Baris Atay

Lack is a story that originates after the 1980 military coup, during the years when the hunt for revolutionaries was most prevalent, and continues today. Pregnant Melek's husband is killed by torture. Although she has just given birth, she is kicked out of the house by her father-in-law, who keeps her older son Deniz. After 30 years pass, he turns to his mother and brother who he hasn't seen ever since. Now he will have the answers to all his questions. But, the truth has a price.

In a school where everyone has no hope for the students and where drugs and gangs rule, a new teacher is appointed who believes he can change everything. (imdb)

An ordinary day in the mega-city of Istanbul: Ten-year-old Cemo sells paper tissues in the streets, Hayat is controlled by her husband and transsexual Ebru sells her body. All three have a secret love and they do everything to satisfy their longing, if only for a moment. An authentic, delicate and unsettling story about love and death and the Turkish society at the beginning of the 21st century. (imdb)

After the military coup of 1980, the iconic film director escaped from prison and went to France. He wanted to make a project with other exiled people to recreate their prison lives. Through re-enactments, Ballad of Exiles Yılmaz Güney chronicles the production of Duvar, Güney's political battles, and lives he affected through his cinema. (İKSV)

In Turkey a man is jailed and thrown into a section for those accused or convicted of serious sex crimes, known as the Groom's Block, where society hides from itself as men judge guilt and lash out justice daily.

A man and a woman embark on a long and difficult journey to leave war and famine behind and find a new home, but they find themselves stuck in the world of two brothers who share a big dark secret