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Actors: Baki Davrak, Tuncel Kurtiz, Nursel Köse, Nurgul Yesilcay, Hanna Schygulla
Synopsis: The winner of the Best Screenplay award at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, director Fatih Akin's deeply humanistic, multi-layered drama follows the stories of six people -- four Turks and two Germans -- as they realize the meaning of love while facing the harsh realities of the world we live in. Read More
Actors: Hulya Kocyigit, Tuncel Kurtiz, Aykut Oray, Ali Surmeli, Enis Aslanyurek
Synopsis: Set in the Harbiye district of Antioch two months before the military intervention in May of 1960, director Semir Aslanyurek's comedy drama studies the economic and political tensions of the time by focusing on a local family's struggle with dissenting beliefs. As Cemal's (Canan Hosgor) father and Read More
Actors: Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Tuncel Kurtiz, Paola Cortellesi, Boubker Rafik, Roberto Citran
Synopsis: Directed by Carlo Mazzacurati, A Cavallo Della Tigre (Riding the Tiger) is a remake of Luigi Comencini's 1961 film of the same name. It begins in a Milanese parking lot where protagonist Guido (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) falls for Antonella (Paola Cortellesi), who works for a television show. After Read More
Actors: Berhan Simsek, Tuncer Necmioglu, Tuncel Kurtiz, Mazlum Cimen, Bulent Colak
Synopsis: In this political drama from Turkey (which was based on an actual incident), Deniz Gezmis (Berhan Simsek) is a political activist who, as a member of a radical group, helps kidnap four American soldiers, releasing them soon afterward. A few hours later, Gezmis and two of his compatriots are Read More
Actors: Georges Corraface, Marina Kobakhidze, Stephanie Lagarde, Tuncel Kurtiz, Fatah Soltani
Synopsis: Kurdish expert Hiner Saleem (Shero) wrote and directed this French comedy-drama, set inside the 100,000-population Kurdish community in Paris. The original French title translates as "Long Live the Bride...and the Liberation of Kurdistan." Cheto (Georges Corraface) seeks a wife via videotapes Read More
Synopsis: Fans of Turkish auteur Omere Kavur will be most likely to understand and appreciate this arty and highly symbolic account of Kerem, a traveling clock repairman, and the dark, enigmatic Esra, the owner of the clocktower Kerem is hired to repair. Esra seems to be in permanent mourning over the death Read More
Actors: Berhan Simsek, Tarik Tarcan, Sermin Karaali, Tuncel Kurtiz, Erdogan Serez
Synopsis: After bearded Seydo (Tarik Tarcan), leader of Kurdish guerillas, executes a young Kurd because he works at a Turkish prison, Captain Murat (Berhan Simsek) sends soldiers in pursuit of the ragtag rebels. The chase continues into snow-covered mountains where shots start an avalanche. Only three Read More
Synopsis: Based on a grim true story, this downbeat Turkish drama tells of a popular singer whose ex-husband disfigured her with acid and later, after serving a prison sentence, killed her. Belgin is beautiful, young and blonde. She is first seen belly dancing in a sleazy Istanbul bar while her mother taxi Read More
Actors: Philip Zandén, Etienne Glaser, Malin Ek, Björn Kjellman, Gunilla Roor
Synopsis: It is the turn of the century in Russia, and the revolution (at this time not yet a communist one) has sentenced government minister Joel Birkman (Etienne Glaser) to be assassinated for his role in quelling a student rebellion. To that end, they have arranged for one of their number, Jacob (Philip Zanden Read More
Actors: Otto Sander, Dominic Raacke, Annette Uhlen, Tuncel Kurtiz
Synopsis: In the Turkish village he lives in, Orhan, who is a shepherd boy, watches his father killed by a hit-and-run driver whose car has Austrian plates. He hides away in a truck bound for those parts and tracks down the killer. He has somehow gotten hold of a gun, and manages to frighten his father's Read More
Actors: Stellan Skarsgård, Lennart Hjulström, Krister Henriksson, Philip Zandén, Bengt Eklund
Synopsis: This international thriller is allegedly based on a true incident in which Israeli secret agents bearing Lebanese passports killed a Moroccan guest worker living in Sweden because they believed he was a Palestinian terrorist. In the story, Hamilton (Stellan Skarsgard), a Swedish naval officer, is Read More
Actors: Robert Langton-Lloyd, Antonin Stahly-Vishwanadan, Bruce Myers, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Andrzej Seweryn, Georges Corraface
Synopsis: Director Peter Brook collaborates with writer Jean-Claude Carriére for this screen adaptation of the epic, 100,000-stanza Sanskrit poem tracing mankind's quest for universal truth as explored through the ongoing conflict between two warring families - the Pandavas and the Kauravas. Originally a Read More
Actors: Joakim Thastrom, Peter Stormare, Christian Crillan Falk, Maria Granlund, Jacqueline Ramel
Synopsis: This drama concerns the relationship between two brothers, both at first involved in petty crime in one way or another. Kiljan (Joakim Thastrom) is the older of the two siblings who has already changed and is now working at an auto repair shop. His one hope is to steer his younger brother away Read More
Actors: Rami Danon, Makram Khouri, Dan Muggia, Iris Hoffman
Synopsis: Originally titled Hiuch Ha'Gdu, the Israeli-made Smile of the Lamb is set along the battle-torn West Bank. Military governor Makram Khouri tries to flush out some fugitive PLO terrorists by hanging the rotting, stinking carcass of a dead donkey in a village square. Israeli doctor Rami Danon Read More
Actors: Tuncel Kurtiz, Ayse Emel Mesci, Malik Berrichi, Nicolas Hossein, Isabelle Tissandier
Synopsis: Produced in France, The Wall (aka Le Mur) was the last work of Turkish writer/director/political activist Yilmaz Guney. Like most of his best works (e.g. Yol), Guney based the wall on his own unhappy personal experience in his native country. The principal characters are a group of young Read More
Actors: Tuncel Kurtiz, Ayse Emel Mesci, Malik Berrichi, Nicolas Hossein
Actors: Tuncel Kurtiz, Yaman Okay, Nur Surer, Menderes Samancilar
Actors: Tarik Akan, Meral Orhonsay, Tuncel Kurtiz, Kamuran Usluer
Synopsis: Water rights are an issue in any semi-arid country. In Turkey, they are the focus of this drama, based on a true incident. A new administrator (called a "magistrate") has come to work in a village in Adana, in southern Turkey. The villagers hope that he will take up the cudgels to get them some Read More
Actors: Yilmaz Güney, Tuncel Kurtiz, Sema Engin
Synopsis: In this bleak tragedy, a crude and illiterate man who drives a horse-drawn taxi survives his meager existence by hoping each day that this will be the day he wins the lottery. One day his coach is hit by a car, killing one of his two horses and damaging the buggy. Because the automobile driver has Read More
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