Movies: Derya Durmaz

Elaha, 22, believes she must restore her supposed innocence before she weds. A surgeon could reconstruct her hymen but she cannot afford such an operation. She asks herself: why does she have to be a virgin anyway, and for whom?...

Several directors from countries of the region were invited to create stories taking place in and around the beautiful city of Istanbul, in the vein of “Paris, je t’aime” and “New York, I love you”. They come together to remind viewers that Istanbul’...

Teenage best friends Doe and Muna are going on a trip of a lifetime. Quiet, watchful Doe hasn’t gone anywhere since arriving in the UK as a refugee from Somalia at the age of three. Badass Muna of Pakistani heritage, is the dominant force, leads Doe ...

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

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Deniz and her friends, who have been apart for the summer, have much to tell each other. While adults are busy with their professional lives, Deniz and her friends are still confused about their university plans. Through the worries of their daily ro...

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Sivan, at around the age of 20, is a native of the Southeastern region of Anatolia. His father Saho is the leader of the Givdanli tribe who stays distant both to the state and to the insurgents who are influent in the region, in order to secure its e...

Nehir comes across to someone singing songs all night long. She likes what she listens so much that she goes after this mysterious musician....

Love and Revolution is a story that puts the years of youth at its center. These are the years in which humankind feels the sense of belonging, the urge to take root in life in the strongest way. This is a period in which the existing identities are ...

4 years old Armenian girl Ziazan one day decides to go on an adventure. She will sneak in from Armenia to Turkey inside her uncle's luggage. Will she be able to go over the closed borders between 2 countries and realize her adventure?...

Tolga is a science-fiction writer who has never been able to achieve the success of his first book. The signature day of his last book also results in a fiasco. Tolga, who has become a depressed soul, also fights with his lover Ebru and is abandoned....

A "modern" Turkish family expects an exchange student from France who will accompany her 10-year-old daughter for the summer. Their shy daughter will not only practice French, but also have a friend finally. When this "expected visitor" came Nergiz i...

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....

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 sympath...

A small story born in Berlin, the city that fools you with its liberal outlook and makes you feel that all the problems of patriarchy and gender inequality are solved there. But then you discover that things are still not so different from how they w...