Murat Sağlam

In an Anatolian city, Mr. Mehmet, a wealthy and respected merchant, is approaching death. As his condition worsens, family members and acquaintances begin gathering around him. Beneath the quiet atmosphere of the house, long buried tensions, unspoken expectations, and hidden ambitions slowly emerge. Through silences, gestures, and fragile relationships, The Wealth explores the emotional and moral fractures created by inheritance, family ties, and the inevitability of death.

Three strangers with one thing in common — the same father — come to a Turkish village to bury him, and learn about him and each other.

In the early morning following a night shaken by citywide protests, Ali, a man in his twenties, is awakened by police sirens and forced to act as a “Hazirun” during a search of a neighboring apartment. Drawn into the process with no ability to intervene-valued only for his presence, signature, and silence-Ali becomes trapped in a gray zone between law, authority, and conscience, as events spiral out of control and irreversibly fracture his everyday life.

In a dystopian Turkey, the Government begins installing new TV antennas to homes throughout the country. Mehmet, a superintendent at a crumbling apartment complex, has to supervise the installation of the new antenna. When the broadcast it transmits begins to menace the residents of the apartment complex. Mehmet must seek out the spiteful entity. The night bulletin reflects the oppressed society of today's Turkey where freedom of speech is in jeopardy.

A Sunday in a high-rise building in Istanbul. Some only hear their own voice, and some in their loud silence. The day is shadowed by an unexpected event.

Quiet and introverted toll booth clerk Kenan's life, a humdrum routine between the Tavsancik toll booth plaza and his home, will change the day the new operations chief comes to inspect Tavsancik.

Bayram works at a textile workshop in his spare time after school to help support his family. After his father's death, his older brother took on all the responsibility of providing for the family. Bayram supports his brother as much as he can by working at the textile workshop after school. When his brother is drafted into the army, Bayram is left alone at home with his mother and embarks on a journey into the unknown.

Four twenty somethings in contemporary Istanbul: Zeynep is a student who feels distressed from following daily news. Her housemate Ayşe tries to flee abroad because she cannot see a future for herself in Turkey. Mehmet is a married engineer who is never satisfied with his above-average life, while unemployed Ali feels stuck living with his parents. Coincidences bring them together in a playful manner. Almost Entirely a Slight Disaster explores the anxieties faced by the new generation with its humorous and intertwined ways.

An incident occurs at an ordinary Turkish funeral. While throwing soil onto the deceased with a shovel, one of the mourners accidentally drops his phone into the grave. When he realizes he has dropped his phone, he stops the burial and asks to retrieve it. However, one of the mourners says that the grave cannot be reopened due to religious beliefs. With the imam who is conducting the funeral also getting involved, an unusual argument ensues.

The little girl who is waiting for good news from her pregnant mother who is taken to city for birth and new born baby sister with her grandparents and the neighbours that came to their home, learns that she has to cauterize her own foot for her new born baby sister's health. The feeling of guilt and responsibility that she feels make her start to trying cauterize her own foot. After the lots of tense, fearful moments she gets caught by her grandmother before she managed it. End of the day she gets good news from her sister and mother but she continues sleeping instead of giving this important news to her grandparents.