Screen: Turkey

Turkish cinema is on the upswing and is increasingly inspiring an international audience. In Screen: Turkey, we celebrate the creative heights of the film scene in Turkey.
  • Love, Spells and All That

    Love, Spells and All That

    Queer, Romance

    2019

    1h.36min

    12 FSK

    Twenty years later, two women find themselves back on the Turkish island where, as teenagers, they fell in love for the first time.


  • Burning Days

    Burning Days

    Crime, Thriller

    2022

    2h.10min

    16 FSK

    In this gritty Turkish crime thriller, a young prosecutor is drawn into the corruption of a small town struggling with a drought.


  • Not Knowing

    Not Knowing

    Drama, Queer

    2019

    1h.31min

    12 FSK

    Umut's life is turned upside down after a picture of him kissing a boy at his sports club turns up.


  • The Poet's Wife

    The Poet's Wife

    Biography, Documentary

    2021

    1h.34min

    0 FSK

    Helke Misselwitz visits the Datça peninsula in Turkey, where artist Güler Yücel has found her refuge.


  • Almost Entirely a Slight Disaster

    Almost Entirely a Slight Disaster

    Comedy, Drama

    2023

    1h.28min

    16+

    Director Umut Subaşı deftly captures the essence of millennial malaise in contemporary Istanbul.


  • Öte

    Öte

    Drama

    2023

    1h.48min

    16+

    A love letter to the unique magic of solo traveling.


  • La Belle Indifference

    La Belle Indifference

    Drama, Comedy

    2019

    1h.34min

    16+

    A dark comedy-drama, delving deep into the psyche of a man in denial and a woman confronting their grim reality, reflecting on societal pressures.


  • Snow and the Bear

    Snow and the Bear

    Drama

    2022

    1h.33min

    16+

    In a snowy Turkish village, a nurse faces a web of power, mystery, and suspicion, where a missing man and rumored bears blur reality.


  • Brother's Keeper

    Brother's Keeper

    Drama

    2021

    1h.25min

    16+

    A provincial boarding school for Kurdish boys becomes the flashpoint of a society riddled with power imbalances.


  • Geranium

    Geranium

    Drama

    2020

    1h.23min

    16+

    As death approaches, repressed secrets emerge from the dark recesses of a wealthy but emotionally cold family.


  • Anatolian Leopard

    Anatolian Leopard

    Drama

    2022

    1h.49min

    16+

    A geriatric leopard and an aging zoo director are the only ones who can still prevent the sale of the zoo in Ankara to foreign investors.


  • Les Enfants Terribles

    Les Enfants Terribles

    Documentary, Independent

    2021

    1h.33min

    16+

    Incredibly close and emotional, the film tells the stories of emancipation, love and struggle within a Turkish family.


  • Queen Lear

    Queen Lear

    Documentary, Independent

    2019

    1h.24min

    0

    Heartwarming doc about the transformative experience of an all-woman theater group touring rural Turkey performing Shakespeare’s King Lear.


  • Ghosts

    Ghosts

    Drama

    2020

    1h.30min

    16+

    During a black out, social and personal conflicts culminate in an Istanbul neighborhood threatened by gentrification.


  • The Pigeon

    The Pigeon

    Drama

    2018

    1h.16min

    16+

    A bittersweet drama about bird-loving Yusuf facing the loss of his little paradise on the rooftops of Adana.


  • Three Monkeys

    Three Monkeys

    Drama

    2007

    1h.46min

    12 FSK

    A family turns a blind eye to an injustice in this Turkish drama, provoking an even worse disaster.


  • Passed by Censor

    Passed by Censor

    Drama

    2019

    1h.31min

    16

    Zakir censors the mail of the inmates of an Istanbul prison. In a letter he discovers the image of a woman. Finding her becomes his obsession.


  • Istanbul United

    Istanbul United

    Documentary, Independent

    2014

    1h.25min

    16 FSK

    The story of an extraordinary alliance of rival soccer fans in Istanbul during the Gezi protests in 2013.


  • Come to My Voice

    Come to My Voice

    Kids & Family, Comedy

    2014

    1h.45min

    0 FSK

    In eastern Turkey, a young Kurdish woman is forced to make a weapon disappear.


  • My Father, the Revolution and Me

    My Father, the Revolution and Me

    Biography, Documentary

    2013

    1h.22min

    12

    A personal take on Turkish history by director Ufuk Emiroğlu. It's a mosaic of a film, which moves freely between documentary, fiction and animation.


  • What the Wind Took Away

    What the Wind Took Away

    Documentary, Independent

    2017

    1h.15min

    16+

    Although they have lost everything through their flight, the Jesidesses Hedil and Naam fight for a dignified life for their families.