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Showing 12 Films from Turkey
7 Cities
7 Cities
Striking painted visuals evoke the encounter between the great 13th-century Sufi poet Mevlana Rumi and the wandering dervish Sh...
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Beyond the Hill
Beyond the Hill
Faik, a proud old forester, is having trouble with nomads grazing their livestock on his land. For revenge, he and his hulking ...
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Boats Out of Watermelon Rinds
Boats Out of Watermelon Rinds
In a small Turkish village in the 1960's, two young boys are so in love with the movies that they fashion a makeshift projector...
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Jîn
Jîn
Reha Erdem relays in radiant detail the effects of the decades-long Turkish-Kurdish conflict. Seventeen-year-old rebel Jîn aban...
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My Marlon and Brando
My Marlon and Brando
They fell in love on a film set-but she's a Turk living in Istanbul, and he's a Kurd living in Iraq, which US forces have just ...
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Noah Land
Noah Land
A son strives to honor his terminally ill father’s last wish to be buried under a tree he planted as a child, but clashes with ...
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Öte
Öte
Öte follows Lela, a Black woman from New York City traveling alone through Turkey. In no rush to reach her destination, Lela i...
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Pandora's Box
Pandora's Box
Yesim Ustaoglu's (Journey to the Sun) latest is a gorgeous, expertly developed cross-generational dramedy. When an aging matria...
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Takva - A Man's Fear of God
Takva - A Man's Fear of God
In contemporary Istanbul, the basic goodness and simplicity of Muharrem, a 45-year old single man living in one of the city's o...
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The Play
The Play
When nine peasant women from a mountain village in southern Turkey decide to write and perform a play based on their life stori...
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Time of the Plums
Time of the Plums
Yasemin lives in her own world of fantasy with the notes she feels and the sounds she sees, as she spends a day with her mother...
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Times and Winds
Times and Winds
This unforgettable, beautifully observed film is a lyrical and haunting portrait of life in a remote Turkish mountain village, ...
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