Samim Meriç

Whistle If You Come Back

A dwarf and a transvestite, both are excluded from the society and doomed to exist at night. Their lives overlap in a strange encounter and this becomes the start of their friendship.

Pir Sultan Abdal

The film tells the story of Pir Sultan Abdal, a famous folk poet in Turkey, who criticized some Ottoman governors, Hizir Pasha in particular and as a result was hung by him.

Denize Hançer Düştü

The story of two female theater actors, Deniz and İpek. The events that take place during the rehearsals and staging of Jean Genet's play "The Balcony" are intertwined with love, indifference, passion, sexuality, and the lust for power, just like in the play itself.

Elif ile Seydo

While he was just an ordinary imam, his sister was raped and murdered by bullies. Everything was destroyed, but later he became a skilled swordsman and made his enemies bleed.

Tehlikeli Adam

The film tells the story of a man trying to find his wife's killer. Returning from a business trip, Yılmaz finds his wife Gülsüm dead. The police then arrive and arrest Yılmaz. At the trial, two neighbors falsely testify against Yılmaz, accusing him of the crime. To avoid being arrested, Yılmaz pretends to be insane. This allows him to avoid going to prison. However, he is admitted to the hospital. Yılmaz will escape from the hospital and attempt to find the killer.

Özlem: Düne, Bugüne, Yarına...

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.

Both Were Brave

The film is about two gangsters facing each other. Yalçın is the most notorious gangster in the city. He plans to leave the city with Figen and give up gangsterism. Ali Duran, on the other hand, is a gangster whose reputation has spread throughout the country. As a result of his nine-year prison sentence, he has been exiled to the city for six months. Rumors that spread upon the news of Ali Duran's arrival provoke Yalçın against him. Ali Duran is waiting for the day he will reunite with his mother, whom he has longed for over the years, and remains silent about the actions taken against him. However, someone is doing everything in their power to pit the two gangsters against each other.

İki Başlı Dev

Büyük Yemin

Esir Kuş

A triple love story between Mine (Nebahat Çehre), the owner of the farm in the deserted lake valley, and pilot Mazhar (Samim Meriç), whom she had to marry due to the threat of death in the air, and her childhood sweetheart, her aunt's son Ümit (Göksel Arsoy).