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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Black Dogs Barking

    A dynamic shooting-style, pitch-perfect written street lingo and a transfixing dog-eat-dog story form the essence of this exciting first feature about
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  • Zara

    In an expanse of stony Turkish landscape, two women roam around looking for the village of Zara. The Kurdish Mirka is returning to her birthplace…
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  • The Storm

    The 90s were the heyday of Turkey’s student movement, and acclaimed documentarist Kazim Öz’s second feature The Storm is a true-to-life epic of Kurdis
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  • Ax

    A short film banned in Turkey about an old man who is the only one who refuses to leave a Kurdish village that is cleared…
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  • My Marlon and Brando

    Dramatic road movie based on a true story about a young theatre actress from Istanbul who wants to go to her lover. The problem is…
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  • Hidden Faces

    Complex and intriguing Turkish drama about revenge killing. A young woman who went into hiding from her family talks about her life in a documentary.
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  • Egg

    A poetic Turkish film in which a poet from Istanbul returns to his birthplace after the death of his mother and tries to find his…
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  • The Photograph

    Penetrating Turkish-Kurdish drama about two boys who make friends during a twenty-hour bus journey. One is going to do his military service in the Tur
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  • Rhino Season

    A political indictment and an epic love tragedy by IFFR audience-award winner Bahman Ghobadi (Turtles Can Fly), with Monica Bellucci playing the lead.
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  • Die Erbin

    In a small Turkish mountain village, Hülya returns from Germany to write a novel about her deceased father. Her father’s voice is omnipresent, in her
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