Meral Çetinkaya

Tour Guide (2025)

Ercüment is a showman but every single time he performs, it ends up being a disaster. After a while of being in between jobs, he finds himself as a tour guide due to his father's illness and he has to deal with senior people that are taking the tour just ...

Yaren Leylek (2024)

Adem is not ready for the idea of having a sibling and goes to his grandmother's house with his family. There, he meets his grandfather's stork, Yaren, and they immediately become friends. Ilyas, who builds nests for storks in the village, objects to the c ...

Tears of Cem Karaca (2024)

Against a backdrop of political unrest in Turkey, this biopic charts the life of Anatolian rock singer Cem Karaca, focusing on his revolutionary ideals. Heightened emotions and moments of threat reflect the country's rising tensions. ...

Vatikan'ın Şifresi: Bir Temel Macerası (2023)

The film tells the story of Temel, who tries to overcome an impossible task with his friends in order to be with the girl he loves. ...

Oh Belinda (2023)

A young actor's perfect life takes a madcap turn when she agrees to star in a commercial — and suddenly gets transported to her character's world. ...

A Matter of Prestige (2023)

The film, which deals with the birth and rise of the Prestige Music generation, tells the passions and life struggles of artists, including Özcan Deniz, Haluk Levent and Mahsun Kırmızıgül, from the 1990s to the present. ...

Iron Woman: Neslican (2023)

Demir Kadın Neslican tells the life story of "Iron Woman" Neslican Tay, who gave hope to people with her struggle to cling to life while undergoing cancer treatment. The film recounts the difficult treatment process that began when she was diagnosed with ...

Dalgalar ve İzler (2021)

Just Different (2020)

Fikret works at the library. He is married and has a ten-year-old son. He literally has a routine life. With his wife leaving home, he loses his ability to continue his daily life. His son suddenly finds himself in the position of his father's father. The ...

Miracles Of Love (2019)

During the 1960s, a disabled man finds himself in an arranged marriage to the most beautiful girl in the village. ...

Sibel (2019)

25-year-old Sibel lives with her father and sister in a secluded village in the mountains of Turkey's Black Sea region. Sibel is a mute, but she communicates by using the ancestral whistled language of the area. ...

Fegere (2018)

Arif is a retired family man who has fallen in love with acting. While working as an extra on TV series sets in the hope of being discovered, he is accidentally cast in a two-page role as a doctor. This role will also cause him to experience the most traum ...

Secrets from the Past (2017)

Ali, a young photographer who lives with his family, finds himself in an unusual and sad story in Bosnia and Herzegovina after a genetic disorder. Having never visited Bosnia, he will look for the traces of his own past. Hana, who lives in Bosnia, will not ...

Ayla: The Daughter of War (2017)

In 1950, amidst the ravages of the Korean War, Sergeant Süleyman stumbles upon a a half-frozen little girl, with no parents and no help in sight and he risks his own life to save her, smuggling her into his army base and out of harm's way. ...

Benim Babam Bir Melek (2017)

Murtaza (2017)

Sabure and Murtaza live in a mountain village in Malatya. Sabure lost both her eyes years ago. Her husband Murtaza takes care of her. Their children live in Istanbul. One day, Murtaza goes to the village and calls his daughter in Istanbul from the grocery ...

Vezir Parmağı (2017)

In this story set in ancient times, 31 women who lost their husbands, fathers, and children in war rise up against their lack of men after many years and demand that the state send them men to marry and have children. Five single men from different regions ...

Babaannem (2016)

Ve Panayır Köyden Gider (2016)

A series of strange events begins in a small village with a dark past when a stranger arrives and questions his own past. ...

Cahide Devekuşu'nun Açık Evliliği (2016)

Dust Cloth (2015)

Nesrin and Hatun are two Kurdish cleaning women living in Istanbul. While Nesrin tries to survive with her little daughter, trying to understand why her husband left her, Hatun dreams of buying a house in the district where they clean. ...

The Miracle (2015)

1960s Turkey countryside. A newly assigned teacher finds out that the solitary village is missing a school. He gets fond of the village people and especially a disabled man. The teacher helps the village to build a new school and educate the children and t ...

Girls' Robbery (2014)

After a mother in debt seeks moral support from her three closest friends, she ends up with a ragtag crew ready to rob a bank. ...

Tales from Kars (2010)

Omnibus of five short films that were shot in the Turkish province of Kars, on the border with Armenia. Among the five directors are three debutants who were chosen to film their stories after winning a scenario contest. The final result is a sympathetic c ...

In Darkness (2009)

A drama-thriller centered on an advertising agency employee for whom work is an outlet from his life under his overbearing mother's roof. ...

Bliss (2007)

A young woman of about 17 years old, named Meryem (Ozgu Namal), has been raped, and her village's customs call for her to be killed to restore honor and dignity to her family and village. The eldest son of the village leader, Cemal (Murat Han), is ordered ...

Vizontele Tuuba (2004)

Guner Sernikli is a government official who, with his wife and their wheelchair bound daughter, has been assigned as the head librarian to this isolated province, virtually an exile since there is no library in the village. The family is warmly welcome, bu ...

Maruf (2001)

Maruf is a young man from Southeast Anatolia whose only concern is to marry his beloved as soon as possible. His mother became disabled while giving birth to him, which has strained his relationship with his father. Maruf wants to join the army and takes l ...

Vizontele (2001)

The story takes place in the small town of Hakkari in Turkey at the beginning of the '70s. The time has come to bring technology to that small town. The first Television (called Visiontele by the citizens) arrives and the chaos begins. ...

Duruşma (1999)

The story revolves around the beautiful Nazan, the neighbor's daughter, who manages to remain a virgin despite marrying two of the neighborhood's handsome men, Selami and Cavit; the fierce competition between Selami and Cavit for Nazan; the schemes orchest ...

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 ...

After the Fall (1999)

In the early days of the September 12 military coup, five-year-old Metin waits for his mother, singing to himself as he looks out the window. But his mother, Ayten, has been arrested and sent to prison. Since the child is alone at home, they take him to hi ...

The 80th Step (1996)

The story of a group of former activist friends who came together after September 12 and questioned the past. ...

Solgun Bir Sarı Gül (1996)

The story of a young man who spends his entire life trying to heal the wound his stepmother left in his soul. ...

Yaz Yağmuru (1994)

While working on his novel, an author discovers a mysterious girl in his garden. Is she real or imaginary? Despite this uncertainty, he delves into the girl's world. ...

The Trace (1994)

Commissioner Kemal, who is nearing retirement, investigates a suicide case. Cezmi Kara, whose face has become unrecognizable, has been found dead in her home. Kemal suspects that this is a murder and obsesses over the dead man's face. ...

Robert's Movie (1992)

Some time ago, Robert took some photos of military action which are now endangering his life. He is on the run from those who would find their publication damaging and is headed for Syria, where he believes he will be safe. While in Istanbul, he meets a po ...

Denize Hançer Düştü (1992)

The story of two female theater actors, Deniz and İpek. The events that take place during the rehearsals and staging of Jean Genet's play "The Balcony" are intertwined with love, indifference, passion, sexuality, and the lust for power, just like in the p ...

Piano Piano Kid (1991)

In 1940s Turkey, the war is recently over, but the wounds are still fresh, and the WWII is going on next door. A different family lives in each room of a mansion. They all lead a scarce life but hold on to life with hope. ...

The Nude (1991)

The story of two couples, Ayla and Yadigar and Seher and Hüseyin, who know each other on a journey through the secret history of nudity. This journey begins with two women starting nude modeling in an art academy, beyond the husbands' knowledge. But it do ...

Suyun Öte Yanı (1991)

İki Başlı Dev (1990)

Don't Let Them Shoot the Kite (1989)

Sent to prison along with his mother after her drug conviction, a young boy develops a warm, tender relationship with a political prisoner. ...

Scenes of Tide (1989)

Two passionate lovers who can neither live together nor apart and who are increasingly consumed by each other allow this toxic relationship to make them lose control of their lives. ...

From Canto to Tango (1989)

The story of how a small child's life is transformed by the woman his father loves, a cabaret singer, Anjelique. It opens in 1982, when the child is now on eighty-year old retired diplomat, living on his own with only a cat for company. ...

Ponente Lighthouse (1988)

Ponente Feneri is about a woman lighthouse keeper who lives on a deserted island with her elderly mother and daughter, and a man who takes refuge on the island. Şahin Gök is in the director's chair and the cast of the movie includes names such as Hülya ...

Despite Everything (1987)

After serving a jail sentence, Hasan gets a job driving a hearse for the protestant church, and becomes involved with a widow, Ayse, and her son. ...

Su da Yanar (1987)

It is the story of the dilemmas and struggles in the life of a film director during a period when fear and despair reigned, people were imprisoned, tortured, and killed. The director, who wants to make a film about Nazım Hikmet, is trying to find the mone ...

The Escape (1984)

Details the struggles of an oppressed woman's sexual frustrations. ...

A Sip of Love (1984)

Aygül is an unhappy woman who is trying to raise her four children without the help of her unemployed, no-good husband. She starts working in a factory and this becomes the igniter of her consciousness-raising process. ...

The Wall (1983)

Produced, written and directed by Yılmaz Güney within his own personal experiences of capital offense, he dedicates Duvar to male teenagers aged 13 to 19 living behind the bars under diabolical treatments. These teenagers get barbaric corporal punishment ...

Hazal (1979)

The son of a wealthy, respected family seeks the hand of Hazal; unexpectedly, soon after her marriage, her husband dies. According to custom, as the deceased family had paid dowry for Hazal, she must marry the next male sibling—which in this case, happen ...