An elderly janitor enters the classroom to clean it and sees an unanswered addition problem on the blackboard. The numbers bring back a memory that deeply affects the old man and perhaps changes his future.
Social & External
The people behind it
Hasan Genç
Adam
Yakup Berat İlgar
Çocuk
Mennan Kızıltunç
Öğretmen
Feeling left out after meeting an almost-famous clarinet player, Sercan decides to go on the search of the famous restaurant Resul’s Place. However, on his journey, he gets to know many things about the restaurant, his friends and himself.
The dance of nature, sound and time around an old man.
Three girls are locked in a basement. They have been down there for a long time. One must die in order for the others to leave.
Aylin, who lives with her mother in Istanbul, is continuing her university education. In the harsh conditions of life, they exist with a new "deceptive" business model that suits the desires of today's city dwellers.
The man sits next to a godmother who he owes, for negotiation. The Godmother gives him one last chance to save his own life.
Last letter from a serial killer in distopic Istanbul...
Güneş lost herself after her family's dying on 1999 Istanbul earthquakes. Probably her hearing and seeing ability is not good too. The chaos of Güneş (The sun) is a metaphor for creation of the solar system.
A clown has a children's program, but strange things are happening in this program.
Five short films by five directors based on themes of love and tolerance, each independent of the other. Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Efes Pilsen. The collection includes five short films: Ömer Kavur's "The Meeting," İrfan Tözüm's "Monte Cristo," Yusuf Kurçenli's "Because I Love Her," Erden Kıral's "Moon Stories," and Zeki Ökten's "Always the Same."
A troubled high schooler makes a startling discovery at the bottom of an old swimming pool.
At a nondescript government agency suspended in time, a group of lexicographers are about to settle into their usual routine: the eradication of all unnecessary, objectionable and potentially objectionable words by unanimous vote. Discussions need to be made and decisions reached, by this motley crew, in this gloomy room, for all of humanity, when in walks the new Typist with fresh questions and challenges for the entire group.
It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous Corporal Steiner. Stransky is the only man who believes that the Third Reich is still vastly superior to the Russian army. However, within his pompous persona lies a quivering coward who longs for the Iron Cross so that he can return to Berlin a hero. Steiner, on the other hand is cynical, defiantly non-conformist and more concerned with the safety of his own men rather than the horde of military decorations offered to him by his superiors.
When it is discovered that a young and pretty schoolteacher is a nudist who belongs to a local nudist camp, she is brought up on trial before the local school board and must defend herself against charges of immorality and the questioning of her ability to continue teaching the town's children.
A lonely guy is stealing garbage and then reading people's sex lives by sniffing and analyzing the waste. When his new neighbors introduce themselves to him, he becomes obsessed with the pretty wife next door. The poor girl is unhappy in her marriage and her husband can't get it up for her. When the neighbor stumbles home blind drunk one night, he reveals to that he's a chemist working on an aphrodisiac and gives our hero a sample to try.
This routine effort from cult pinku-eiga director Hisayasu Sato centers around a divorcée who opens a beauty parlor and begins selling sexual services to boost her business.
Cult filmmaker Hisayasu Sato's second comedy of the year, this silly softcore effort stars pretty Nao Kikuchi as a young married woman who takes a job at a call-girl agency with the mistaken belief that it is a maid service. After she is raped on her first assignment, Kikuchi is understandably shocked, but quickly warms to her new career and becomes quite the professional. Unfortunately, her husband soon discovers the true nature of her work.
Russian stop motion animation depicting the court of the Duke and Duchess as they mock and abuse the titular hero.
A cynical Australian Vietnam War veteran runs a sleazy bar in the Philippines. His old flame enters his life again asking for help when her husband, an investigative journalist, is prosecuted by the junta for discovering too much.
Babu works for three underworld dons and must go to prison to protect them. When his sentence is over, he returns home to find that Purnima (his wife), Arjun (his son) and Pooja (his daughter) live a destitute life. When he confronts his bosses, he is beheaded in front of his wife and children, and his daughter is abducted. Purnima (Raakhee) loses her mind, and is hospitalized in a mental hospital. Growing up, Arjun (Akshay Kumar) becomes a high profile vigilante. As for Purnima, she becomes terribly ill and can be saved only if she sees her daughter again. Thus, Arjun decides to re-unite his mother and sister. In order to do so, he must discover the identity of his father's killers.
A young art teacher hopes to be transferred to Istanbul after completing his mandatory duty in a remote village school in Anatolia. After accusations of inappropriate contact with a student surface, his hopes of escape fade and he descends further into an existential crisis.
At an international school in Jakarta, a philosophy teacher challenges his class of twenty graduating seniors to choose which ten of them would take shelter underground and reboot the human race in the event of a nuclear apocalypse.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.
Muharrem faces his life, thoughts, and inner darkness at a party he does not want to attend.
At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.
An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.
An optimistic, talented teen clings to a huge secret: she's homeless and living on a school bus. When tragedy strikes, can she learn to accept a helping hand?
In the streets of Istanbul, ailing waste warehouse worker Mehmet takes a small boy under his wing and must soon confront his own traumatic childhood.
A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.
A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.
A sensitive young man recalls his time in boarding school when the only person who seemed compassionate towards him was his housemaster's wife.
When Dr. Marcus Sommers realizes that he and his troubled, estranged brother David may be prone a fatal brain disease that runs in their family, he decides to make peace with his sibling, and invites him on a trip to the Rockies. There, the brothers bond over their shared enthusiasm for cycling and decide to enter a grueling bike race through the mountains. However, Marcus' health soon begins to fail, and David must compete without his brother at his side.
Like some other kids, 12-year-old Trevor McKinney believed in the goodness of human nature. Like many other kids, he was determined to change the world for the better. Unlike most other kids, he succeeded.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.
A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned to help them, but the young man struggles to adjust to this new life and his feelings of guilt about the brother he left behind.
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
Passionate and innovative teacher Ron Clark leaves his small hometown to teach in one of Harlem's toughest schools. But to break through to the students, he must use unconventional methods, including his ground-breaking classroom rules, to help them reach their potential. Based on a true story.
A down-on-his-luck coach is hired to prepare a team of the best American dancers for an international tournament that attracts all the best crews from around the world, but the Americans haven't won in fifteen years.
