Ali Düşenkalkar

Ceylin (2023)

Ceylin is a fourteen-year-old seasonal agricultural worker living in a tent city. Ceylin, whose only dream is to go to school, knows that this is impossible. Her mother Meryem is bedridden. Her brother Adem has had a troubled life after his military servic ...

Malazgirt 1071 (2022)

The story of the war, which is the beginning of the history of Turks in Anatolia. ...

Bize Müsaade (2021)

In the film, we follow the story of three close friends who work in the entertainment industry. The three friends set out to provide a consulting service that is a little out of the ordinary, but they witness an event they should not have seen. As a result ...

My Father (2017)

After his wife's sudden death, a man takes care of his son living with a disability with help from a new employee at his struggling factory. ...

Hep Yek 2 (2017)

Gürkan and Altan have fallen into the hands of Cevat Bakır. Cevat Bakır, who killed Şahin for betraying him in the first film, spares the lives of Şahin's accomplices, Altan and Gürkan, on the condition that they dispose of Şahin's body. However, th ...

5 Dakkada Değişir Bütün İşler (2016)

7 Centimeters (2016)

Erdem goes to high school. The principle warnes him to cut his hair for him to obey the school rules. When his parents also pressure him for the same reasons he falls into hesitation because the girl he likes, likes his hair. ...

Kutsal Bir Gün (2013)

The film takes place on the holy "Mother's Day" and tells the story of the characters' 24 hours. ...

Sümela'nın Şifresi: Temel (2011)

Ay Büyürken Uyuyamam (2011)

The action takes place in Aegean region. Melek is the most beautiful woman in the village. She is liked by more men. She get divorce with her husband and this annoys the rest of the villagers. They both want her and hate her. Melek is liked by the most ric ...

Lüks Otel (2011)

Luxury Hotel brings together four stories of hopelessness in the same hotel. Mehdi, who left behind a terrorist organization to pursue a new life; an Afghan family fleeing the Taliban; a young gay couple hoping to live their lives as they wish in the Istan ...

Kukuriku: Kadın Krallığı (2010)

My Only Sunshine (2009)

Hayat, her father and bedridden grandfather live in a riverside shack near the dangerously dark but breathtakingly beautiful waters of the Bosphorus. Hayat's father owns a small boat that secures the family's survival through a miscellany of not always law ...

The Ottoman Republic (2008)

The film depicts a world in which Atatürk never became leader, the War of Independence never took place, and the Ottoman Republic continues to exist in a form adapted to the present day. The continuation of the Ottoman Republic instead of the Republic of ...

Cars of the Revolution (2008)

In the years of military coup, Turkey was unable to produce its own cars. But Pasha believed that Turkish people can produce their own cars so he ordered 2 cars. Gunduz and engineers with him must produce 2 cars in only 130 days! ...

Mommy, I'm Scared (2006)

Reha Erdem's innovative group portrait of the inhabitants of an apartment building in Istanbul serves as a comic exploration of what it means to be human. The drama revolves around hapless taxi driver Ali, who suffers from amnesia as a result of an acciden ...

Kabuslar Evi: Kaçan Fırsatlar Limited (2006)

Taner is a successful, wealthy, ambitious, and powerful businessman. His life, built on the pink lies he shares with his wife Filiz, is turned upside down by an advertisement he sees on television and in magazines. "Missed Opportunities Limited: Reclaiming ...

Mud (2003)

Four 40-something friends are haunted by the violent past of a divided Cyprus. Temel wants desperately to speak about the crimes of vengeance he committed as a teenager. He would like to confess about the bodies buried in the muddy patch of a dried-up salt ...

A Run for Money (1999)

The film is set in present-day Istanbul. Selim is a shop owner in his early forties. He sells clothing for men in his shop situated in one of the back streets of Istanbul. Selim is a family man who has devoted his life to his home and his work. He lives wi ...

Deniz Bekliyordu (1998)

Istanbul Beneath My Wings (1996)

During the sea battle which took place between the Ottoman Empire and the Italians, a ship which had been seized in the Mediterranean Sea is brought to Istanbul, and a young wounded lady named Francesca, the daughter of the killed Captain, becomes a slave ...

The Blue Exile (1993)

Mavi Sürgün is a fictionalized account of one period of the life of a Turkish journalist who was condemned to exile for an article he wrote in 1925. He turned his punishment into a reward by creating a little paradise in what is today the holiday resort, ...

Oh, Moon! (1988)

Eleven-year-old Yekta lives in a crumbling island mansion with her strict aunts and ailing grandfather, yearning for her absent mother. As dreams and surreal visions shape her solitude, she sets out in search of a mythical seagull with a child's head. ...