43. istanbul film festivali - 2024
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- DirectorBaran GunduzalpStarsFatih Ibrahim SönmezNilay ErdönmezCan DemirLiving in a metropolis is actually holding on to a possibility. To the possibility of things going well, meeting interesting people, discovering a new street, having a different choice, and perhaps most likely to start over again... No one would like to leave a metropolis without using all these possibilities up. For Salih and Ayse, who have lived a white-collar life in Istanbul for years, life is like a harsh song with an unknown tune... Like their colleagues living in other geographies of the world, they realized that what they thought promised a safe future is a new form of slavery. The new generation that came after them said yes to much lower salaries than them, and became the sought-after employees of the market, with conditions getting tougher day by day. While the system is throwing up experienced employees like bile, a new generation has taken their place. Still, Salih goes to a different company for a job interview every day with hope. For Ayse, the situation is a little different. She saw that she could not do the job she wanted, she started working in a call center. She's been trying to sell insurance on the phone for hours. Maybe life would have been easier if there were only two of them... But they have a son, Emre, who has never spoken, even though he is six years old. Their lives can no longer continue in a way that they could afford with the salaries they received in their old jobs. They cannot afford the rent of the house they live in, and when Emre's psychologist expense is added, they are stuck. On the one hand, they are packing and looking for a suitable house for rent, on the other hand they are looking for a job for Salih. When he again comes out empty-handed from a job interview, Salih learns that there is a new line of business called motorcycle taxi driver. A few months after he was fired, he sold his car to buy some more time. Since then, the motorcycle they call Rosinante is the family's only transportation. Salih begins the motorcycle taxi business and carries people from different layers of Istanbul on his back seat. After years, he becomes an Istanbuler with them. At the same time Ayse, on the other hand, is being transferred to the home office system. This is the last exit before being fired. She knows that they will give the most impossible customers, and as her scores drop, she will eventually be out of work. With a sudden decision, Ayse puts on Salih's motorcycle helmet, puts on his clothes and starts taxiing at nights. She succeeds at first... They registered the system with Salih's name, so Ayse has to pretend as Salih while working as a motorcycle taxi driver. She never opens the helmet so that it is not understood that she is a woman, and does not talk to passengers. She is silent consciously, like her son. For the first time, she can understand her son a little. She gets used to it gradually... The days when Ayse experience the inevitable coincide with the period when Salih gets sick and stays at home. Ayse is unemployed, Salih is sick at home, all household items have been packed to move, but a new place has not been rented. Emre is crankier than ever, as if feeling the despair of his parents... Life has turned into a nightmare where they are stuck in the boxes accumulated inside the house. While Salih is dealing with his son and household chores at home, Ayse earns the bread. Until their motorcycle is stolen... There is no Rosinante. Now they have to walk to fight the windmills. When they get off Rosinante, they realize that their armor is made of tin. The only thing they can hold on to is small odds... the possibility of finding a new job, the possibility of their son speaking, the possibility of finding Rosinante in a city of sixteen million people...
- DirectorCemil AgacikogluStarsHilmi AhiskaSevgi TemelGökhan YikilkanSet in a village in Anatolia at the foothills of the mountains, portraying the story of the resistance of a young man, Ali, against the domination of landlords and local gangs, striving to win back his wife's love and affection.
- DirectorAslihan UnaldiStarsNihan AkerNazan DiperZafer DiperWhen two sisters embark on a sailing trip on the Aegean coast with their fractured family, simmering resentments and buried secrets rise to the surface, threatening to shatter their fragile bonds with each other and their homeland.
- DirectorSinan KesovaStarsAlp ÖykenDolunay SoysertYigit SertdemirAfter the passing of his wife Berna, Macit's hope for a fresh start is put to test by his son Alp and his wife's assistant Feyza, both strongly attached to Berna's legacy.
- DirectorMete GümürhanStarsAlihan SahinSinan ErogluHayat Van EckWhen his father decides to move from Holland to a posh gated community in Istanbul, 14-year old Zeki befriends a group of street kids from the adjacent slum.
- DirectorOzan YoleriStarsAhsen ErogluHazal SubasiÖzlem Zeynep DinselBetween the unexpected death of her closest friend in Paris and a shattered, sibylline Ottoman painting in Istanbul; a young fine art conservator tries to navigate through her mid-twenties.
- DirectorKivanç SezerStarsAlican YücesoyEce YükselHalil BabürA young couple Sarp and Eda rent an Airbnb house in a distant shore of Istanbul before a long break. They find Can lying on the ground in blood and help him to recover which will change their vacation for good.
- DirectorVuslat SaraçogluStarsHazal TüresanAlican YücesoySerdar OrçinTwo brothers and a sister; Tahsin (44), Yasin (38) and Remziye (34) have to meet in the city they were born due to the mysterious death of their father. They realize that they remember their common past differently. The tangled structure of siblinghood is experienced in all its aspects. Nothing is as any of them know.
- DirectorNehir TunaStarsDoga KarakasCan Bartu AslanOzan ÇelikTwelve-year-old Ahmet is devastated when his newly religious father sends him to an Islamic dormitory, a Yurt, to learn Muslim values. Recently converted, his father sees it as the righteous path for his son, and an opportunity for self-redemption. For Ahmet, it's a nightmare. In 1997, the political polarization in Turkey makes for a charged atmosphere, with tensions between religious and secular Turks increasingly present. Devout Muslim are ostracized, and religious dormitories, "Yurt"s, are regularly raided by soldiers. Ahmet works hard to be the "perfect son" but it isn't easy. He has trouble fitting in with rough kids at the Yurt, and feels isolated in his day secular school, where he hides his new home from his classmates. His only solace is a new friend Hakan, a street-smart kid who knows how to work the Yurt system. Together they dream of being older and making their own decisions. Their friendship emboldens Ahmet, who becomes a target for the ire of Yakup Hodja, the dormitory manager. Hodja resents Ahmet's family wealth, and believes his father has bought his way into the religious leaders' good graces. His cruel treatment of Ahmet escalates until Ahmet's father is forced to take action; Hodja is transferred. Only then, Ahmet recognizes he will never meet his father's expectations. He decides to escape; together with Hakan, they steal a car and run away. What begins as the best day of their lives soon turns dangerous, and Ahmet is faced with a choice. Though neither his previous life nor the oppressive nature of the Yurt feel like home, he has to decide where he belongs.
- DirectorSelman NacarStarsTülin ÖzenOgulcan Arman UsluGulcin Kultur SahinCriminal lawyer Canan has to make a moral choice that will affect the lives of her ailing mother, a judge, and a murder suspect client, whose defense is turning in his favor.
- DirectorEylem KaftanTwo young women are joined by their shared experience of being abused. Their unexpected meeting forms a strong bond which gives them both the strength to take on their abusers in court and to help other young women to seek justice.
- DirectorMohamed Ben AttiaStarsMajd MastouraWalid BouchhiouaSamer BisharatA man who violently breaks free from his banal environment, evading society with its principles, codes and institutions.
- DirectorOlmo SchnabelStarsDario Yazbek BernalJack IrvGerry BednobFollows the affair between the impulsive Alejandro and the college-age pet store employee Jack, exploring the underbelly of New York and a romance that sends them down a rabbit hole of vice.
- DirectorPham Ngoc LanStarsMinh-ChâuXuan An NgoHa-PhuongAfter inheriting a pygmy slow loris from her long-estranged husband, a woman clings to dwindling ties to her past while her niece prepares for her wedding and worries about the future.
- DirectorKyros PapavassiliouStarsMakis PapadimitriouStephania SotiropoulouYiannis NiarrosIn a world where time changes arbitrarily, a couple's relationship is tested as their individual and shared recollections of the past, present and future change unremittingly.
- DirectorAnna BuryachkovaStarsZachary ShadrinArthur AliievAlina ChebanSet in Kyiv in the late 1990s, "Forever-Forever" is an unsettling portrait of the young and rebellious as they navigate love, explore their sexuality, and play cruel games, which never have a winner.
- DirectorManuel Martín CuencaStarsLupe Mateo BarredoFidel SierraCayetano Rodríguez Anglada15-year-old Andrea wants to recover the love of her father, who disappeared from their lives when he divorced her mother. Andrea remembers a loving father and cannot understand why now he does not want to see his children. Tomás and Fidel, her two little brothers, are her tireless companions in this adventure that speaks of love, family and disappointment.
- DirectorAsli ÖzgeStarsDerya ErkenciGönül GezerFaruk ÖzgeA filmmaker daughter documents the imminent demolition of her father Faruk's apartment building in Istanbul. Faruk, who is over 90, increasingly becomes the protagonist.
- DirectorElias BelkeddarStarsReda KatebBenoît MagimelMeriem AmiarOmar, a gangster on the run, tries to lie low for the rest of his life in Algiers to escape his sentence of 20 years in prison by the French authorities.
- DirectorBalojiStarsMarc ZingaYves-Marina GnahouaMarcel Otete KabeyaAfter spending years in Belgium, a young Congolese man returns to his birthplace of Kinshasa to confront the intricacies of his family and culture.
- DirectorEna SendijarevicStarsHayati AzisRenée SoutendijkFlorian MyjerTumultuous events triggered by the death of a Dutch sugar plantation owner who ends up leaving his Indian Ocean island estate to his young illegitimate son - the child of his Indonesian housemaid.