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Apollon by Day Athena by Night

Defne travels to the ancient Mediterranean city of Side and encounters a revolutionary, a prostitute, a priestess, and other mysterious people. Guided by them, she searches for the mother who has abandoned her.

Ill Fortune

Defne, a young woman with special powers, makes an appointment for a tarot reading from the best fortuneteller of Kadıköy, Hale. The cards are spread, but Defne acts weird, she doesn’t seem to care. Whose fortune is being read, really? And who on earth is that strange dude hanging in the background? A harsh realty-check awaits them but definitely without cards.

The Outcast

An expatriate in Turkey, Claire pays the services of a smuggler to flee the country with her only daughter, whose custody she has just lost. But he abandons them in a dilapidated house in the middle of the forest.

Mother Virgin No More

As an unexpected truth about a young women gets revealed to her mother, the basic fact that a mother - daughter relationship is supposed to be based on unconditional love will have to be questioned.

The Impeccables

Two sisters in their early thirties find themselves isolated in the Aegean summer cottage of their childhood, as they must deal with their uneasy sibling relationship and confront their devastating recent past past.

Round Trip

For Walid, a taxi driver in Damascus, the only place he can steal a private kiss with his love, Suhair, is in his car. When Suhair is invited by her friend to visit Tehran, she and Walid together board a train from the Syrian capital to Tehran. As they follow the stunning scenery captured beautifully on film, Walid and Suhair finally have an opportunity to get to know each other outside of his taxi…