In the dead of night, a group of men—among them, a police commissioner, a prosecutor, a doctor and a murder suspect—drive through the Anatolian countryside, the serpentine roads and rolling hills lit only by the headlights of their cars. They are searching for a corpse, the victim of a brutal murder. The suspect, who claims he was drunk, can't remember where he buried the body. As night wears on, details about the murder emerge and the investigators'...

An aspiring writer returns home after university and finds his ambition at odds with the deferred dreams of his gambling addict father. As his own fantasies mingle with reality, he grapples with the people and the place that have made him who he is.

Opens with an ambitious politician fleeing a hit-and-run accident in the dead of night. Afraid of hurting his election chances, he pays off his chauffeur Eyüp to take the rap. While Eyüp stews in jail, this devil's bargain takes its toll on his brooding son Ismail and restless wife Hacer, who falls into an illicit affair with the politician. Ismail's discovery of his mother's infidelity and Eyüp's suspicions after he gets out of jail crank up the...

Based on historical heroine Queen Tomiris and her cadre of female warriors (the real-life 6th century BCE Amazonians), THE LEGEND OF TOMIRIS recounts the tale of the nomad who overcame tragedy to repel Persia and unite the Great Steppe.

Yusuf and his best friend Memo are pupils at a boarding school for Kurdish boys, secluded in the mountains of Eastern Anatolia. When Memo falls mysteriously ill, Yusuf is forced to struggle through the bureaucratic obstacles put up by the school's repressive authorities to try to help his friend. But by the time the adults in charge finally understand the seriousness of Memo’s condition and try to get him to the hospital, the school has been buried...

At Turkey’s oldest zoo, a lonely zoo keeper and a neglected female staff member form an unlikely bond as they hide the death of the zoo’s oldest inhabitant, an Anatolian leopard, in order to stop the privatization process and fake its escape, they set in motion an absurd charade that spins out of control. In Turkey’s grey and quiet capital, the ghost of the leopard persists.

When they were kids, Bunyamin and his brother Yusuf fell in love with the same girl, Zeliha, but a childish game leads to Zeliha's death. Bunyamin can never forgive himself and face up to his brother, instead he keeps running away from home with excuses. After his graduation, he drifts to Bosnia to help with the discovery of victims' bodies from the mass graves. The emotional pressure of his job brings his past back to him in his dreams, however instead...

Selahattin is a math teacher in his 40s. He has a passion for poetry, lives alone on the lower floor of an apartment building, and is in platonic love with Ms. Alev, a doctor who lives on the top floor. He writes poems on scraps of paper and deposits them secretly in Alev's mailbox. His life soon spins out of control when duplicitous family members try to extort money from him for their business and he hastily ends up in a loveless marriage of convenience....

Hasret has a recurring nightmare from which she disengages every morning. But what she experiences is not a dream – it's memories. As she returns from her job to a flat left to her after her parents' death twenty years earlier, questions from her dreams slowly begin to emerge: did her parents really die in a car crash?

The story is set in 1978 on the Istranca Mountains of Thracia. Known as a healer by the villagers, Cennet's humble and quiet life is changed when she runs into a stranger, Ertan, covered in blood in the garden which she calls "Secret Garden". Killing several people in a skirmish with law enforcement, Ertan has been shot while escaping. While Cennet heals the wounded stranger day by day, love that they cannot prevent begins to emerge despite their...