2023 İSTANBUL FİLM FESTİVALİ
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- DirectorSofia AlaouiStarsOumaima BaridMehdi DehbiFouad OughaouAs she nears the end of her pregnancy, Itto and her in-laws find their lives turned upside down by a supernatural event.
- DirectorRolf de HeerStarsNatasha WanganeenCraig BehennaMwajemi HusseinFollowed by BlackWoman, who is abandoned in a cage in the middle of the desert. Once she escapes the cage, she walks from desert to mountain to city, to find - more captivity.
- DirectorJuly JungStarsKim Si-EunBae DoonaChoi Hee-jinHigh school student Sohee starts training for a job at a call center but the greed of her company leads to her death. Detective Oh Yu-jin, who has something in common with Sohee, starts to probe her demise and finds an unsettling truth.
- DirectorElena López RieraStarsLuna PamiésAlberto OlmoNieve de MedinaIn a small village in south-eastern Spain a popular old belief claims that some women are predestined to disappear with each flood where a storm threatens to cause the river in the village that runs through it to overflow again.
- DirectorPietro MarcelloStarsRaphaël ThiéryJuliette JouanNoémie LvovskyThe emancipation of a woman over twenty years, between 1919 and 1939, a time of great inventions and great dreams.
- DirectorAyse PolatStarsKatja BürkleAhmet VarliÇagla YurgaA German film team is shooting a documentary in northeastern Turkey. In a remote Kurdish village, they witness an elderly woman performing a recurring ritual to keep the memory of her missing son alive. The Kurdish translator of the German crew is also the nanny of Melek, a 7-year-old Turkish girl. Her father, Zafer, works for a sinister organization and is caught between loyalty to them and fear for his family's well-being when his daughter appears to be haunted by a mysterious force. The fateful encounter of these people develops a destructive power. IN THE BLIND SPOT unravels a complex net of conspiracy, paranoia and generational trauma.
- DirectorHouman SeyyediStarsMohsen TanabandehMahsa HejaziNeda JebraeiliAfter being cast in a movie, a day laborer has to secretly shelter his lover on the set or else risk losing her and all that movie stardom has promised him.
- DirectorMartin SkovbjergStarsAngela BundalovicJonas Holst SchmidtZlatko BuricA young woman named Ida disappears without a trace. Her boyfriend voluntarily lets himself be locked up to be questioned by Ida's father and brother, but Sander does not tell the whole truth.
- DirectorDmytro Sukholytkyy-SobchukStarsOleksandr YatsentyukStanislav PotiakSolomiia KyrylovaPamfir wants to be a decent family man, but challenging circumstances force him to give up honest breadwinning to help his family.
- DirectorBaris FertStarsDeniz IsinHaki BiçiciEce Bozkaya1992, Istanbul. Deniz, who lost her ability to empathize and feelings many years ago, has turned into a crime machine. Thanks to her emotionless nature, she improved her economic conditions and became someone in certain business circles. The information that a mysterious computer software is in Istanbul reaches Deniz, Rasit, and Önder, who are together in the state-mafia-politics triangle in which Deniz works. Deniz and Rasit get this software by force. This mysterious software is sent to England on the night of the events via a satellite dish. 4 million dollars is deposited into Önder's account in exchange for the software. Those who knew of the existence of four million dollars and this priceless software have whetted their appetites. Anyone who wants to get past their pursuers and get the money and software find themselves in a chaotic adventure that takes place in one night.
- DirectorBekir BülbülStarsSerkan BilgiEmine CiftciBahadir EfeIn South Eastern Anatolia Musa carries the corpse of deceased wife to the homeland with granddaughter. They face difficulties as they get closer to a country at war, they get caught up by the police they separate in different destinations.
- DirectorOrçun KöksalStarsAli Seçkiner AliciSezin BozaciMünir Can CindorukTwo zoologists are on a journey in Anatolia, researching the extinct Anatolian panther. Their quest for the panther make them question themselves and what they know. They will find much more than the panther they were seeking.
- DirectorFiliz KukaStarsMehmet Bilge AslanTülay BursaAsiye DinçsoyHizir loses his wife Halime, who has been in intensive care for a long time. Her daughter, Hatice, learns from the nurse Evren, who had been devotedly helping her ailing mother, that he caused her mother's death. Hatice tries to be compassionate to her father, who comes to her house. She refrains from revealing the truth to him, but after a while, she can't keep this secret anymore and shares it with her sister, Kader. While thinking that they should tell Evren's confession to their father, Kader thinks they should go to the police. Kader's persistence on her sister creates an existential problem for Hatice, who is crushed under the weight of Evren's confession. All family members have to face the truth at a family dinner.
- DirectorKaan MüjdeciStarsSaadet AksoyAkira MoriErtan SabanWhat happens, when an ordinary family in one of the arguably most advanced cities in the world starts living in two different worlds? What happens, when that fine line between reality and fantasy begins to blur, when a computer game controls the space you live in, re-defines your real life?
- DirectorOnur SaylakStarsKivanç TatlitugFunda EryigitGürgen ÖzA couple from Istanbul, settling in a village in the Aegean region to start a new and peaceful life. However, they will quickly realize that they have many enemies in this village.
- DirectorÇigdem SezginStarsNurcan ErenTarik PapuççuogluFirat TanisFifty year old, Suna has no income and finds a place to live by marrying an old man. She takes care of the man but hates going to bed with him. She gets depressed and starts drinking secretly.
- DirectorBelmin SöylemezStarsManolya MayaLaçin CeylanSenay AydinAylin, Frida and Lale struggle to hold on to their independence in increasingly conservative Istanbul, when their paths cross at Lale's acting courses.
- DirectorUmut SubasiStarsMelis SevinçMelisa BostanciogluIbrahim AriciCoincidence brings four twenty somethings in contemporary Istanbul together in humorous and playful ways. Almost Entirely a Slight Disaster explores the anxieties faced by the new generation with its humorous and intertwined ways.
- DirectorSezer AggezStarsIsmet ArasanEvren ArinReha ArinThe 40 Years After Fatma is a documentary project about the change experienced by the Tahtacis, the actors of Suha Arin's film Tahtaci Fatma (a.k.a. Fatma of the Forest), over the past 40 years.
- DirectorIdil AkkusEkin IlkbagStarsDefne BakirciMisra GundesA story about artistic swimmers, shared dreams, their struggle and their friendship.
- DirectorHelin CelikIt centers on three Jordanian women who barely survived the violence inflicted on them by men, listening to them speak with the opaque logic of trauma.
- DirectorBerna GencalpStarsFeride ÇetinEce DizdarDeniz TürkaliKim Mihri (Who is Mihri) is the painter Mihri's untold story. Director Berna, decides to trace Mihri's journey from late Ottoman era Istanbul onward to Rome, Paris and New York. Mihri, whose image, artistic work and life story have been unjustly obscured, lost and deformed are revived through interviews and fully animated sequences.
- DirectorFikret ReyhanStarsSelen KurtaranUgur KarabulutAlper ÇankayaNesrin who lives with her four-year-old son, struggles with her ex-husband Ömer's oppressive behavior and bureaucratic hardships while she is on the brink of making a critical decision regarding her relationship with her boyfriend Selim.
- DirectorPinar ÖgrenciFollows the story of the production of lokum, one of the most emblematic delicacies of Turkish culinary culture, that extends from Western Anatolia to the Greek island of Syros. Known as 'rahat-ul hulkum' in Arabic and 'lokoumi' in Greek, 'lokum' came to be called as 'Turkish Delight' at the end of the 19th century, when nationalist policies were introduced, and became the breadbasket for refugees fleeing the war that would soon begin.