Alican Yücesoy

Not What You Think

Three siblings who are different from each other in terms of mentality and lifestyle: Tahsin (44), Yasin (38) and Remziye (34). Due to the mysterious death of their father, they meet in the city they were born, Tokat. During the time in Tokat, sometimes they get close to each other in a warm relationship, and sometimes they get tense. Sometimes one to two alliances are formed. The tangled structure of siblinghood is experienced in all aspects. They realize many things about their past are not like they actually want to remember. Nothing is as any of them know.

Fidan

13-year-old Fidan learns that she has earned the right to attend the country’s most prestigious high school. However, it is not easy for her to leave behind her father, who has disappeared under the shadow of tragic events, and her little brother, to move to the big city. Fidan finds herself at a crossroads, driven by the spirit of sacrifice so characteristic of the noble women of Anatolia. The decision she makes will shape her future. Should she go to the school her mother has dreamed of for her, one that promises to open the doors to a bright future? This is the story of one sapling among the millions of trees in a land where some of the world’s strongest women have lived and where, despite everything, miracles can still happen.

Zübeyde

Zübeyde, Mothers and Sons, tells the life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's mother, Zübeyde Hanim, which begins in Thessaloniki, in the last periods of the Ottoman Empire, and reflects the period until the declaration of the Republic.

8x8

A triangle of love, death and separation. Eda and Sarp rent an Airbnb before a long separation. They walk into the house to find the housekeeper, Can, lying on the floor having tried to kill himself. And they save his life. But something more important needs rescuing: their relationship… With the help of wine and weed, the three talk, become closer and start playing a guessing game. But after a while Can crosses a line, despite being consistently right in his guesses.

New Year's Eve

With the hope that the pandemic is coming to an end, Didem has been preparing for a New Year’s Eve celebration for over a month. All her loved ones can finally get together and make up for the lost time, but the lockdown announcement has her plans blown off course. Ozan is determined to let his wife have the celebration she deserves. He invites their neighbors to the party, and the fun begins.

Meeting Point

A man in his fifties, a woman in her twenties, as different as you can possibly imagine. They meet by chance. They will spend a few extremely important hours together…

Flag

The Flag is a fictional short film that tells the story of a misunderstanding of Eylem, who lives alone in a conservative district of Istanbul. Film based on a true story and narrated with black comedy elements.

The Cemil Show

Cemil, a wannabe actor auditions for the villain role in a film. He can't get the role but the role gets him.

Leyla Everlasting

A resilient housewife, her husband and their marriage therapist become mired in a toxic love triangle and a plot to obtain an antique manuscript.

Stone in the Well

The Stone in the Well is the effort of those who realize the colors in the world to guide those who lose their light. The documentary, which is the voice of helping people who have isolated themselves from the outside world, aims to reach those who cannot hear the music, cannot see the sun, and who are behind locked doors.

La Belle Indifference

Onur is sacked from his job as manager of a pharmaceutical company. He’s not too bothered about being unemployed, but the same cannot be said of his wife Bahar. Onur doesn’t listen to her and becomes indifferent not only to her anxieties but also to the world around him. He’d rather be surrounded by more zebras. A drama with dashes of absurd comedy about events that are no laughing matter: a personal crisis that impacts their marriage.

Lodging

Year 2000, Samsun... Uğur takes a minibus home. When he shudders, there’s a flash-back with his daughter Berrak’s voice with song of the eighties playing on the radio. Uğur, now working as a machinist in Sivas in 1980 tells his wife Handan that he got a promotion and was assigned to Divriği which meant they had to move again. However, they got a lodging and that’s a good news. Her neighbors mention about Alawite people living in Divriği and this makes Handan worried. After they arrive to Divriği, they can’t find a place to live since the lodging was still occupied. They begin to live in the reserve railway car. Handan is in poor spirits because of their Alawite neighbors, dangers caused by the railroad and not to be able to move to the lodging. After months of waiting, they finally move but the new developments would take them to a different point in their life.

Serial Cook

Meet Neslihan. A perfect cook, an expert on Turkish cuisine, strictly loyal to her husband, an impeccable house wife ...and a serial killer.

Take Him Back

A woman tries to save her marriage and win her husband back whilst trying to solve her mental problems. Yonca, who is passionately attached to her husband, does everything for the sake of saving her relationship.

125 Years Memory

Two historical incidents that deepened the friendship between Japan and Turkey are connected in this story of friendship and compassion: In the night of 16 September 1890 the Turkish frigate Ertuğrul is caught up in a typhoon and sinks off the Japanese coast. Risking their own lives, local villagers are able to rescue 69 Turkish sailors. Although being very poor and having hardly to eat, the villagers share what little they have with strangers from a country 9,000 kilometers away. 95 years later, during the Iran-Iraq War, more than 300 Japanese are stranded in Tehran. In the morning of 19 March 1985 a Turkish Airlines aircraft takes off for Tehran to evacuate the Japanese. But the remaining Turks at Tehran Mehrabad Airport still need to be convinced that they won't be able to board their own country's rescue flight.

The Cemil Show

Cemil is a shy young man who works behind the scenes in a shopping mall. He wants to be "the employee of the month" badly but he can't. That's when he rebels in a way that shocks everyone.

Eyyvah Eyvah 2

Second part of the turkish comedy film series.

Sleeping Princess

Çağan Irmak's delightful new film is a fairy tale for the waking hour. Aziz works as a clerk in a library and lives in his own quiet and peaceful little world. Then one day he discovers that he has new neighbours: Seçil, the owner of the new opened local beauty shop and her 10 year-old daughter Gizem. Life for Aziz becomes much brighter and livelier but then something unexpected happens and darkness descends once again. A whole new set of events is set in motion as a bunch of memorable characters join together to try to change the course of fate. From the Diary of Aziz: There are those who say that fate cannot be changed, for if it could, it would not be fate. So be it. How hopeless we would feel if we had to live in a world where nothing could change. Don't you think so? It might just be that there will come a day when you will realize that something bad that happened to you happened for a reason and caused something better to come about. You never know.

Ev

A psychopath gunman breaks in and plants bombs in bigbrother house to change the rules of the game.

Eyyvah Eyvah

Hüseyin is a young man who lives with his grandfather and grandmother in a village in Thracian Turkey. The two great loves of his life are his clarinet and Müjgan, a nurse. Although Hüseyin is content with his life, with his music and dreams of Mügan, due to an unexpected development he leaves his village. He ends up in Istanbul where he finds support first in his clarinet and then in the friendship of the singer Firuzan. Firuzan is a popular nightclub performer who is eagerly working on an album as she leads a colorful but complicated life. When Firuzan meets Huseyin, the course of events gives away to a hilarious adventure.

The Last Ottoman: Knockout Ali

After the First World War, the Allies occupy Istanbul. The protagonist, Yandim Ali is a rogue, discharged from the navy, who doesn't believe that the country can be saved, until he meets Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk), who plans to start a resistance in Anatolia against the occupying Allies, as well as the collaborators of an Ottoman government, that exists only on paper.

Hope Island

"Hope Island" tells the story of a group of people who come to the UK from Turkey illegally and a young girl who comes for the purpose of educational opportunities. These young people, who come from different classes and cultures, are taking the journey of hope towards England to resume life elsewhere.