7 Cities

Striking painted visuals evoke the encounter between the great 13th-century Sufi poet Mevlana Rumi and the wandering dervish Sh...

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Beyond the Hill

Faik, a proud old forester, is having trouble with nomads grazing their livestock on his land. For revenge, he and his hulking ...

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Boats Out of Watermelon Rinds

In a small Turkish village in the 1960's, two young boys are so in love with the movies that they fashion a makeshift projector...

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Crossing

Lia, a retired teacher, has promised to find her long-lost niece, Tekla. Her search takes her to Istanbul where she meets Evrim...

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Jîn

Reha Erdem relays in radiant detail the effects of the decades-long Turkish-Kurdish conflict. Seventeen-year-old rebel Jîn aban...

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My Marlon and Brando

They fell in love on a film set-but she's a Turk living in Istanbul, and he's a Kurd living in Iraq, which US forces have just ...

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Noah Land

A son strives to honor his terminally ill father’s last wish to be buried under a tree he planted as a child, but clashes with ...

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Öte

Öte follows Lela, a Black woman from New York City traveling alone through Turkey. In no rush to reach her destination, Lela i...

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Pandora's Box

Yesim Ustaoglu's (Journey to the Sun) latest is a gorgeous, expertly developed cross-generational dramedy. When an aging matria...

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Takva - A Man's Fear of God

In contemporary Istanbul, the basic goodness and simplicity of Muharrem, a 45-year old single man living in one of the city's o...

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The Play

When nine peasant women from a mountain village in southern Turkey decide to write and perform a play based on their life stori...

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Time of the Plums

Yasemin lives in her own world of fantasy with the notes she feels and the sounds she sees, as she spends a day with her mother...

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Times and Winds

This unforgettable, beautifully observed film is a lyrical and haunting portrait of life in a remote Turkish mountain village, ...

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