Esme Madra

Tower (2022)

The sun rises on a Sunday morning in Berlin. On her way home, Derin finds herself thinking about what she left behind. She remembers why and how she moved abroad. ...

But (2022)

A sarcastic, erotic, and tense gaze into the private, professional and social lives of Istanbulite artists whose lives intertwine with fiction. ...

The Pillar of Salt (2018)

A reclusive woman in her thirties leads a life frozen in time in a cave-like room. In her rare trips to the city, she chats with an oarswoman haunted by the devils. She searches for her twin sister in unfrequented corners of the city. In this journey in wh ...

Bosphorus (2018)

On one side of the city divided in two by the Bosphorus, a woman insistently tries to watch the other side. Emre Birişmen was born in Istanbul in 1986. He completed his undergraduate and graduate education at Sabancı University's Visual Arts and Visual C ...

The Swaying Waterlily (2016)

Handan and Korhan a middle-aged couple who live their lives in one of istanbul's best neighborhoods. Handan constantly invents things for herself in order to fill her life. Handan, imitates her friend Sermin and starts writing! But this desire, which is in ...

The Fish Pool (2015)

Until I Lose My Breath (2015)

A young girl working in a textile workshop is desperately trying to save money to make her father quit his job and find an apartment together with her. But her father does not seem to be the person she wants him to be. ...

Child's Play (2015)

Becoming an adult begins with moving out from your parents' house. While leaving the house, Derin hides an adult secret in the toy-box filled with her childhood memories. We step into adulthood sometimes voluntarily, or sometimes involuntarily and it gradu ...

Sober Nights (2015)

Zayiat (2013)

A man falls into the Bosphorus on a snowy night. His son, Mete half-heartedly searches for him in wintered Istanbul. ...

Zenne Dancer (2012)

German photographer Daniel Bert, who comes to Istanbul to do photo shoots, meets Can, who is a zenne at a nightclub, and Ahmet, who comes from a conservative eastern family. ...

Later (2012)

A bunch of friends gather in a house playing video games and having fun. They don't answer the phone calls, they don't stand emotional musics and they get melancholic when someone among them leaves the room. It seems like there is more than meets the eye. ...

Majority (2010)

A middle class young man rebels against his father's brutish authority and seeks a rough romance with a woman of ethnic minority. Yuce's moral tale draws from the example of today's Turkish youth and the timeless shadow of fathers over sons. ...

O da Beni Seviyor (2001)

Summer Love is a 2001 Turkish drama film directed and written by Barış Pirhasan with Gül Dirican. ...

Stormers (2022)

On the Storm tells a story about the changes that occur in two people's lives upon the arrival of a third person to their home. We see how games played by this couple in their home create a space to flourish their relationship but at the same time shield t ...

The Yellow, The Cat, The Kayakers and The Host (2020)

The Host is a woman living alone in the middle of a vast land. The visitors that she has long waited for finally arrive. They mingle with the Host's life, both interfering with her daily routines and helping her to take a decision. ...

The Fish Pool (2015)

Grueling and His Wife (2013)