Murder on the Orient Express
Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.
American Assassin
Following the murder of his fiancée, Mitch Rapp trains under the instruction of Cold War veteran Stan Hurley. The pair then is enlisted to investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on military and civilian targets.
The Promise
Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, a love triangle develops between Mikael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated artist Ana, and Chris, a renowned American journalist based in Paris.
Phases of Matter
Phases of Matter follows living and inanimate residents of a teaching hospital in Istanbul, moving from the operating room to the morgue, between life and other states, the real and the virtual.
Beautiful Men
Three balding brothers travel to Istanbul to get a hair transplant. Stuck with each other in a hotel far from home, their insecurities grow faster than their hair.
Ses: İstanbul
Safe Space
This documentary discusses how LGBTIQA+ people experience the streets and nightlife of Istanbul in terms of a safe space through the unique, yet common experiences of queers from different backgrounds, and focuses especially on nightlife and the issue of safe space there, which is a very critical area for queers to exist as they are.
Other Voices: Florence Konstantina Delight
Meet the Istanbul drag artist defying exclusion, claiming strength, identity, and resistance on the city's streets by day.
Ye Live at Atatürk Olympic
What Is Nusret Afraid Of
A man confronted with the fear of being forgotten after death resorts to various absurd methods to be remembered after he dies, but ultimately realizes that the way to achieve lasting impact is not through being remembered by others, but through the moments and feelings he experienced.
Once Upon a Time in Cyberspace
In 2087, Ayla escapes reality by living inside cyberspace. When a government AI summons her to Istanbul to identify a dead man, her journey turns into a confrontation with memory, reality, and the truth of her own existence. Set in 2087, in a future where a lifetime can be compressed into seconds through technology, Once Upon a Time in Cyberspace tells the story of a woman trying to escape reality and a task that forces her to travel from Izmir to Istanbul. The film explores the pain of being the one left behind—losing people, places, and moments, and continuing to live within memories.
Unknown
A girl, troubled by thoughts of her future, fades into the overwhelming darkness of nighttime Istanbul
Hano of Balat
Hano of Old Balat wakes up in New Balat. Startled by the transformation, her journey to locate raki—on which she meets many a local and good samaritan—ensues.
büyükada
An atmospheric meditation on the weight of memory and the echoes of a previous life. A man returns to the winding streets of Büyükada, seeking a confrontation with the ghosts of his own past. Between the salt air and the island’s fading shadows, he discovers that some places never let you leave.
I Miss (The Istanbul I Don't Remember)
Someone born in the 1990s, who never actually lived in 1990s Istanbul, can only long for what they’ve seen in old videos. But how do you yearn for moments you never experienced... or why do you? In this nostalgic Istanbul we don’t remember, a digital passage unfolds from the European side to the Asian side, told only through the footage recorded on the cameras of those who once lived it.
I Remember
Döngü
The Substitutes
More than a quarter of a million Syrian refugee children live in Istanbul, Turkey. Not all of them have access to education. Two sisters decide to bring school to the street.
Constantinople
1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.