Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. As an insider to the negotiations Aida has access to crucial information that she needs to interpret. What is at the horizon for her family and people – rescue or death? Which move should she take?
Set in Sarajevo in May 2021, the city's famous Old Town tries to recover after a difficult pandemic year. When a visitor from Zagreb comes looking for the best kebabs in town, a harmless gesture causes the disintegration of the business and private lives of several people.
The story follows a group of birds on a journey where they try to find a better life for themselves and the ones they love.
Fresh out of university, a Turkish young man with literary aspirations returns to his home village, and to his father, a debt-ridden man with a gambling problem.
The story of a Ukrainian family living on the border of Russia and Ukraine during the start of the war. Irka refuses to leave her house even as the village gets captured by armed forces. Shortly after they find themselves at the center of an international air crash catastrophe on July 17, 2014.
Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.
Two kids living in a small town runs away from home in order to find the movie star they fall in love with.
Ayşe returns to her hometown in northeastern Turkey to nurse her gravely ill mother. Before she dies, Ayse’s mother tells her that she will leave Ayse her much loved bee hives to manage. Ayse’s modern life has moved her away from the mountains of her childhood – a life in which the bees and their honey were central. But she puts her city life on hold to manage the bees, which provide a distraction from her grief. Ayse slowly starts to work with the local bee keeper to manage the hives but finds the lessons of her childhood are buried deep and the hives are more difficult to manage than she remembers. Ayse’s failure to pay needful attention to local advice sees her mothers bee hives seriously damaged, if not lost forever. What’s more a Caucasian bear becomes a real threat to her hives and her life.
A young nurse starts a new assignment in a small isolated village in the farthest reaches of Turkey, a place that seems asleep in an endless winter. A thick layer of snow covers the souls as well as the lands. But under the snow, unspeakable secrets hibernate.
April 1992. Members of a large family strewn around the former Yugoslavia gather around the death bed of their elderly matriarch. She is not well, but the forecast of a family doctor that her death is a matter of minutes away proves incorrect, so the waiting stretches out for days. Relatives start bickering, playing tricks and arguing over the inheritance to be left by the old woman, especially over her large family house in Sarajevo. Despite her deteriorating health, Grandma happily joins the fray. It appears as if that might be what is keeping her alive. Family feuds and intrigues directed against one of the sisters are more important to the family than the clear, terrifying signs of an approaching cataclysm. When the scheming is finally revealed, it is too late. A war has begun in Sarajevo.
This film follows father Ahmed and son Tarik Karaga during WWII and the Siege of Sarajevo.
The global corporations have established cities and agricultural zones in areas where the climate is relatively good. These cities are populated by the elites, while the immigrant masses struggle with hunger and epidemics. For unknown reasons, the city’s agricultural plantations have been hit by a genetic crisis - and, as a result, by massive crop failure. Professor Erol Erin, a seed genetics specialist learns of Cemil Akman, a fellow scientist. Apparently, Cemil wrote a thesis about the recurrent crisis affecting genetically modified seeds - but the work was banned by the corporation..
Suna is a teenage athlete who lives with her mother in a mountain village much like the world at large: here, things are run by older men who know it all, environmental destruction looms, and greed beats in most hearts.
Tarik is a mathematics teacher who is assigned from Anatolia to Istanbul. Director and other teachers explain to him that the school is a difficult one. First of all, the neighborhood is full of unwanted events. Men wait on the corners trying to sell drugs to kids. On top of all, his students hate math class. Tarik's worldview is not only about teaching mathematics but also about turning math into a system that the students can and use in their daily news. As a teacher, he has various ways to get his students interested in the subject. He tries to win them over by reflecting on the mathematical problems and symbols in their daily lives. However, students cannot concentrate on their classes due to the conditions of the school. Tarik finds himself in a huge struggle from the first day on.
Araf is the story of Zehra and Olgun whose lives are caught in a vacuum. The world in which they live and work is a place of throwaway culture and constant change. They too are waiting for a chance to change and escape from their empty, monotonous lives.
Mustafa Kemal Pasha started to work on the use of the new Turkish alphabet and international numbers. Community centers are established. Two problems remained; removing the records placed on the straits and Hatay. Young Turkey has healed the wounds of war and has started to progress rapidly on the path of civilization.
José Manuel and the other members of the ufology association Ovni-Levante meet weekly to exchange information about extraterrestrial messages and abductions. Julio, their leader, dies unexpectedly, leaving José Manuel as the only person who knows about the cosmic secret that could alter the human future.
Hello, my name is Batlır, not Butler. I’m not actually overweight, I just have some excess in a certain area…. It is told in Anatolia that a baby looks like whatever the mother craves while pregnant. My mother craved for watermelon. I mostly talk to 52 Hertz, she is the loneliest whale in the world, and she is my best friend.
Fikret works at the library. He is married and has a ten-year-old son. He literally has a routine life. With his wife leaving home, he loses his ability to continue his daily life. His son suddenly finds himself in the position of his father's father. The film tells the story of a father with high functioning autism and his "normal" son.
A nomad family migrates with their camels and goats when summer and winter turn. Balanced between traditional and modern lifestyles, migration season comes. What do they see ahead?
