Tayfun Pirselimoglu

Tayfun Pirselimoglu
Country: Turkey
Total Credits at Criticker: 8 (Director), 9 (Writer)
Biography submitted by ehk2 and picture by St. Berna
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Hiçbiryerde
Şükran, is a lady at her forties, working in the central train station in İstanbul. She is fond of his only son Veysel who is working in a small workshop in out skirt of the city. Şükran is always in great tender for his son because she suffered a lot of his husband's political dealings in the past. She brought Veysel up, with great efforts to keep him away any political influences,after the death of his Kurdish husband... (hicbiryerde.com)
Riza
Riza's truck has broken down in Istanbul. He has to work to pay his debts but he has no money for the cost of repairing the crankshaft. Holed up in a miserable hostel, we suddenly see him living as if in a third world country rather than a thriving metropolis. Other residents are similarly trapped in a life from which they desperately need an exit. (imdb comments)
Iz
A man, Cezmi is found to be dead shot from his face. Although police closes the case considering that it's a suicide, detective Kemal insists on investigating how Cezmi is died. He starts the way to find a picture of Cezmi since his face is unrecognizable. (imdb user review)
Saç
Hamdi lives alone and works as a wigmaker in Tarlabasi in central Istanbul. All he has to his name is an old jaloppy of a car. He spends his days and nights in his shop which is also his home, watching the cars go by and the prostitute working her beat across the street. He knows he has terminal cancer and his only wish is to travel somewhere outside of Turkey before he dies. (aksav.org.tr)
Pus
Reşat, a withdrawn and asocial young man who works at a pirate DVD shop, represses his feelings for the girl next door, and adds excitement to his life with petty theft. The film turns into a thriller when the shadowy Celal, a friend of Reşat`s boss, gets shot just after he leaves a package in the shop and Reşat has to make sense of the photo and the gun it contains. (altcine.com)
I Am Not Him
Tayfun Pirselimoğlu's latest follows a man who is struggling to change his identity. Middle-aged unmarried loner Nihat works in a hospital canteen. When young colleague Ayşe, after obvious advances, invites him home for dinner, he hesitatingly accepts. When Nihat sees a wedding photograph, he notices a quiet unexpected fact. The awkward relationship that ensues changes Nihat's life more profoundly than he could ever have foreseen. (iksv.org)
Yol Kenarı
Screwy signs indicate the arrival of the doomsday. The people of a small town find themselves on the edge of insanity, thinking the Antichrist is already around. But who is Christ, then? A poor guy with a sacred mark on his back working in a coffee shop? The residents of a small town set between a stormy sea and an ominous forest are becoming insane because of several fearful indications of the doomsday. (imdb)
Yeni Bir Yıldız
Turkish version of ''A Star Is Born''
Kerr
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. (imdb)