Erol Afşin

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 ...

Proll! (2021)

Murat, Juri and Cornelia are among the so-called "working poor" – as click workers, in a cardboard factory and as freelance parcel deliverers, they are only linked by their low wages. Each one fights on his or her own. ...

My Brother, My Love (2018)

Lena is in love with her brother Noah. In the desperate attempt to conquer her feelings, she retreats into a world of her own. ...

Green (2018)

Green, an undocumented Turkish pedicab driver, unwittingly draws police attention, endangering his brother, his community, and himself. ...

Girls of the Sun (2018)

Bahar, the commanding officer of the Daughters of the Sun, a battalion made up entirely of Kurdish female soldiers, is on the cusp of liberating their town, which has been overrun by ISIS extremists. ...

Das Milan-Protokoll (2018)

Brothers (2017)

A young man is searching for his place in the world. He finds his way, religion and his "brothers" in the radical Islam. What begins with the wish of helping people in Syria leads Jan through religious murder as an ISIS-soldier and back to his home county ...

Nick: Off Duty (2016)

Day in, day out, Niklas 'Nick' Tschiller and his partner Yalcin Gümer investigate crimes that are happening in Hamburg. But at some point even the policeman needs a break to spend time with his daughter Lenny. Then it says: Tschiller a.D. - out of service ...

Mustang (2015)

In a Turkish village, five orphaned sisters live under strict rule while members of their family prepare their arranged marriages. ...

Before the Gate of Ictihad (2013)

Four Muslim friends meet in the forest to pray together and to talk in peace. The harmony gets broken by the coming out of Seydi and the circle gets in an endless spiral of contention; about Islam, sin and belief, forgiveness and punishment. Because Seydi ...

The Palace (2011)

Cyprus 1974. A Cypriot family flees advancing Turkish forces and takes refuge in an abandoned Ottoman-era palace. When a young Turkish Cypriot conscript comes face to face with the family in hiding, he is forced to confront the harsh reality of war and his ...

It's Burning (2023)

Amal, Omar, and their son Ahmad are a happy Arab family living in Germany. At the playground, they encounter a man named Franz. The situation gets out of hand when Franz insults and attacks Amal because of her headscarf. The case goes to court, but an inci ...