Cem Bender
1965 (61 год)
Labyrinth
Tolga Örnek
Timuçin Esen, Meltem Cumbul
A massive explosion rips though a busy street in Istanbul, Turkey. 95 people are dead; 30 Americans and 5 British. The massacre sends shock waves from Turkey to London and Washington, DC. A new terrorist organization is behind the attack. The explosion is just the beginning. Labyrinth' is the code name of the operation conducted by Turkish intelligence to stop a second, more devastating attack that will plunge Turkey, the only democratic Muslim country in the region, into chaos and destroy the fragile balance of the Middle East. After the initial attack, Turkey becomes a battlefront for terrorists and Turkish, British and American intelligence officers. Everyone has his own agenda in the fight that stretches from Istanbul to Eastern Turkey and from Frankfurt to Northern Iraq.
Labyrinth
Evdeki Yabancılar
Dilek Keser, Ulaş Güneş Kaçargil
Fatih Al, Melpo Zarokosta
Agapi, an old Greek woman, returns to Turkey with her granddaughter, Elpida, in hopes of buying back her childhood home, but the new owner, a young Turkish man, is adamantly against selling it. The three strangers begin to share the house trying to come to an agreement, but a friendship between Elpida and the new owner complicates matters.
Strangers in the House
Sessiz - Bê Deng
L. Rezan Yesilbas
Belcim Bilgin, Cem Bender
A woman tries to give a pair of shoes to her husband, who is in prison. The story takes place in Diyarbakır, Turkey in 1984 after the military coup in 1980, where the only language allowed to be spoken in prison is Turkish. The film won “Palme D’or” for short film in Cannes Film Festival 2012.
Silent
Pains of Autumn
Tomris Giritlioğlu
Murat Yildirim, Beren Saat
When a nationalistic wealthy landowner's idealist son falls for a non-muslim prostitute, he finds himself in a conflict between his feelings and politics under the shadow of the events of September 6th-7th in 1955, the Istanbul Pogrom.
Pains of Autumn
Omar ve Biz
Mehmet Bahadir Er, Maryna Gorbach
Hala Alsayasneh, Cem Bender
Ismet is a Turkish soldier, who was on duty at the border as a Commander of the Coast Guard and recently got retired. Now as a civilian, he struggles to communicate with his family and people surrounding him. His only son abandoned him and left to the U.S.
Omar and Us
