Tunahan Kurt | 2023 | 1 hr 22 min

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Winner Best Film (Ankara Film Festival)

Best Actor, Music, Cinematography, and Audience Award (Adana Film Festival) 

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A quiet, calm person working in a mine transfer facility, who struggles with sleepwalking, murders his wife in his sleep. He manages to conceal the incident as a suicide. With the guilt, the fear of doing the same to his son, he tries to find a new family for his son while teaching him lessons about life.

Nadim Güç | 2024 | 1 hr 30 min

Winner of Best Film and Best Actress (Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival)

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After losing her husband, Sultan, who is afraid of being left alone, tells her children that she wants to remarry immediately. However, her children do not find this appropriate, as only one day has passed since their father's death. Her son Nevzat, who has a traditional perspective, believes that no one in the small town will approve of this. Although her daughter Reyhan tries to respect her mother's wish, she thinks it is a decision made too soon. Despite her children's objections, Sultan does not give up on her desire. While searching for a suitable spouse, she also enters into business ventures, doing everything that people said "a woman cannot do."

Can Evrenol | 2024 | 1 hr 38 min

Presented by Scarecrow Video, in collaboration with Seattle Turkish Film Festival.

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Sayara is a young woman from Turkmenistan who works as a janitor in a gym in Istanbul. When her older sister is brutally murdered, and her killers are released due to “lack of evidence”, Sayara decides to take justice into her own hands. At a time when the number of femicides and perpetrators who go unpunished continues to rise in countries like Türkiye and Portugal, Turkish director creates “Sayara”, where a lethal Sambo fighter takes care of business when the judicial system fails.

Vuslat Saraçoglu | 2024 | 1 hr 47 min

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Winner of Best screenplay, actor and editing (Istanbul Film Festival)

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Tells the story of three completely different siblings who reconnect at their birthplace of Tokat, a city in the mid-Black Sea region of Turkey, due to the mysterious death of their father. During this time they at times bond over genuine interactions and at times face tensions with each other, realizing that nothing is what they think regarding their common origins.

Nehir Tuna | 2023 | 1 hr 58 min

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Gala film, Filmmaker in attandance

Winner of multiple awards including Best Film, Best Cinematography (Istanbul Film Festival), and Best Screenplay (Venice Film Festival)

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Based on the director's personal experiences, Dormitory tells the story of a young student in 1997, in a politically polarized Turkey, who is sent to a religious dormitory (yurt) and must navigate family expectations and the struggle between religion, secularism and childhood.

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​Film will be followed by a Gala Party at KEXP featuring catering by Gourmondo, a cash bar, and live music by 80s cover band Nite Wave.

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Cemil Agacıkoglu, Siyar Gedik | 2023 | 2 hr 3 min

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Official Selection (Toronto International Film Festival)

Nominated for Best film (Istanbul Film Festival, Göteborg Film Festival, Beijing International Film Festival)

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The Reeds tells the story of a young man living in a mountainous village in Anatolia, who has to defend his livelihood, his marriage and his harvest against the landlords, local thugs and the local kingpin.

Ferzan Özpetek | 2023 | 1 hr 5 min

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Winner of the Golden Space Needle award at SIFF (2004) with his film Facing Windows, multi-award winning Turkish-Italian filmmaker Ferzan Özpetek is back with a trilogy of short films showcasing his love of Istanbul, music and gastronomy. Originally made for Netflix Italy, Istanbul Trilogy consists of three short films titled Meze, Music, Muhabbet.

Zeki Demirkubuz | 2023 | 3 hr 13 min

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Turkey's Oscar submission

Winner Best Supporting Actor, Nominee Best Film, Director, Screenplay, Editing, Actress, Actor (SIYAD Turkish Film Critics Association)

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Life tells the story of Hicran who runs away from home upon a forced engagement. Her fiancé begins his search for her all over Istanbul. Directed by Turkish auteur Zeki Demirkubuz.