Tomris Giritlioglu

A young law student Behçet (Murat Yıldırım) is torn between his allegiance to a nationalist youth movement, his affection for a communist best friend, his vows to an aristocratic fiance, his fealty to an underworld father-in-law-to-be and his love for a noble-hearted Rum prostitute (Beren Saat). As such, the conflicts and tensions in Behçet's world are a microcosm of the political tensions of Turkey's history since the birth of multi-party democracy in 1950. (Turkish Daily News)

The film is set during the period of the Varlik Vergisi where many non-Muslims were forced to pay higher taxes, often in an arbitrary and unrealistic way. Around two thousand non-Muslims, who could not pay the amount demanded for the tax within the time-limit of thirty days, were arrested and sent to a forced labor camp in Aşkale in the Erzurum Province of eastern Turkey. (imdb)

A man's travels to his past who lacks all kind of emotions especially fear and happiness.

A writer becomes obsessed by the mystery a beautiful young girl in a red dress in this Turkish drama set in the old world Istanbul suburb of Kucuksu toward the end of WWII. It all begins when the woman visits the writer during a summer storm. She flirts with him and the following day he takes her out, thus beginning an odd romance. The woman suffers from terrible nightmares about the suicide of her aunt in her family's burning home. The whole episode may be or not be real.

A story about the dramatical effects of the population exchange between Turkey and Greece and Turkey's military junta era in 80's. An ex-convict, with his wife, comes to an Aegean town and they develop a friendship with an old greek lady, the owner of the hostel where they stay. Five years later, the man comes to the town again but this time, he is alone.

This drama is the story of how a small child's life is transformed by the woman his father loves, a cabaret singer, Anjelique. It opens in 1982, when the child is now on eighty-year old retired diplomat, living on his own with only a cat for company. (imdb)