İpek Erden

Nothing in Its Place

In 1978, five leftist youths who believed that the leftist revolution could be realized through politics, not violence, gathered in a house and started to talk about the magazine they had published. The unexpected events that take place later that night reveal the political chaos in Turkey before the 1980 coup d'état.

Fragments of This Beauty

A focus on one of Turkey’s most bloody political massacres. In 1977, two men in a hotel room over a period of two days eat, shower, watch a soccer match on TV, stare at a painting on the wall and daydream. These two men are killing time before they cause the deaths of 34 people.

A Guide to Living for The Dead

Deniz, a crime machine, who has lost her feelings and empathetic abilities years ago, chases after a mysterious software that is supposed to be in Istanbul to find herself in a chaotic, one-night-only adventure.

Distant Mirror

A magical realist, inner drama about a soldier who, when negotiating a minefield steps on a landmine and in his inner turmoil, he imagines he encounters a mirror that is a gateway into one very specific memory.

Aftersun

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between miniDV footage as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't.

One Way

Osman was assigned to finish a blood feud by his family. As he hits the road, he spots a snail on the windshield and avoids using the wipers even when it's raining. On the way he picks up hitchhikers who end up guiding him to find his own way in life. Bartu and Günes are two youths who are trying to live in nature. Another hitchhiker Esin has quit her job as a singer at the nightclub because her boss wanted her to work as a hostess. She is the only person that Osman confesses his current task of murder. Muzo is the last hitchhiker Osman picks up and he is carrying a bag full of drugs. When the police stop them, Osman finds a way to live his life with a clear conscience.