours of the morning. They mingle with the Host's life, bot
ŞEMS
A documentary about a man who has established himself as a Uzbek dog walker in the Cihangir, where the intellectual people have lived in the heart of İstanbul, for 10 years.
Son
A man lives inside a large billboard on the edge of a crowded, dirty, busy city. Every morning, he goes to the city with his van carrying a large tree in back of his van. Planting and growing
Uzun Bir Hikâye
With the end of the "Peace Process" in 2015, I witnessed the clash between the PKK and the Government forces in the Sur district of Diyarbakır. I was a freelance journalist at that time, witn
Veger
Eyüp follows the mind of a madman and crosses Mount Ararat in search of his aunt in Erivan. The aunt still waits for someone to come through this mountain for years, just like Eyüp. Eyüp ca
Yağmur, Şnorkel ve Taze Fasulye
It is just an ordinary day after thirty-two years. The son confronts the father with all his courage and tells him that he will not live with him anymore but will leave the house. His bag is o
National Student Film Competition
Asit Yağmuru
The balance of a man who lives in the middle of nowhere and depends on his daily work to continue his life, can easily turn upside down.
Bekçi
Kamil earns his life as a keeper at a seaside place with his family. It is apparent that a tough and quiet winter is waiting for them as the people start leaving their summer houses and get re
Çıtırtı
On the basis of the shops where the brothers, who have abnormal (!) characters, called Taşkın and Metin, give carpet cleaning services in Ankara under the name of Emotional Carpet Washing, t
DEDE
Dede (name, mean also “Grandfather” in Turkish) Çolak is a shepherd in Aladağ district of Adana. Because of the high number of child deaths in the village, the families went to shrine an
Derinlik Algısı
Ferhan is a young and successful woman swimmer who wants to break national record on upcoming races but that record belongs to her mother and Ferhan’s mother’s increasing health issues mak
Fermuar Ucu
Asya works in a clothing store and takes care of her mother and her little brother. She needs a new coat in cold weather of the winter. However, she can't put enough money together.
İnziva
Yılmaz is living alone in a tent for 33 years. The reason of why Yılmaz living alone for all this time is explained by his past life and his current life.
İris
Biographical trans documentary film in which Iris Mozalar, a young artist, shares her diversity of being a bisexual transgender woman, the process of creating herself and her reflections again
Kayıp Gözler Zamanı
Erdal has been in jail for two years because of human trafficking. One of the days when Erdal went to see for sales he sees the refugee on the road who he knew from his period of smuggling. Er
Kış
Imprisonment raises children early. Although their age progresses slowly, their mind or heart grows fast enough to be worth an adult. This documentary is about the world of a little boy whose
Koşar Adım
Omar is a young man who started to work in a yellow taxi. In order to get rid of his financial problems, he returns to gambling where he used to be. He loses money in gambling that does not be
Perdeler
Serap(30), who was lived with parents for a while as a result of the problems she experienced with her husband, returns home as a result of an incident that happened to her husband. Hoping to
Son Akşam Yemeği
The numbness and desensitization, which strengthens its place in human nature day by day, has become an undeniable fact of a pizza courier working in a pizzeria. Since the first day he did thi
Sonraki Durak; Estonya
When the civil war in Syria spread to Aleppo, Adel was only 12 years old. His family first decides to leave the city where they lived, and then the country. For 4 years following this process,
Tülütabaklar
Tulutabaks, who entered the homeland under difficult conditions during the liberation war, became the fearful dream of the Greek soldiers who occupied Balıkesir. Taking advantage of the darkn
Vaveyla
Delil and his wife Asya, live in a small village. Their son, Azad has a heavy convulse against the morning. There is heavy snowfall outside. So the roads are closed. Delil and his brother Lezg
Yangın
It's a short documentary of a French student Laura who tells her feelings and connection between her and her country through the Notre Dame fire which happened when she was away from her count
Ziyafet
At the beginning of his twenties, Ahmet has a timid structure and tries to avoid communicating with people. One night, all the basic regularity of Ahmet will be destroyed with the scream comes
Zor Zamanlar
A short observational documentary film focuses on daily life during coronavirus pandemic in a small Anatolian city of Burdur.
Alternative Sounds: Iranian New Wave
Animal
A man who wants to pass the border, disguises himself as a ram.
CafeKa
A. has received a new murder order after years, arranges to meet the case in a cafe called “Cafe Ka”…
Cleaner
A public toilet cleaner is concerned about her pregnancy test on a normal day of her work.
Reverence
Ranaa, an actress, who has started a love affair with her co-actor, Bahram, under the influence of the theme of the play they are playing in (The Blood Wedding), decides to stay in the sphere
S
It has been an hour there is no news from the father in the woods. Wife calls the police. The police talks to the little boy about his father’s disappearance, little by little the talk turns
The White Tree
“He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.”
The Wolves
On a wintery night, a young man along with his two nephews were going sightseeing in the vicinity of a small town. The uncle had given the children his promise to show them wolves. On the path
Vision of a Director :Filmography of Can Eren
AHNECTHA Sessiz Oda
Ahnechta is kept in her house isolated from the outer world by the system although she resists to the reality in which she is living and she misses her life before the apocalypse. She loses he
BAYDARA Edra'nın Kaderi
Edra is a cheerful elevator boy living with his mother who is obsessed with his son. One day, he stucked in the elevator with a grumpy, old woman who shouted at him that leads Edra to lose his
Benim, Yalnızlık Aleti
Hasan Ali spends his entire life at his home together with mechanical gadgets such as a simulator that is expected to erase the feeling of loneliness. The trouble Hasan Ali experienced in the
Biz İnsan mıyız?
Are We Human? urges thinking about "design" and does this by questioning the basic claim of existence based on ritualism of the being living in a systematic order.
ÇABA Pala'nın Yolu
Pala is collecting the garbage of Kurtuluş, one of multicultural neighbourhoods of İstanbul, with the purpose of recycling. Endeavor "The Way of Pala" is a film about the relationship of him
Cervel-i İstanbul
With its 5.000 years history, Istanbul is one of the most mystical cities in the world. For instance, you can see an old fountain that is ‘protected’ in accordance with the potentials but
KOD 34
Film starts a distopic portrait of İstanbul. A cultural journey to the history of the city starts as one of the archeologists among a research group found an object.
Matador
Matador is preparing to attend his ex-girlfriend's wedding. He comes to the wedding place early with a bunch of roses. The ceremony starts but Matador can't find the courage to present himself
Mavi Kalpli Kadın
The beautiful Blue Hearted Woman lives with the dream of being rich one day that eventually lead her to be neck-deep debt. One day, while she is searching for food, two men appears and make he
Origin of Flux
A video project about the pre-action feeling condensation that triggers the movement, the flux, the homeward.
Cinema Cures: Filmography of Eli Salameh
Aryan
Set in 1942, a woman tries to create a perfect pure race child to please Hitler…
Exit Beirut
Even the rarest of connections can seldom define a person's life. When your heart is somewhere else, you will always live a paradox... This is a story of a special connection between Angela an
Fly My Love (Vole Mon Amour)
A mother and her son enter a tunnel... Its lights take us on an adventure where we understand the complex relationship between them both... A decision must be taken...
The Boy Who Wore The Sun (Soleil Mon Amour)
David, a 21-year-old guy who wears a scoliosis plastic corset, hides a shameful circular scar on his stomach. One night, before one month of his skin graft surgery, he's put in an uncomfortabl
Why Did Our Jury Become a Jury ?
Ah Bir Ataş Ver
The Dumlupinar Submarine collides with a Swedish ship while cruising on the Dardanelles. It sinks into depths of the sea within seconds. The soldiers trapped inside the submarine wait for days
Barisfer
Canadian visual artist Philippe Van Eetvelt goes to Turkey to produce an artwork for Sinop Biennial, Sinopale. While he was there, the 15th July Coup Attempt occurs and Sinopale is postponed u
Delirium
The story has about a suffocation city. That everyone opposes dictatorship, the smallest punishment is the cutting of the ear. In a rainy night, a man finds an ear on the ground…
Dönüş
The story telling the journey of the 3rd and 5th generation women from a family who had to leave the country because of the population exchange between Turkey and Greece. Will they be able to
Figurant
A man follows a group of workers coming for daywork in an industrial area. Soon, he's stripped from his clothes and identity, dressed in a military uniform and armed. His determination not to
Kulak Misafiri
Selamet, who is working at the old central of a company which is on the eve of moving to a big centre, waits for the time when his transfer will take place and he spends his days listening to
Yasemin Adında Bir Salon Bitkisi
At the funeral of her uncles, Yasemin hits the comforting lie they cherish on her sister’s face: She knows she will not recover, so she will stop treatment and not torture herself any longer
Zigzag
Combining the art of animation with real footage and traditional Turkish art form water marbling, ZigZag tells the story of a Muslim woman who got stuck in the middle of the sea at a mixed-gen