Yusuf Ölmez

Recce

When a renowned film director, clashes with the young son of a house she's using as a filming location, a power struggle ensues, forcing the director to confront her own arrogance.

Deceptive Depths

Rifat is in the preparation process of a movie about strangers chatting at bus stops, together with his long-time friend and producer, Serhat. as Rifat gets more lonely and isolated, he reluctantly asks his brother in law for financial help. Rifat, who starts to face people around him even more closely as he does not get the reactions he expected during this process, gets lost in a vicious cycle in which he keeps changing the scenario for his film.

The Breakdown

When a dysfunctional family’s car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, their repressed grievances with each other bubble to the surface.

A Glass of Desire

A young woman’s husband is mysteriously taken away from her at dawn. She tries to mourn by remembering him through objects and imitation but this leads to a destructive discovery of her desires towards the mysterious entities that took her husband away. She finds herself in a realistic limbo of unexpected desires.

Wild Women of Anatolia

Wild Women of Anatolia is a documentary following the daily lives of five women across regions, generations and beliefs in Turkey. From a four-generation family harvesting nuts in the Black Sea region to Aslı who runs a historic coffee business in Istanbul, from Hira who gave birth in the Aegean Sea to Hatice, an Alevi/Kurdish woman in the high plains of Muş and Arya who fights for transgender rights in Ankara, we listen to five women’s stories of freedom, dreams and desire and witness their connections to their landscapes

Wind from the East (or 2021)

Wind from the East (or 2021) is a film about the movement at Bogazici University, considered by many to be the best university in the country, and its relation to the growing tyranny in Turkey. Highlighting the plight of women and LGBTQ citizens who are experiencing not only the rapid loss of their freedoms but what amounts to a fatwa when and if they dare to speak out against their government, the documentary aims to share the stories of Turkish citizens operating on the front lines in the battle for human rights, while expressing the need for art as a first line of defense against the totalitarianism that is quickly creeping westward.