Nur Sürer

Sultana is a drama set in Istanbul's one and only strip club, telling a story of a women, power, rivalry and solidarity. A new Turkish story where women are not victims in a fairy tale, but warriors learning that the 'handsome prince' is often the real monster- and their only salvation is each other. Meral the long reigning queen of the one and only strip club of Istanbul which is Sultana, takes a talented new Belarusian dancer named Anna under her wing. But she soon realizes she has created a rival powerful enough to replace her, and a ruthless power struggle erupts between the two women.

Battered, broken and bereaved, a private investigator must muscle his way through a tangle of lies to uncover the truth behind a mansion murder.

From an intoxicating fantasy to a dangerous affair, a wealthy married woman finds her life irreversibly shattered after picking up an unpublished novel.

Kara Bayram is a poor farmer living in a Turkish village with his wife, 3 kids (4th on the way) and his old mother Irazca Ana. They live on their own until another villager, Haceli who is backed up by the Mukhtar (local administrator of the Village) starts to build a new house right in front of their's. Kara Bayram and Irazca Ana do not accept these uninvited neighboors from the first day and unwanted events start right away.

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A midwife is caught in a snowstorm on the way to Anatolia and forced to spend four months in an isolated village., where she’s soon tending sick children and delivering babies.

Gülizar is a young and beautiful village girl. Against her will, she is betrothed to a young man from her village at her family's request. Her fiancé goes to Istanbul to work in order to earn a dowry. One day, Gülizar's fate suddenly changes with the arrival of a new teacher in the village. Gülizar secretly falls deeply in love with the teacher, İsmail. They eventually decide to marry. However, the teacher's death in an accident shatters Gülizar's world. Her fiancé returns to the village with the dowry money after some time. While Gülizar endures the immense pain of losing her beloved without being able to share it with anyone, she is forced to marry her fiancé. Yet Gülizar has become the woman of the young teacher she loves. Gülizar's father is caught between tradition and his daughter, as according to custom, her honor can only be cleansed by her death.

A family forcibly displaced from their village struggles to stay together when Süsen, the daughter of an already broken home, defies her kin to marry her childhood love Yusuf. As her father and brother abandon the family and marriage fails to bring the dreamed-of salvation, Süsen and Yusuf must confront mounting responsibilities and learn to adapt, or risk losing each other entirely.

Commissioner Kemal, who is nearing retirement, investigates a suicide case. Cezmi Kara, whose face has become unrecognizable, has been found dead in her home. Kemal suspects that this is a murder and obsesses over the dead man's face.

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During the period of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, a woman who reluctantly went to a gloomy Istanbul mansion as a bride, and the mysterious owner of the mansion, will go on a journey to the dark secrets of the past together.

Short film directed by Akin Gungor. Rüya has come to England to study from Turkey and resides in the flat her uncle has allocated for her. She disappeared without a trace a year ago. After his uncle Rüya's disappearance, he tried every way to find her but failed. Rüya's mother, Sevgi, comes to England from Turkey to find her daughter and participates in a TV show. Just at this time, a meteorite falls in the Cambridge region and there is a fluctuation in internet frequencies. On the other hand, Rüya met Özgür from a social media application.

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A family migrates to the city after a tragic loss. When they reunite in their hometown 30 years later, buried emotions and painful secrets resurface.

Reeling from her father's death, romantic disappointment and the ramifications of her uncle's gambling, Günfer meets a man who's not what he seems.

Tuncel Kurtiz is an international actor who has worked in various countries such as Turkey, Germany, and Sweden throughout his fifty-year career. He has starred in countless works in cinema, stage and television and has received many awards, including the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. He has directed two documentaries and a feature-length fiction film. Kurtiz's acting performance ranges from popular melodramas to major plays such as Mahabharata (Peter Brook), encompassing many different genres and styles. As an actor, Kurtiz believes in the creative power of chaos: 'Chaos is the most difficult to create / Not a false chaos / Many things come out of chaos'. Through testimonies, film excerpts, and archive footage, this documentary reflects Tuncel Kurtiz's diverse body of artistic work in all its dimensions for the first time. In the background of this detailed portrait are Turkey's turbulent years and the reality of exile.

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A coming storm after dog days dawns during a road trip to an island for a funeral. The deceased is buried in haste and a man makes a detour through Aegean Turkey. The funeral is eclipsed by a last wish.

Ramazan, together with his children, migrate to the big city, Istanbul in order to give them a better life. His daughter Fidan begins working as a clerk at a shop. But she could not adapt to the life of big city. She runs away with the son of the shop owner. Ramazan searches for his daughter, but the big city already has corrupted his daughter

Duygu, who works as a translator at a translation agency, experiences loneliness with her doctor husband Yılmaz, although she does not know the exact reason why. The young woman takes refuge in her childhood to escape her inner conflicts and remembers the days when she and her brother Hâluk used to collect fireflies.

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Adapted from Kemalettin Tuğcu's work "The Unwanted Man". Engin, a renowned surgeon, and his wife are attacked. Despite his best efforts, Engin is unable to save his injured wife. As a result of this tragic event, he loses his career and all his connections, retreating into seclusion. During these days of isolation from life, Süreyya enters his life. They begin to feel a connection with one another. However, shortly thereafter, he will once again be forced to confront his greatest fear...

Famous film director Levent (45), the honorary guest of Soke Film Festival from Istanbul, is completely unaware of Aliye (25), a housekeeper at the hotel where he is staying. However, Aliye, who is trying to tailor a new life story for herself, knows Levent and his films very well. Aliye's intriguing story brings together these two distant people with completely different lives. Now, they have to choose between reality and fiction.

Dilan works in her uncle's real estate office and lives with her mother. She will turn thirty soon, and feels she is not living up to her potential. A documentary crew follows her while they try to figure out the problem.

In a village in eastern Turkey, tales of the economic success of Turks in Switzerland inspire Haydar to convince his wife Meryem that they must go. He sells their livestock and small plot of land in exchange for passage for two. He wants to leave their seven children in the care of the eldest and his parents; his father advises him to take one son to be educated in Europe. Will anyone reach the land of promise?

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Zelihan and Necmettin, a young couple, live in a small village in the service of an agha. They share their poor "one-eye" room with the agha's ox. In this environment of poverty and loneliness, the agha's brother is determined to seduce Zelihan, whom he has set his eyes on.

Suna, who attracts attention with her beauty and personality, goes on vacation with her friend Ayla, who has severed her ties with romantic relationships. This vacation brings out their sexual desires and drags them into an unwanted predicament.

The sequel to *If It’s Meant to Be*, which was released in 2020.

In the Kurdish village "Youngest Heart" not only the walls are unconventional, but also the people. They care about their domestic animals and are sons of the soil. The outside World is of little interest to the villagers. Thirteen-year-old "Devil" Pascha and his gang are always to blame for anything that adds to the chaos in the village. With enthusiasm and cheekiness, he plays pranks on the others, be it the Mullah of the Village, his mother or his sister. His wild temperament and tricks only lead to more disorder between the children and the adults in the village. One day a fat German soprano singer visits the village. She wants to live there for a while to write her doctoral thesis on Kurdish folk dancing and singing. The feudal lord Ali Aga, the Mullah, and in fact all the men, dream of marrying the yellow-haired woman. She does not understand what is going on in the village, but "Devil" Pascha does and uses this get up to new mischief.

Having lost her husband, Sultan seeks remarriage to escape her loneliness. Despite her son's objections and her daughter's criticism that it's "too early," she is determined. To survive as a single woman, she breaks social norms, turns her house into a boarding house, opens a stall in the market, and enters male-dominated businesses. Her courageous stance inspires other women in the town and sparks the women's struggle for independence.

Ten years old Cemil runs away from his stepfather who tortures him and his mother and ends up in Istanbul. Veli Firat Tanis, the leader of a gang which Cemil takes refuge in Haydarpasa, tries to send him back to his home by putting his pocket money. While the gang gather money for Cemil, they, at the same time, suffer from harsh living conditions. In the mean time Cemil's mother Münevver comes to Istanbul in the hope of finding her son.

Sent to prison along with his mother after her drug conviction, a young boy develops a warm, tender relationship with a political prisoner.

Thirty years after the 1980 coup, the paths of a family whose lives were shattered cross again. Deniz and Devrim, two siblings who never knew each other and were forced to grow up separately, reunite with their mother, Melek. Each of them harbors anger and longing that they have kept hidden for years. The three will revisit the past, confront each other for the first time in their lives, and try to piece the broken pieces back together.

Zerya is a woman in her 50s living in Paris. She had to leave the country for 22 years because of the chemical gas that Saddam Hussein dropped on the city of Halabja on March 16, 1988. She has lived in France for 30 years. While visiting an art exhibition in Paris, Zerya sees Magritte's painting "This is not an apple". This painting has a traumatic meaning for Zerya.

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Ece goes to House of Nightmares for find the man that she saw in her dreams every night. Will be answered her questions when the man appears.

Şefik, a successful soldier, is one of the leading figures of the Committee of Union and Progress. When Abdulhamid II declares a constitutional monarchy, Şefik and his friends go to Istanbul. They plan to closely monitor the events unfolding there. However, it is here that Şefik will part ways with the society.

Mustafa, has to marry his brother's widowed wife as per the customs. However, the young man is in love with his new wife's sister Zeynep. Mustafa's friend Nizam is also in love with Zeynep.

One day waves bring a wooden statue of Lenin to a small town by the Black Sea. The statue is erected in the town square by the Municipality with the hope that it would attract tourists to the town. As an official opening ceremony is planned with the participation of the Prime Minister and a Russian delegation, the statue gets stolen. Two police investigators from Ankara are assigned to find Lenin in twelve hours. Townspeople give an unexpected answer to the question «Where is Lenin?».

Hulya is a young Turkish woman torn between two cultures. Forced to live with her uncle in Turkey, she leaves this house: she wants to return to Germany where she lived with her father and went to school, not so long ago.

Zuhal, a successful lawyer living alone in the center of Istanbul, begins to hear the sound of a cat in her house one day. She sets out on a quest in her apartment to find this cat, which no one has heard of but herself.

The tragic story of three farm worker who migrates from their village to the cotton land Çukurova.

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.

Being released from prison, a traumatized political prisoner retreats to a fishing village. Here, among the vacationers, he hears a voice which he immediately identifies as the voice of one of the policemen whom he never saw the faces of, and who tortured him.

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Hayalimdeki Sahneler aims to explain and analyze scenes from 3 heavily queer coded Turkish films from 80s.