Şahika Tekand

Hayalimdeki Sahneler aims to explain and analyze scenes from 3 heavily queer coded Turkish films from 80s.

Berna, a theater artist, struggles for the sake of acting only for art at a time when popular culture is dominant. Meanwhile, during a visit to a museum on 'The First Women of History', she is very impressed by the hand-painted portrait of Afife Jale, the first Muslim Turkish actress to appear on stage.

A Turkish watchmaker is employed to mend a village clock that has not worked for some seven years. However, what seems like a simple and un-exciting task is plunged into a web of mystery and intrigue when the watchmaker innocently witnesses the murder of a beautiful woman on his first day in the village.

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An elderly couple invite their adult children to visit their country chateau. Among the children are Omer, his undemonstrative wife who knows about Omer's mistress, and Omer's children. The other son brings his seductive lover, and the daughter, a divorcee, brings her child. Mayhem ensues when their daughter's ex-husband makes a surprise appearance at the house.

Eda (Şahika Tekand) is the owner of a picture gallery. Her husband, Idris (Levent Özdilek), who is a popular poet, is an art consultant. This intellectual couple lives in harmony intellectually, especially in the sexual life of Eda. Because Idris is alcoholic and impotent. When her husband goes to Paris for work, Eda sleeps with her friend Erdal (Mahir Günşıray), one of the friends of the night, with the influence of alcohol. This relationship gradually becomes a sensual passion

1926, Turkey. Anatolia is undergoing a difficult and harsh process marked by turmoil and uncertainty. Alongside the decisive and conscious directives to establish the new infrastructure of the new Turkey, there are also examples of resistance that cause an unstoppable reaction and unhealed wounds. Amidst the political backdrop revealed by this process, which operates with the indifference of a broken clock, individual stories continue to unfold with all their human qualities, and personal conflicts persist in highlighting negativity.

After martial law is declared, Sibel is taken in. Sibel, who has completely lost her self after the torture, tries to hold on to life. But her husband Atilla's questions about what happened in Sibel's custody will become frequent.

The film tells the story of an old sailor and a young girl who takes refuge in his home. Harun is a retired sailor who lives alone in a remote coastal town. One night, a young girl named Güneş takes refuge in Harun's home. Güneş claims she was kidnapped for ransom and escaped, hiding here by chance. She wants to stay at Harun's house until the danger passes. However, when Harun decides to report the situation to the police, Güneş admits her story was a lie and reveals her true tale. Harun will struggle with whether to believe Güneş or not.

The story of a computer programmer who was abandoned by his wife and lives with his son at his sister's house.