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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 52 Hertz, she is the loneliest whale in the world, and she is my best friend.

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 it unrecognizably transformed. “Bugüne Özlem” (from Kemal Tahir’s Arabacı): A horse-drawn cart driver picks up two stranger women en route to a village—unaware they intend to marry him off to their spinster relative. “Yarına Özlem” (from Zeyyat Selimoğlu’s Bıldırcınlar): An old captain haunted by a fatal shipwreck readies quail-hunting with his grandson, even as his daughter-in-law waits in vain for her migrant husband to return from Germany. Each segment poignantly probes longing— for what was, what is, and what might yet come.

Armin has been unemployed for a long time, and in desperately need of a job. His wife Jasmina is pregnant, and his son Edin has behavioral problems at school.

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 international air crash catastrophe on July 17, 2014.

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 September 12, there was a knock on the door again. Those who came that day changed everything, everything. Nothing will ever be the same again

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

On the 50th anniversary of the Cyprus Peace Operation, TRT World revisits the island's turbulent history and asks: Is there still hope for reconciliation?

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 their last possessions and live a pleasant but melancholic life.

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.

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 has access to crucial information that she needs to interpret. What is at the horizon for her family and people – rescue or death? Which move should she take?

The global corporations have established cities and agricultural zones in areas where the climate is relatively good. These cities are populated by the elites, while the immigrant masses struggle with hunger and epidemics. For unknown reasons, the city’s agricultural plantations have been hit by a genetic crisis - and, as a result, by massive crop failure. Professor Erol Erin, a seed genetics specialist learns of Cemil Akman, a fellow scientist. Apparently, Cemil wrote a thesis about the recurrent crisis affecting genetically modified seeds - but the work was banned by the corporation..

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 unexpected war tactic and inflict a heavy defeat on them.

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, the author shows him the fig tree that the main character uses in the book, and in the end, he experiences what he wrote in his own life.

The film, adapted from Ahmet Harndi Tanpınar's story of the same name, tells the story of a traveling theater troupe that travels from city to city. The story takes place on a train during World War II. The train windows are blacked out to avoid detection.

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.

Karagöz, who is going through difficult times due to poverty, reflects this problem in his home life. As a result, he argues with his wife and decides to rent out his house. Unable to escape his problems, Karagöz deceives Tuzsuz by following Hacivat's advice. However, this causes him to experience even more serious problems. Right in the midst of this chaos, Karagöz's wife plays a game to take revenge on him. Will Karagöz be able to escape the situation he has found himself in?

Araf is the story of Zehra and Olgun whose lives are caught in a vacuum. The world in which they live and work is a place of throwaway culture and constant change. They too are waiting for a chance to change and escape from their empty, monotonous lives.

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

Ertuğrul Bey and the Knights Templar in the 13th century Alba and step and step with the struggle against brutal Mongols depicts the process of establishing the Ottoman principality.

Bizimkiler (Ours, Our People) was a Turkish drama, represented the lives of the people shared the same neighborhood. It is one of the longest-running series in Turkish television drama history.

Ali Reşat, a man of traditions, is released with an amnesty after many years in prison. While plotting revenge against his enemies in the mafia who put him in this situation, he seeks ways to win back his estranged son.

TRT's historical drama, based on the life of "Barbaros" Hayreddin Pasha and his brothers. The series tells the adventures of Ishak, Oruc, Hizir, and Ilyas fighting high tides and the secrets of the seas in pursuit of the holy secret.

A naïve young woman goes to Istanbul to meet the now-grown boy who jokingly promised to marry her in 11 years after she saved his life as a child.

A couple with no kids, four city girls and three country boys, all under the same roof: arguing, fighting and sometimes understanding they are not that much different.

Epic independence fight in 21st century. Turkish independence war against occupying forces (Greece, England, France, Italy) in her land.

Eray, a senior manager in a bank, does not get the promotion he looks up to. As his moral compass is put to test, he finds himself having to choose between integrity and ambition: Will he get the position he deserves by any means necessary?

Amidst the journalism, Young Turk partisanship, and other events that ravaged the country before the Second Constitutional Era, Adnan, a law student living with his mother in Aksaray, becomes a teacher at a pasha's mansion to teach the pasha's daughter Süheyla through the mediation of a friend. Despite his pro-freedom ideas, Adnan wins the pasha's favor with his morality and honesty. While he intends to marry Süheyla, he meets Belkıs Hanım, the daughter of another pasha known for his corruption and disliked by the people, but who is married to perhaps the only beardless, mustache-less officer in the army. known for corruption and disliked by the people, but married to perhaps the only beardless officer in the army. Confused, Adnan abandons the idea of marrying Süheyla. However, he is only a teacher to Belkıs. Based on the novel of the same name by Mithat Cemal Kuntay.

This origin of the republic of Turkey. As İzmir celebrates victory, Latife Hanım’s admiration for Mustafa Kemal deepens while she hosts his mother, Zübeyde Hanım, in her home. Meanwhile, at Çankaya Mansion, the ailing Fikriye Hanım hides her worsening condition from Mustafa Kemal, only to be sent to a sanatorium as the War of Independence rages on.