Bilal Bulut

It is the early 1990s, and a handful of journalists are trying to attract the world's attention to the ongoing human rights abuses in Diyarbakır. Eighteen-year-old Nazım opens up and cleans the newspaper office everyday, and helps with distribution. While researching the disappearance of five villagers, journalist Hafız discovers the traces of a paramilitary gang. (aksav.org.tr)

80-year-old Şeristan lives an ordinary life in a shanty in Istanbul with her son Mirza, and her grandchildren. One morning, following a nightmare, Şeristan, her son Mirza and her grandchild Hevi, set on a journey to Batman, from where they were forced to leave 20 years ago. All the facts of Şeristan's life, which she pursued as a secret, are revealed during this trip. Mirza's biggest challenge is to live up to his promise she gave to his mother. (iksv.org)

Doctor Pinar, brought up in a humble middle-class urban family, works as attending physician at Eskisehir Public Hospital. One night, with the official assignment by the head physician of the hospital, Doktor Pinar finds herself in a military jeep going to the city prison. What she experiences at that night and in the following day cause her to change all her pre-set notions (and all the relations she thinks that are set naturally) with life and society. (altinportakal.org.tr)

Being surrounded by the obscure political events in the 1990s in Turkey as a child, Mirza cannot escape from being a victim of the ever going-on devastating events. Overwhelmed by a profound sense of misery especially following his mother's death, young Mirza becomes apathetic and introverted, frequently struggling with nightmares. However, his life changes upon arrival of a guest called Mir Ahmed. (film.iksv.org)