Ruhi Sarı

You always tried, always failed; try again, fail again, this time fail better.

The days when Istanbul was occupied as a result of the Armistice of Mudros after the First World War and the Fenerbahce football team won the "Harington Cup".

Three men. From different corners of the crime world: A hired gun, Musta; a con man, Cem; and a thief, Ali. By a twist of fate their paths crosses at Central Station and start to work as a team. But their past won't let them go too faraway...

Ali Osman is a former bully of city of Istanbul. But lately he gives up bully and starts to operate a synthetic pitch. He often meets his old friends, former bullies, too. One day Ali Osman receives a news which is related with his previous passionate life. Then the whole action stats as a chain of events.

Samet, who works as a bouncer in a bar, left home after his father abandoned the family years ago. His mother started living with his brother Emre. After a long time, Samet returns home and tells his brother Emre that he has found their father’s whereabouts and suggests they go together to where their father lives. The two brothers embark on a journey to Konya to confront their past. The other protagonist of the story, Ayşe, leads an ordinary life with her banker husband and seven-year-old daughter Ceren. When her daughter starts school, her encounter with the school’s security guard changes their lives. A secret relationship begins between the two. While Ayşe continues this relationship without fear of being caught, things eventually change. The paths of the two protagonists, Samet and Ayşe, will intersect in an unexpected way.

Kapan tells the story of a wealthy man and his family. Süleyman, one of Antalya's wealthiest men, is very devoted to his children. Their lives are turned upside down by the psychological trauma he experiences following the tragic death of his son Tarık's girlfriend. Without informing his family, Süleyman organizes a competition themed "Truth or Dare," with a prize of 100 million dollars but with death as the consequence. In this competition, there is no other way out but to be honest. Aslı, who learns about the competition her father has organized, will uncover the truth and confront her father.

Gurbuz, a crook in Istanbul's Balat district attempts to defraud a mob leader nicknamed Yellow Kenan and his men and gets killed. But he’s going to be resurrected like Frankenstein, one of the most popular horror figures in horror movies.

Determined to wed his girlfriend, an earnest boyfriend goes off the beaten path to seek the blessing of her father, who has been missing for years.

Mustafa Kemal invites Mehmet Akif to Ankara for prevent the propaganda of the occupier states and to increase the participation of the people in the liberation struggle. Mehmet Akif is set out with his 13-year-old son and encounters many incidents as he moves towards Ankara. Mehmet Akif, who was deeply affected by his experiences and witnesses, tries to write the National Anthem in this process.

Sedat and Fikret, childhood friends, are devoted to the Kadırga Sports Club. The Kadırga Sports Club, a poor club, wants to transfer a footballer named Hakan as a savior. Tevfik Amca, a former member of the club, donates his car for the transfer, but time is needed to sell the car, and the transfer date is approaching, so the sale cannot be delayed. In this situation, Sedat asks for the money from Reşat, the brother of his ex-girlfriend Nazlı. Sedat receives the money in exchange for a promissory note, but during this time, an unexpected situation arises, and he is forced to confront many people.

Hayati and Tezcan lose their parents at a young age and are raised by their father's close friend, Uncle Salih. Uncle Salih inherits a large mansion from his brother, whom he has never met. The news spreads throughout the neighborhood. Upon hearing the news, the neighborhood's most troublesome and notorious resident, Deli Murat, takes advantage of Uncle Salih's advanced Alzheimer's disease and saddles him with a significant debt to pay off his debt to Rıza. Seeing this as a debt of gratitude, Hayati and Tezcan risk themselves by getting involved in dangerous yet comical situations to rescue Uncle Salih from his predicament and turn the situation in their favor.

A secret murder plot at a forest cabin collapses as greed, uninvited guests and the mafia turn the night into a fight for survival.

Gökhan is a journalist. He's on the road, driving from Istanbul to Southwestern Anatolia in order to make a good story for his newspaper. His car breaks down in a wilderness. What's more, his phone runs out of battery. Gökhan waits for help for hours but nobody shows up. After a while, a walking man appears out of nowhere.

Yusuf is a youngster living with his sister and brother in one of Adana’s suburbs. On the roof of the house where they live, he passionately feeds and raises the pigeons bequeathed by his father. He has got a special bond with a female pigeon named Maverdi. His brother forces him to work and to earn money. Yusuf who doesn’t know any other world than the one with his pigeons on the roof will face the labor life and the realities of his neighborhood.

Omnibus of five short films that were shot in the Turkish province of Kars, on the border with Armenia. Among the five directors are three debutants who were chosen to film their stories after winning a scenario contest. The final result is a sympathetic collection of films that remain small and simple: the puppy love between a boy and a girl on their winter trip to school, the memories of a young woman about her mother's response to her first menstruation and bra, and the story of a student who returns to his village, but all too soon flees again for the past that is waiting for him there. The stories take place strikingly often around the cemetery and look at things from the past being revealed. The last contribution to the omnibus film is also significantly called ‘a small truth’.

Reşat, a withdrawn and asocial young man who works at a pirate DVD shop, represses his feelings for the girl next door, and adds excitement to his life with petty theft. The film turns into a thriller when the shadowy Celal, a friend of Reşat's boss, gets shot just after he leaves a package in the shop and Reşat has to make sense of the photo and the gun it contains.

After completing his studies in France, young Ali gets exiled to an Anatolian town, where he becomes a teacher and begins to question his own beliefs.

A village in the Black Sea region is under the influence of a curse. A couple decides to stop the sad story of lovers who have not been able to meet for hundreds of years under the influence of the charm, even if they are the children of enemy families.

Isa is blamed for a robbery. He is badly beaten and given twenty four hours to return the money. Instead of finding the money, Isa finds a gun.

Fikret, who runs an old barber shop inherited from his father, and Taner, a salesman trying to get rich quick, will see their lives completely transformed with the help of Rıza, Fikret's childhood friend who is visually impaired. The most ornate chair in the shop, which Fikret put up for sale to raise funds for his eye surgery, will become the most valuable piece in a shrine where hundreds of people pray and make wishes. Düzgün Söğüş, who is preparing for the elections to become the village headman, will do everything in his power to take advantage of this opportunity.

The story of the legendary musician Ahmet Kaya, who passed away while in exile in Paris, the capital city of France.

Taner is a young inventor living in a small town named Gedelli in the middle of the moor. He had lost his father so he was forced to support his family therefore he was not able to attend the Science High School, to which he was admitted, although he wanted it badly. Taner’s mother always tried to get him married, but Taner had no intention to do it as there was a love in his heart, which he had not been able to forget for years. His childhood sweetheart Dilek.

A therapy-situated series that will explore every day problems of every day people. Based on a book by Dr. Gülseren Buğdayıcıoğlu.

A couple with no kids, four city girls and three country boys, all under the same roof: arguing, fighting and sometimes understanding they are not that much different.

Gülsoys, one of the leading families of Cappadocia, came together after Ateş returned from America. Ateş did not bow to the overwhelming authority of his grandfather Ömer and left the house. After many years, at the request of his mother Gülfem, he returned to his home with his brothers Yaman and Okan to take over and expand the family business from his grandfather. Now is the time to unite for Ateş, Yaman and Okan. After his brother's return, Yaman decides to propose to his lover Feraye. When Yaman was a child, he secretly bought the family heirloom Sapphire ring from his mother and proposed to Feraye. While Feraye and Yaman are counting the days to get married, confessing their great love by risking everything, a tragedy upsets all the balances. Feraye and Yaman are about to get lost on dangerous roads full of love, passion, revenge and tyranny. Ateş will both win new enemies and confront his brothers with the radical decisions he takes to protect everyone he loves and his family.

Dicle finds herself in an agency when she comes to Istanbul dreaming of becoming a filmmaker. There’s only place for stars, ego wars, greed, fame, money, hope and disappointment here. As Dicle struggles to exist in this glamorous world without losing her way... Her broken family ties start to bleed again. Her father who abandoned them before she was born is now one of the sharks of the industry and they are working in the same agency. And the magical lights of cinema start to shed light on Dicle’s first love.

Sidika is the story of Saka family and their young daughter Sidika who live in a poor neighborhood of Istanbul. Sidika was not allowed to go to high school, raised to wait her husband-to-be at her fathers home, not even allowed to leave their house on her own. But she educated herself through books, newspapers and TV. She approaches her life, half-witted older brother, oppressive and alcoholic father and traditionalist mother in a satirical and fun manner along with the current political and sociological events of Turkey and the world. She gazes the world through her window as she hungers for all the intellectual accumulation of the universe.

The fun adventures of two close friends who are dragged into the inextricable monotony of daily life.

In cosmopolitan 1950s Istanbul, a mother with a troubled past works at a nightclub to reconnect with and help the rebellious daughter she couldn't raise.

When Olcay's husband commits suicide and leaves a huge debt behind, Olcay and her teenage daughter, Duru, are forced to move to a slum in Istanbul. They find themselves financially dependent on Olcay's only remaining friend, so Olcay starts to look for a job. Without any degree or experience, she tries to survive doing all sorts of odd jobs. Meanwhile, her neighbors, who are completely different from the people in Olcay's old world, begin to get to like the mother and daughter. Some even fall in love.

Gonca, a high spirited peasant girl, takes the roads to find her sister Yonca, who has a completely different lifestyle, years after their separation at birth.

After getting forced out of her apartment, a young woman moves in with her colleague in a building where all the residents seem to be hiding a dark secret.

A look into relationships in a neighborhood in Istanbul.

Felix is a software developer who works for the department of software at an important anti-virus company. Beside that he is completing the missing parts of software on the games which are produced by game companies, eventually he gets an offer from the world famous game company called R.W games. This offer is about fixing the software errors as usual. What surprises Felix the fact that the game has no error on it. In a short time he realizes that the game can have echos in real life, and nothing will be the same anymore.

Akif Erdem, the physics teacher who is the protagonist of the story, wants to teach his students a “lesson in humanity”. The only thing is – Akif the teacher uses a different teaching method than the teachers we know and are used to. For their last lesson as a class, Akif Erdem holds the students of his 12A class at the Küçükkuyu high school hostage and separates the class from the rest of the school using a bomb. The students and Akif will no longer be able to leave... and Akif the teacher asks the students a question, “Who one among you caused the death of fellow 12A student Kay Örnek?” There is only one way for the young people who have been taken hostage to get out of this situation: to tell the truth!

Inspector Cetin Ikmen, his partner Mehmet Suleyman and Detective Ayse Farsakoglu, solve crimes and experiencing euphoric highs and tragic lows. Each crime story is heavily rooted in the rich and varied culture and history of Istanbul and set against the vibrant, dazzling and frenzied world of modern-day Turkey.

Tutunamayanlar (The Misfits) is a 2020 Turkish absurdist dark comedy set in a quirky Istanbul neighborhood. Tarık — a man who has never held a job in his life — falls head over heels for İrem during a job interview. With nowhere else to go, İrem moves into his neighborhood and begins working at the local book café. What follows is a sharply funny, offbeat slice-of-life comedy about misfits, lovable losers, and the chaotic beauty of going nowhere fast.

Zembilli tells the bittersweet and gripping story of the people of a Yoruk town in the foothills of the Taurus Mountains.