Årets Guldpalmevinder udspiller sig på de anatolske sletter, hvor den tidligere skuespiller Aydin sammen med sin væsentlig yngre, smukke hustru og sin søster driver et hotel og indkasserer penge ved at drive nogle udlejningsejendomme, han har overtaget efter sin afdøde far. Aydin er bedre stillet end de fleste på den udhungrede egn, men det synes han for selvoptaget til at have blik for.
In the rural area around the Anatolian town of Keskin, the local prosecutor, police commissar, and doctor lead a search for a victim of a murder to whom a suspect named Kenan and his mentally challenged brother confessed. However, the search is proving more difficult than expected as Kenan is fuzzy as to the body's exact location. As the group continues looking, its members can't help but chat among themselves about both trivia and their deepest concerns in an investigation that is proving more trying than any of them expected.
A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to America.
Paris, 1960s. Momo, a resolute and independent Jewish teenager who lives with his father, a sullen and depressed man, in a working-class neighborhood, develops a close friendship with Monsieur Ibrahim, an elderly Muslim who owns a small grocery store.
Almanya er det tyrkiske ord for Tyskland. Og det er et ganske andet Tyskland, end det vi kender. I hvert fald som det opleves af Hüseyin og hans familie af gæstearbejdere, der ankommer til landet og konstaterer, at tyskerne spiser små børn og tilbeder en gud på et kors, som de også spiser hver søndag i kirken!
A dramatised documentary about the life of Rumi, a Persian mystical poet whose images of universal love and divine mystery continue to be celebrated more than 700 years after his death.
Elissa's life takes a turn when she meets a mysterious man in her English class and she has to quickly decide between her family and him- and going from family-life to a life on the run is a wild choice to everyone but her.
Ahmet, a Turkish guy in his early twenties visit his grandfather's abandoned mansion located somewhere in the northern Anatolia. Thinking that he would return to where he spent his early childhood, only to find out that the place is now in ruins. When he goes to sleep. An unexpected angel will visit him to give her a blessing of the truth. He wakes up being not the guy he was before.