IN HIS FORTRESS (ONUN KALESİNDE), 2023
Türkiye | DCP, Color, 21’ | Turkish
Director: Yasemin Demirci
Cast: Doğu Can, Nezaket Erden, Erdem Şenocak
After her father's passing, the young woman visits his house, where she confronts both his belongings and memories, the grieving process echoing within the home's atmosphere.
SMALL FINDS (KÜÇÜK BULUNTULAR), 2023
Türkiye | DCP, Color, 20’ | Turkish
Director: Sevgi Ortaç
Small Finds takes a look at the universe of ancient city of Olympos, which is transformed by archaeological excavations and opened to new encounters with both sadness and curiosity.
BETWEEN DELICATE AND VIOLENT (ZARAFET VE ŞİDDET ARASINDA), 2023
Türkiye, Holland | DCP, Black&White - Color, 15’ | Turkish
Director: Şirin Bahar Demirel
The film combines archive footage from a family album with animation to explore hand memory and how memories are expressed through art forms like painting and embroidery.
36, 2023
Türkiye | DCP, Color, 10’ | Turkish
Director: Rezan Mir Uğurlu
The film, composed of slide photographs from a promotional catalog prepared for a nuclear power plant in France in the 1980s, invites the audience on an internal journey within this space.
A COMPANIONSHIP (BİR DOSTLUK), 2024
Türkiye | DCP, Color, 10’ | Turkish
Director: Gürkan Yücel
Based on Sabahattin Kudret Aksal's story, the film centers on a woman and a man who isolate themselves in a small room in the vast city burdened by the loneliness.
Istanbul Modern Cinema kicks off May with shorts. Short films offer filmmakers a playground for creative exploration and experimentation, free from commercial pressures.