Emrullah Çakay

The Suitcase (2023)

The story of her grandmother's old suitcase moves Hazal to understand her kurdish families past and carry on the legacy. ...

Doubt (2022)

Sait, a man committed to his faith, has turned his back on the material world. This peaceful existence is shattered by a news story he sees on television and a municipal worker who comes knocking on his door in the middle of the night. ...

Distant Mirror (2022)

A magical realist, inner drama about a soldier who, when negotiating a minefield steps on a landmine and in his inner turmoil, he imagines he encounters a mirror that is a gateway into one very specific memory. ...

Soğuk (2022)

Saf (2022)

Turkish director Ali Vatansever weighs the human cost of politically motivated urban renewal in his achingly resonant second feature, about a young couple forced to compromise their ideals and work for the very industry encroaching on their Istanbul neighb ...

In the Shadows (2020)

It is near future story in Anatolia. There is no indication of time and place, an post-apocalyptic world that ruled over by primitive technology. Zait, a loyal mine worker who works for a mine factory which is managed by unknowns, declares war against the ...

Breath (2019)

Tamer, reliant on friends to navigate life, Aslı, aimless and living with family while tending to a sick neighbor, and Celil, an ordinary caregiver emotionally detached but devoted to his patients until death, cross paths in a poignant exploration of inte ...

Butterflies (2018)

Three strangers with one thing in common — the same father — come to a Turkish village to bury him, and learn about him and each other. ...