Fikret Hakan

Turkey in the 1960s and 1970s was one of the biggest producers of film in the world. In order to keep up with the demand, screenwriters and directors were copying scripts and remaking movies from all over the world. This documentary visits the fastest working directors, the most practical cameramen and the most hardheaded actors to have a closer look into the country's tumultuous history of movie making.

A look inside the story of two newlyweds who are parted from each other and spend the next half-century of their lives trying to reunite.

Laborers of the film industry have decided to march against the new censorship act in 1977. 60 years of silence in cinema was going to be interrupted for good. From actor/actresses to set workers, 400 women and men have started a 5-day-long walk to Ankara. A walk that was conceived with supportive but surprised looks of the public. The documentary tries to picture this forgotten but historical event in the light of the 100th year of cinema.

The story of an illiterate man and his family, whose existence depends on his income as a horse cab driver. When one of his horses is killed by an automobile, and when it is clear that neither justice nor charity will prevail, the man begins a slow slide into despair.

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Deniz is a young, confused, and lovesick computer engineer. He has left his small town and come to Istanbul, where he lives according to his own set of rules. The woman he loves, Lale, is a troubled young woman with a drug addiction. At the end of a night that could be a dream or reality, they wake up together. The fact that he is lying next to the woman he has dreamed of and loves truly astonishes him. The film tells the story of one of those lives that have been completely transformed in an unexpected way, changed by love. Is Deniz caught in a dream he never wants to wake up from, or is he right in the middle of reality?

Ali is 18. His feet are firmly off the ground. The very idea of marriage seems like a game. But the bride's parents are ready and willing. Business ventures will be set up between the families; the arrangement will pay off all round. Ali, meanwhile, is more interested in playing with puppets and dressing up as a rooster for the travelling theatre. His fiancée has only so much patience... So what should his parents do? What was that? Hire a Borrowed Bride? Meaning exactly what? Well just that: borrow a bride, as the title of the film suggests......

Zuhal and Ali Osman live a peaceful, happy life with their two children, but when Zuhal becomes pregnant with a third child, a deep conflict arises—Zuhal wants an abortion, fearing it will disrupt their lives, while Ali Osman strongly believes the unborn child has a right to live. As Zuhal undergoes the procedure, a tragic accident strikes: their children’s school bus crashes, and the couple is devastated to learn that both of their children have died.

The story of how Zonguldak miners took action in 1990-91. Opposing privatization, the miners fought a "bread war" as a result of their joint resistance. The second film in the "Work-Bread-Freedom" trilogy.