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see all genres ›A commercial heyday from the 1950s through the 1970s ended when the arrival of television, along with various bouts of economic and political turmoil, badly hurt domestic film production in Turkey. Recently, however, a new generation of filmmakers has won international attention and festival acclaim.
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L'immortelle
With its highly stylized camerawork and fragmented narrative structure, Alain Robbe-Grillet's L'IMMORTELLE is a cinematic arabesque that teases the eye with visual delights, yet sadistically confounds the viewer's expectations. Not dissimilar to Alan Resnais's LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD, which he had...Watch Movie
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Climates
Winner of the prestigious Fipresci Award at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, CLIMATES is internationally acclaimed writer-director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s sublime follow-up to his Cannes multi-award winner DISTANT. Beautifully drawn and meticulously observed, the film vividly recalls the cinema of...Watch Movie
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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
In the dead of night, a group of men (among them, a police commissioner, a prosecutor, a doctor and a murder suspect) drive through the Anatolian countryside, the serpentine roads and rolling hills lit only by the headlights of their cars. They are searching for a corpse, the...Watch Movie
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What's a Human Anyway?
Set in an urban apartment building where neighbors, friends and family are living in close quarters, the film focuses on male protagonists through whom the three phases of stepping into manhood in Turkish society are explored. Ali, suffering from temporary amnesia, is the main...Watch Movie
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Seytan
Forget the notion of remakes, sequels, prequels, extended scenes and modified versions of movies; the Turkish motion picture industry has been making their own versions of American movies for years. After the worldwide success of William Friedkin's 1973 classic film THE EXORCIST, those wacky...Watch Movie
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The Translator
Yusuf is a 13-year-old refugee boy who lives in a Turkish border town with his grandparents. He spends his days in a complete alienation. The only things that make Yusuf excited are the tumbling pigeons and the existence of a 15-year-old girl, Amina, who absolutely doesn't have an idea of him....Watch Movie
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Toll Booth
A taciturn tollbooth attendant shuffles between a suffocating home life with his ailing father and the monotony of the box where he works. Desperate to resist his father’s attempt to marry him off while determined to prove his worth by fixing his family’s broken-down car, he drives himself toward...Watch Movie
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Conversations Across the Bosphorus
The narratives of two Muslim women from Istanbul, Gokcen and Mine, are intertwined in CONVERSATIONS ACROSS THE BOSPHORUS. Gokcen, from an orthodox Islamic family, tells her story of taking off the veil after years of struggle. Mine, from a secular family who immigrated to San...Watch Movie
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The Unstable Object
Daniel Eisenberg's THE UNSTABLE OBJECT juxtaposes the production of luxury automobiles in Dresden, clocks in Chicago and cymbals in a town outside of Istanbul. These detailed observations of modern factories reveal the distance between the creation and consumption of objects...Watch Movie
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Alluvion
Different temporalities spatially co-exist in a Turkish coastal town: the linear time of history and daily life, the cyclical time of seasons and days and the tourist time that stands still. A father and his grown children of unnamed nationality, make their way through a landscape where ancient...Watch Movie
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Saving Flipper
Our love affair with dolphins began with the television series FLIPPER and ended in a multi-million dollar industry of abuse. From the dazzling sea shows where dolphins are driven to suicide to an annual dolphin slaughter in a small cove in Japan, SAVING FLIPPER reveals the nightmare behind the...Watch Movie
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The Son of the Olive Merchant
For their honeymoon, Anna and Mathieu went to Turkey. With camera in hand, they traced the footsteps of Garabed, the Armenian grand-father of Mathieu, who escape the 1915 genocide. They are determined to learn more about Mathew's Armenian origins. In this country where...Watch Movie
