UÄŸur Polat – MRQE

Anadolu Leopari

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

At Turkeys oldest zoo, a lonely manager and a neglected female officer form an unlikely bond: as they hide the death of the zoos oldest inhabitant, an Anatolian leopard, in order to stop the privatization process and fake its escape, they set in motion an absurd charade that spins out of control. In Turkeys grey and quiet capital, the ghost of the leopard persists.

Eve Dönüs: Sarikamis 1915

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Inhospitable at the best of times, the snow-covered mountainscapes of Eastern Anatolia constituted a fatal frontier for many war exiles after the battle of Sarikamish in 1915, and provides a canvas laced with beauty and threat for this bone-chilling survival yarn, the superb debut feature of Alphan Eeli. Starting out with three characters a refugee mother and daughter and their grizzled guide the film traces their daunting trek across this barren terrain to safety, with the Russians encroaching and other stragglers, including a pair of wounded, frostbitten Ottoman soldiers, all orbiting the same burnt-out village they find in their path. Puncturing its aura of ghostly impasse with some shocking narrative reversals, and constantly prickling with the mutual dread of strangers in gruelling extremes, the movie stakes out hugely credible ground next to established Eastern Front war classics (In the Fog, Come and See) while remaining thoroughly its own beast. (Source: LFF programme)

Filler ve çimen

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Elephants and Grass (Turkish: Filler ve Çimen) is a 2001 Turkish drama film, written and directed by Dervi Zaim, about six different stories that merge into a common theme. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on January 5, 2001, won awards at film festivals in Antalya and Istanbul, including the Golden Orange Behlül Dal Jury Special Award.