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Who is Mihri

Who is Mihri tells painter Mihri’s untold story. Director Berna Gençalp decides to trace Mihri’s journey from late Ottoman era Istanbul onward to Rome, Paris, and New York. Mihri, whose image, artistic work, and life story have been unjustly obscured, lost, and deformed is revived through archival material, interviews, and animated sequences.

Mahkumlar Adası

Story of a girl who named herself “Hunter”.

The Station

A lonely man who lives and works at a train station for years, starts questioning his life and environment after he encounters a little mouse.

Scale

A woman, who feels suffocated of business world and city life finds a way out.

The Garden

The story of a girl who spent her early childhood in nature but then had to grow up in a big city.

Weeping Willow

All the cavalry on horseback. Then one of them fell off his horse. The army did not turn to look at the fallen soldier. The horsemen marched in all their splendor to the setting sun. That's when the soldier, left alone, remembered the past. A free adaptation of Nazim Hikmet Ran's poem "Weeping Willow".

In the Threads of Time

People float in Destiny, chosen from among the threads of time made up of thousands of possibilities.

Girl, Slipped Inside

Story of a girl who slips inside herself while meditating.

Flawless Life

A lucky day in the life of a homeless man.

Tetrist

“Tetrist” is a lost Tetris game set-up of today’s Istanbul. The game starts with the image of a re-worked 16th century Pera District miniature of Nasuh the Macer, and moves on with the company of music art that documents the last century of Istanbul. The buildings in the district fall down like Tetris pieces, and get placed by an invisible player. Having been built faster and faster with the proceeding time and changing music art, buildings leave Galata Tower behind and move on to the point of “Game Over”.