Barış Gönenen

Apollon by Day Athena by Night (2024)

Raised as an orphan, Defne, a cranky newbie psychic, finds herself in the ancient town of Side (Antalya), accompanied by the ghosts of a Marxist revolutionary, a prostitute and a primeval priestess; as she searches for her long lost mother. ...

At Last (2023)

On a seemingly ordinary night in Istanbul, a young couple are on the way to a friend's farewell party. They soon begin to face the strenuous challenges of navigating their city, causing them to grow increasingly tired and agitated, questioning their own li ...

A Night in Four Parts (2022)

Two former high school buddies meet on a raki night in Beyoğlu after 17 years. As they drink and talk they realize another life is possible on a land where toxic masculinity does not exist. They represent the great divide in Turkish gay society: The lonel ...

La Belle Indifference (2019)

Onur is sacked from his job as manager of a pharmaceutical company. He's not too bothered about being unemployed, but the same cannot be said of his wife Bahar. Onur doesn't listen to her and becomes indifferent not only to her anxieties but also to the wo ...

Hippocampus (2015)

Erkan changes his gender and become a transexual. The doorman of his apartment has a crush on Erkan's woman view. The doorman witnesses the argument between Erkan and two men. He finds out that that Erkan is originally a man under the attractive woman view ...

Firak (2015)

Çekmeköy Underground (2015)

Fidelity (2014)

Istanbul 2014: Aslı gives shelter to a young political activist, who got into a fight with the police. The police investigates the case and ends up questioning Aslı's family. Her husband gets drawn into the affair. Their lives, and also their son's, star ...