Mustafa Kirantepe

A story of a couple of youngsters in turkish city İzmir, Bornova, after the political changes of 1980 in Turkey.

Stories of Turkish people living in three European cities Madrid, Paris, and Berlin. Most are illegal immigrants, and while seeking for permits or living in hide outs they go through life dealing with humiliation, insecurities, betrayals, self-pity. The stories reflect the schizophrenic nature of the immigrant world, which turns the movie into something more than life in Europe (imdb)

The film follows Selman Bulut, the Imam, who is the official at a mosque where a murder is committed. Finding the police not interested in the case as should be, the Imam takes the initiative to solve the mystery. His methods prove to be as extraordinary as himself! It turns out that the Imam and all the people around him are somehow related to this murder. Secrets kept for many years, lies, the money-lender's cash, a hungry dog and love are all part of the film. (iksv.org)

A Turkish taxi driver tells stories which are almost unbelievable.

A dangerous neighborhood, "The Pit", ran by a noble mafia family called Koçovars. When the family is in the danger of losing the control of The Pit, their youngest son now must come back to his home, where he could never escape from.

The biography of Turkish weight lifter, champion of olympics Naim Suleymanoglu ... (imdb)

Called for a job interview, four candidates go through a dark, mysterious, brutal test to get the job.

One day waves bring a wooden statue of Lenin to a small town by the Black Sea. The statue is erected in the town square by the Municipality with the hope that it would attract tourists to the town. As an official opening ceremony is planned with the participation of the Prime Minister and a Russian delegation, the statue gets stolen. Two police investigators from Ankara are assigned to find Lenin in twelve hours. Townspeople give an unexpected answer to the question «Where is Lenin?».

When a serial killer stalks a Romani neighborhood, a hardboiled police captain teams up with a Gypsy crime boss to bring the killer to justice. (imdb)

Hüseyin, a family man, is forced to share a bed with his brother-in-law Firat, who happens to be staying overnight in their apartment. The weather is unbearably hot and Hüseyin's "longest night" begins.