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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Elephants and Grass

    Critical and often acidly hilarious thriller about corruption and crime in today’s Turkey. A marathon runner becomes unwittingly involved in the dirty
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  • Away from Home

    Celebrated writer makes his début with life-like story showing the tragedies of three Turkish generations, on the theme of emigration, skillfully and
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  • Der schöne Tag

    This tranquil pictorial novel is a strikingly mature film narrative about relationships. Critic’s Choice of Beatrijs van Agt, Skrien.
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  • Future Lasts Forever

    Sumru travels to Diyarbakir to do research for her thesis. Listening to the evidence of Kurdish victims of the sanguinary oppression, she is confronte
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  • Voice of My Father

    The history of a Kurdish family from 1979-2009, utilising a mix of documentary and fiction. Exquisite images and personal sound recordings (tapes sent
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  • Ebedi dönüs

    Engrossing mix of Turkish soaps and poetry, with no beginning or end, in which themes such as family, loneliness, departures and love are magnified.
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  • Majority

    A wonderful portrait of a rural family and modern city existence, told through the life (and its problems) of a teenage boy, his relatives and…
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  • Je vis dans le rêve de ma mère

    The film is the dream of the real mother of the maker, about a young dark filmmaker who travels through many European and Asian countries…
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  • Zephyr

    Teenage girl Zephyr spends her youth in the house of her grandparents, in the stunningly beautiful countryside. Every day she awaits the return of her
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  • Kasaba

    Awe-inspiring black-and-white début film of Nuri Bilge Ceylan, shot in a village in Anatolia, about the director’s childhood years. Two children are w
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