Three Seasons A Life Black Sea Highlands
(2010, Turkey, 77´)
This is the story of people living in the wild mountains of Black Sea coast who have been climbing up the misty mountains to feed their cattles for centruies. They are perhaps the last generation to climb up.
Pandora's Box (Pandora’nın Kutusu)
(2008, Turkey/France/Belgium/Germany, 112´)
Two sisters and a brother live in the center of İstanbul today. They are in their thirties and forties, and lead very different lives, self centered on their upper – middle class preoccupations. One day, a phone call brings them together on a voyage through Turkey’s suburbs and villages to the small town in the Black Sea mountains where they were born. Their aged mother, Nusret, has disappeared…
Waiting for the Clouds (Bulutları Beklerken)
(2004 - France/Germany/Greece/Turkey, 92´)
WAITING FOR THE CLOUDS tells Ayse’s tragic story who lives with her older and ailing sister Selma in a small cost town in the Black Sea region . Ayse never married, has dedicated her life to Selma. Their years of co-habitation have created an intense bond between the two sisters. Ayse must now face the harsh reality that she will soon be alone…
Life on Their Shoulders (Sırtlarındaki Hayat)
(2004, Documentary, 38 ´)
LIFE ON THEIR SHOULDERS is the story of Ayhse, Fatma, Havva, Hatice. A short part of their lives. The story of their climb to the plateaus thousands of meters high, under endless rains and in flood, crushed under the heavy load on their backs…
Journey to the Sun (Güneşe Yolculuk)
(1999, Turkey/Germany/Holland, 104´)
A story of friendship, courage and a politically naive man’s transformation into someone
painfully aware of the social realities in contemporary Turkey … Mehmet and Berzan,
two young men from different regions of Turkey bond together as lower – class citizens
in Istanbul.…