Yilmaz Erdogan

The story takes place in a small town (called Hakkari) in Turkey at the beginning of the 70's. The time has come to bring technology into that small town. The first Television (or called Visiontele by the citizens) arrives and the chaos begins... (imdb)

Asim Noyan and his gang make up a rambling collective, which concerns itself with a range of criminal activity, running from car theft to fraud. An inveterate womaniser, Asim meets the failed comedian Superman impersonator Samet while fleeing from an angry husband. Desperate Samet finds himself unwittingly implicated in the life of the gang... (cinemas-online.co.uk)

The story of 1980 summer Yilmaz lived in his own town... The last days of his childhood... The days he saw so many things about love, friendship, neighbourhood, politics and culture... The days he witnessed the various relationships between the people in the town... (imdb)

Riza, a poor fellow living in Istanbul suburbs, has to work as Santa at a shopping mall leading up to Christmas (imdb user comments)

Everyone has different expectations of summer. And Comedy Kitchen: Holiday Recipes has a place for them all. Those who find their long-awaited summer romance and then think...

Documantary about philosophy of Mevlana Muhammed Celaluddin Rumi and portraying the brilliance of Rumi and his internationally acclaimed philosophy.

In the dead of night, a group of men - including a police commissioner, a prosecutor, a doctor and a murder suspect - drive through the tenebrous Anatolian countryside, the serpentine roads and rolling hills lit only by the headlights of their cars. They are searching for a corpse, the victim of a brutal murder. The suspect, who claims he was drunk, can't remember where he buried the body. As the night draws on, details about the murder emerge and the investigators' own secrets and hypocrisies come to light. In the Anatolian steppes, nothing is what it seems; and when the body is found, the real questions begin. (cinemaguild.com)

Acclaimed Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi (A Time for Drunken Horses) directs Monica Bellucci and Iranian superstar Behrouz Vossoughi in this haunting, dreamlike love story that spans three decades. (tiff.net)

It is the story of two poets, Rüştü Onur and Muzaffer Tayyip Uslu, and their literature teacher at High School, the poet Behçet Necatigil. The two young men dream of brilliant futures, but perhaps this is not to be. (ica.org.uk)

The film tells the story of a man who has become crazy after the economic crisis, and his family's scheme to make money by turning him into a saint.

An Australian man travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to try and locate his three missing sons.

Riza is a minibus driver universally loved by the folk of Surici, the neighborhood of Istanbul where he was born and raised. Ayperi on the other hand is the outsider who will turn Riza's life upside down, as well as everything he knows and is familiar with. This is the story of two young people nestling under the wing of timeless friendship in an ordinary neighborhood. (imdb)

ESRA leads two parallel lives. In her worldly life as a Turkish Berliner in a re-united city, the vivacious and spirited Esra adores her family but feels caged in her relationships and languishes in her job. She clashes with the rules imposed on her and continually feels that something is missing, something is wrong, and there must be something more. (imdb)

The funny story of Çitir Family and those around this family. (imdb)

Events happening in a bus stop, written by Yılmaz Erdoğan

A collaborative work between nine directors from different countries and belief systems, and based on a concept by Guillermo Arriega, Words with Gods is a contemplative film about faith and its lack thereof. From atheism to Hinduism, from Islam to Buddhism, each director tells a story based on the belief system of their native culture. Yılmaz Erdoğan once again gets the chance to work with Bahman Ghobadi in this film which brings together one of the most exciting list of directors among short (film.iksv.org)

Promising a visual feast of colors, costumes, light and locations, SOUR APPLES will have you simultaneously laughing and crying with its powerful acting performances as well as Yilmaz Erdogan's witty and memorable dialogues. (imdb)

Yilmaz Erdogan wrote and directed the play.

Asim Noyan swindles people with his lies and games. Asim Noyan and his gang, who no one else has been able to catch, gets into a ruse again.

Yilmaz Erdogan's stand-up performance.

The players are playing the sketches that they've written and at the end of the sketch, Yilmaz Erdogan comes out from the spectators and wants from the spectators to evaluate the performances of the players and the spectators grade them. (imdb)

Rebellious, irreverent wunderkind Gülseren navigates loneliness, love and loss against the current of political turmoil and social change.

Ahead of a promotion, a police chief becomes embroiled in a fatal incident and uncovers a grudge-fueled plot that threatens his associates.

A stand-up comedy about the life of Turkish actor/director/producer Yilmaz Erdogan.

A family migrates to the city after a tragic loss. When they reunite in their hometown 30 years later, buried emotions and painful secrets resurface.

Literature teacher Azem Yücedag, who was accused of killing his wife, is released from prison and embarks on a path to search for what he lost. (imdb)

A male (Yilmaz Erdogan) and female (Demet Akbag) meets at desolate balcony during a party. After a little while they start to talk via phone for hours and like each other. Their relationship turns into a passionate love which brings about a marriage; sooner or later they start to realize that their relationship has critical problems which are needed to be solved. (imdb)