Ahmet Kaynak

Edge of Night (2025)

Brothers Kenan and Sinan Yeşilyaprak, both officers in the Turkish army, have been conflicted since birth. Their father was a prominent — later persecuted — general and their mother a member of the oft-discriminated-against Kurdish minority. ...

Hakki (2024)

Middle-aged HAKKI lives in a historical Aegean village with his family. He provides for them by selling statuettes in front of the nearby ancient city as well as guiding local tours. The region harbors business opportunities as touristic interest booms; ho ...

Istanbul Trilogy: Muhabbet (2024)

A man who moved away from his hometown engages in deep conversations with his friends and family while toasting, eating and celebrating life. ...

We Are a Family (2020)

Haluk, an incompetent factory owner, competes with his wife and skillful operations manager Güler. As the power crisis between the husband and wife escalates, someone unexpected will suffer from it in a most tragic way. ...

Chronology (2019)

Hakan and Nihal have been married for many years. Shortly after they find out that Nihal is unable to have children, she disappears. While searching for her, Hakan makes some painful discoveries. He must face his inner demons to discover what happened to h ...

Trust (2018)

Ali and Meryem are an ordinary family on the face of it. Meryem has a child from a previous relationship with Ferit. When Ferit reappears years later, Ali puts his wife to a test of trust. While Meryem is caught between her sense of gratitude and the agony ...

Niyazi Bey (2017)

The Bank of Broken Hearts (2017)

Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, set in Istanbul, the tragic story of three heroes chasing an unlikely dream, running towards their sad end in a Shakespearean manner. ...

You Are on Earth, There Is No Cure for That (2016)

Levent killed the men who raped his girl friend and stayed in prison for 15 years. He got out of jail and he had nowhere else to go rather than his sister's Selma. Their father who is an Alzheimer patient is missing for 2 months. Police founds a dead body ...

The Half (2016)

Yarim (The Half) is the story of two halves setting out to become a whole, of the efforts made by two children to play the existing male-female roles. Fidan is a 15-year-old shepherd girl who lives in poverty with her family in a village in eastern Turkey. ...

Power-less (2012)

Herkes mi Aldatır? (2010)

Three couples head on vacation to a sensual getaway. What ensues is a tangled web of laughter, heartbreak, temptation, and raunchy revelations. ...