Barış Pirhasan

F Tipi Film

Aydın Bulut, Ezel Akay

Civan Canova, Erkan Can

Nine stories of resistance against solitary confinement of political prisoners in Turkey.

Sawdust Tales

Barış Pirhasan

Hugh O'Conor, Károly Eperjes

Sawdust Tales is a whimsical and timeless parable on survival in hard times and the force of a first love against all odds. In a timeless no-mans land scarred by social decay and imminent war, a circus troupe awaits the arrival of the mysterious Rupert who is to deliver them from danger into a better world. The old and wise tightrope master keeps a watchful, loving eye on his young apprentice who, to his concern, could be drafted into the army at any moment. To make matters worse, the boy falls in love with a mermaid...

Ademin Trenleri

Barış Pirhasan

Nurgül Yeşilçay, Cem Özer

Kıyıdakiler

Erdem Tepegöz, Barış Pirhasan

Anıl Ayvalıoğlu, Antigone Gitana

Coastliners puts the theme of “human rights” together with different stories, and consists of five short fiction films made by internationally acclaimed different directors. We accompany the personal effects of refugees washed ashore, the peculiar story of an assaulted young man, a mother and daughter who take refuge in a house when bombs sound on the Syrian border, a hero stuck in the hurly burly of Istanbul, trying to overcome obstacles; and the her spiritual journey of a pregnant woman trying to return to her village from where she was cast away.