Nazan Kesal

Bitter Coffee (2024)

Before the wedding, the families of the man and the woman come together. At this meeting, where rituals specific to Turkey are discussed, while there is complete harmony between the two families, it is revealed that the groom committed a murder in the past ...

Peace with Life (2024)

The story of Barış Telli, who suffered an unfortunate accident at a young age and, through his intense struggle after the accident, became not only a member of the Amputee Football National Team but also one of the most inspiring athletes in the country' ...

On the Water Surface (2023)

Deniz returns to her hometown to attend her widowed mother's wedding. The anger, fear, and guilt she thought she'd left behind, resurface during the visit. As her mother leaves her the family house, a tragedy haunts her. She can't stop thinking about her f ...

Your Wild Dogs Want Freedom (2022)

Part filmmaking exercise and part philosophical study, this film is a dual journey for the creator: an exploration of her cinematic language during her studies, and an inquiry into the human impulse to domesticate the wild at the expense of primal instinct ...

You Know Him (2020)

Doctor Kemal is head of a private hospital, is ambitious and has the best intentions for the residents of Istanbul. He is the best candidate for mayor of the Beyoglu district – in his opinion. An opinion not shared by his sceptical ex-wife; nor by the vo ...

Aydede (2018)

Losing his father at a very young age, Bekir lives with his mother Rabia and grandfather İlyas, who jointly run a haberdashery store. When İlyas passes away, to spare him grief young Bekir is told that "his beloved grandfather has gone to the moon and be ...

In Vain (2018)

The struggle of a mother who tries to understand her son by putting herself in his shoes after his death. ...

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 ...

Inflame (2017)

Hasret has been seeing the same nightmare for some time, but she keeps living unaware that what she sees is actually remembering. A 30-year-old woman who works in a News Channel, living alone in the flat left by her musician parents who died in a car crash ...

The Bank of Broken Hearts (2017)

Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, set in Istanbul, the tragic story of three heroes chasing an unlikely dream, running towards their sad end in a Shakespearean manner. ...

My Brother (2016)

Two resentful, singer brothers Hakan and Ozan who can't get along well. Meet again in their father's funeral. Even though they want to get back to their daily lives after the funeral, their father's will won't allow it. They will take a journey with their ...

Delibal (2015)

A love story following two young people battling with their emotions and dreams, the pressures of career, family and not knowing what the future holds. Füsun is a brilliant student, destined for a successful career but can't help from falling for Baris, a ...

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. ...

Mother Virgin No More (2015)

As an unexpected truth about a young women gets revealed to her mother, the basic fact that a mother - daughter relationship is supposed to be based on unconditional love will have to be questioned. ...

Unmade Bed (2015)

It's a quiet morning and a middle-aged woman is lying on the bed, watching her sleeping husband's back. ...

Circle (2014)

In the hard-boiled world, where will the soft-shelled end up? A cozy kind of extermination is on the stage and keeping a low profile. The decadence around us is nothing less than clandestine annihilation of the civil man. Yet it is carried out so well with ...

Shift 12-48 (2012)

Hair (2010)

A wig-maker from Istanbul, who suffers from cancer, becomes obsessed with a woman who enters his shop one day. ...

Conscience (2008)

Centers on a passionate and complicated love story that connects three small-town people trying to survive solely on their labor. Aydanur is a young woman living in Anatolia who wants to break away from whatever life has--or doesn't have--to offer her. Mea ...

Making Climates (2006)

A documentary about the shooting session of the film "Climates / İklimler" by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. The film had been shot in various parts of Turkey in various seasons. Climates is the first digital film of the director Nuri Bilge Ceylan. And besides direct ...

Climates (2006)

Man was made to be happy for simple reasons and unhappy for even simpler ones – just as he is born for simple reasons and dies for even simpler ones... Isa and Bahar are two lonely figures dragged through the ever-changing climate of their inner selves i ...

Distant (2002)

A young man from rural Turkey arrives in Istanbul with dreams of working on a ship and stays with a cousin while he searches for work. Over time, the former's struggles to find employment and the latter's troubles and disappointments strain their relations ...

Fate (2001)

Musa, a customs clerk, sees life as absurd. He drifts with events; his mother's death, though loved, brings him strange joy. ...

Şara (1999)

Şara was born and raised in Istanbul, is a law student in her final year, and is an educated tribal girl. She learns that her father, whom she has never met, is seriously ill and goes to her hometown to see him. At first, her family, tribe, and step-sibli ...

Istanbul Beneath My Wings (1996)

During the sea battle which took place between the Ottoman Empire and the Italians, a ship which had been seized in the Mediterranean Sea is brought to Istanbul, and a young wounded lady named Francesca, the daughter of the killed Captain, becomes a slave ...

Özlem: Düne, Bugüne, Yarına... (1995)

A triptych of literary adaptations explores past, present and future in rural Turkey. "Düne Özlem" (from Hulki Aktunç's Bir Yergöstericinin Hayatı): A once-famed traveling critic returns after years to the cinema that launched his career—and finds ...

Bir Sonbahar Hikayesi (1994)

Daydreams of Miss Cazibe (1992)

Cazibe is a woman in her late thirties, who has never got married or had a relationship with a man in her life. She lives with her old mother and her uncle who feels an attraction towards her. The lonely woman, whose only existence is her small room, spend ...

The Shadow Play (1992)

Mahmut and Abidin work as comedians at a night club, Mahmut is honest yet Abidin is sly. A deaf and mute girl named Kumru is brought to work in the night club. ...

Swing (2013)

The last 12 minutes of a young woman in a house on the edge of the city. The radical decision of a woman whose life was made a prison by tradition, violence and poverty... ...