Movies: Trt

Turkish democracy got over May 27 and March 12 and set off again, but the storm did not subside, and the mutual reckoning was not over. On the contrary, new fronts were opened in the country and blood began to flow like a gutter. Finally, on Septembe...

A film depicting the final days of the Ottoman Empire through the eyes of the heirs living in a mansion left behind by an Ottoman pasha. The pasha's grandson, his dreamer husband, his alcoholic daughter, and many unemployed and idle friends sell thei...

The story of a Ukrainian family living on the border of Russia and Ukraine during the start of the war. Irka refuses to leave her house even as the village gets captured by armed forces. Shortly after they find themselves at the center of an internat...

Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine....

Working, working, working... Here are the words that make up a contemporary Turkish fairy tale. In fact, this fairy tale is not just the story of one person or a family. It is also the story of a country......

No signs of life. A man at the train station cuts his way through the passengers standing still as if time stopped....

Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. As an insider to the negotiations Aida ha...

A driver with hours left until retirement, an engineer who is the silent hero of the sky and passengers... All in the same vehicle, but in different lives. On the night of July 15, an ordinary journey turns into the route of destiny....

A guy is excited to meet his girlfriend tonight. His friends persuade the man, who does not want to go out until the meeting time, to take him out. However, the night does not progress as expected and dreams and reality are mixed with each other....

The story follows a group of birds on a journey where they try to find a better life for themselves and the ones they love....

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 i...

A story based on the transition to a multi-party political system in the 1930s....

This film follows father Ahmed and son Tarik Karaga during WWII and the Siege of Sarajevo....

Tarik is a mathematics teacher who is assigned from Anatolia to Istanbul. Director and other teachers explain to him that the school is a difficult one. First of all, the neighborhood is full of unwanted events. Men wait on the corners trying to sell...

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Hello, my name is Batlır, not Butler. I’m not actually overweight, I just have some excess in a certain area…. It is told in Anatolia that a baby looks like whatever the mother craves while pregnant. My mother craved for watermelon. I mostly talk to ...

The three human characters are an old man, an old woman, and a young boy, who wander among the natural wonders and give the camera soulful looks....

The war units of the Hun Emperor Mete Han and the Chinese Emperor Gao-Zu, the father of the turan tactic used by the Turks for centuries, come face to face in the Battle of Baideng. The war genius Mete Han was going to surround the Chinese with an un...

There is an author of a theater book. He talks about death in his book, and the main character commits suicide. A journalist comes to talk to the author and asks him, "The book is like real life. Did you write something from your own life?" Upon this...

Set in Sarajevo in May 2021, the city's famous Old Town tries to recover after a difficult pandemic year. When a visitor from Zagreb comes looking for the best kebabs in town, a harmless gesture causes the disintegration of the business and private l...